Deceit

Question 1

Fair is foul, and foul is fair’. (Witches)

Answer 1

CRILD:
L = paradox. That which is good can be evil and vice-versa. The prediction that MB will become king seems to be good but leads him to commit evil

Question 2

Stars hide your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires.’ (Macbeth)

Answer 2

CRILD:
L= rhyming couplet. Light symbolizes heaven. Adjectives ‘black’ represents evil; ‘deep’ how deep his ambition is BUT knows killing King is morally wrong.
C= DRK. Killing a king = act against God

Question 3

Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it.’ (Lady Macbeth)

Answer 3

CRILD:
L = metaphors. Serpent represents sin and evil. D = LMB like Eve in Genesis tempting MB to commit sin.
C = James I had a medal struck bearing a flower and snake to commemorate discovery of Gunpowder plot. R = Jacobean audience would recognise this. Shows murderers like MB will be discovered & punished.

Question 4

There’s daggers in men’s smiles’. (Donalbain)

Answer 4

CRILD:
L = metaphor. Malcolm and Donalbain realise another Thane murdered their father. They cannot trust anyone and must flee to safety

Question 5

‘I have a strange infirmity’ (Macbeth

Answer 5

CRILD:
LMB and MB lie and claim MB seeing a ghost is because he suffers from fits and has done since childhood. They are trying to conceal the murder of Banquo.
R = audience despise MB for lying and for murdering an innocent friend

Question 6

‘Juggling fiends’ (Macbeth

Answer 6

CRILD:
L = adj – knows the witches have tricked him and he can be defeated; noun – shows he knows they are evil and have led him to commit evil.
C = warns of dangers of witchcraft; James I wrote ‘Daemonologie’ on the subject