Act Two Flashcards
Their candles
are all out.
Banquo commenting on how there are no stars
Subversion of fate
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle towards my hand?
Come, let me clutch thee
such an instrument I was to use.
LM instrumental metaphor
wicked dreams abuse
Dream metaphor foreshadows their lack of sleep later on in the play
Dreams symbolise innocence
Tarquin’s ravishing strides
Wants to prove himself as a man to LM
Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
Rhyming couplet
Imperative
Summons = Witch like language
Heaven or to hell - Subversion of DROK
Knell - a funeral bell
I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry.
Jacobeans believed that chirping of crickets was a herald of death.
could I not pronounce “Amen?”
stuck in my throat
Lack of holiness, sinned
Sleep no more:
Macbeth does murder sleep
Macbeth shall sleep no more
Infirm of purpose!
Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead
Are but as pictures; ‘tis the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil.
Will all great Neptune’s ocean
wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No: this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incardinine,
Making the green one red.
My hands are of your colour, but I shame
To wear a heart so white.
O horror, horror, horror
Shock at Duncan’s death
Tripartite
Echophonesis
O gentle lady,
Tis not for you to hear what I can speak.
His silver skin
lac’d with his golden blood
And his gash’d stabs look’d like a breach in nature
