Duality

Question 1

Ts1: LMB catalysed MB’s duality, encouraging him to become a deceitful murderer after he hides his ambition to become king.

Answer 1

‘Stars hide your fires…Let not light see my back and deep desires’
‘Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it’

Question 2

Ts2: MB’s duality is presented in him realising he has a moral sensibility and therefore struggling with his conscience

Answer 2

‘Heat oppressed brain’
‘Bellona’s bridegroom’
‘Brave macbeth… disdaining fortune’
‘Rapt’

‘His virtues will plead like angels against the deep damnations of his taking off’
‘I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent… only vaulting ambition’

Question 3

Ts3: The witches equivocation (ambiguity/duality/don’t tell him the full story) is an important part of the deceit that leads to MB’s downfall

Answer 3

‘There’s daggers in men’s smiles’
‘I have a strange infirmity’
‘Juggling fiends’
‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’

Question 4

‘Heat oppressed brain’

Answer 4

L= metaphor
Heat. Friction causes heat. Symbolises friction in his brain so the conflict in his conscience and his psychological suffering.

Question 5

Quotes analysis

Answer 5

Most in deceit crild poster

Question 6

Ts4: M and Donalbain sense duality and flee when they realise one of the Thanes murdered Duncan.

Answer 6

‘There’s daggers in men’s smiles’