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1
Q

what does the quote ‘something wicked this way come’ emphasises?

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  • emphasises that Macbeth is more evil than them and represents dehumanisation.
2
Q

‘Macbeth, beware Macduff, beware the Thane of Fife. dismiss me. Enough’

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  • foreshadowing that Macbeth will kill Macduff

- siclical nature of how the play ends.

3
Q

‘be bloody, bold and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man-

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… for none of women born shall harm Macbeth’

4
Q

‘great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane Hill, shall come against him’

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  • manipulating through equivocation

- convinced invincible.

5
Q

‘damn’d all those that trust them’

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  • element of irony

- damning himself.

6
Q

‘the very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand.

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-tyrant

7
Q

‘his wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls,

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… that trace him in his line: no boasting like a fool;’