Illusions Vs Reality Flashcards
(14 cards)
What were the five hallucinations in the play
The dagger the knocking the voice telling Macbeth he will not sleep banquets ghost and lady Macbeths blood stained hands
What can we not tell about these hallucinations
If Shakespeare wanted them to be percieved as real or not, we can only tell they are physociological realities for the Macbeth
What is Shakespeare trying to show us with these hallucinations
Guilt is inescapable
What does the knocking and no sleep voice foreshadow
Macbeth will never be at peace again
Deception is a …… thought the play
Motif
Three duplicitous things characters did
Lm encourages me to present himself innocently
Mb lies to banquet to find where he will be and that he hasn’t been thinking of the witches and what they said
Mb keeps truths eventually from lm
Three traitorous acts that turn out to be ironic
Macbeth killing macondald
Previous thane of Cawdor being a traitor
Macduff accused of tratory
‘Three traitorous acts that turn out to be ironic ‘ how do they turn to be ironic
Macbeth turn out to be a traitor after being loyal enough to kill one.
Becomes enough treasonous thane of Cawdor
He is killed by so called traitor Macduff
What’s shakespeares message about being deceitful
Those who deceive will no not prosper , end up in a viscous cycle of lying
What does lady Macbeth ask for from evil spirits
Give her masculine characteristics and take away he motherly feminine traits and to have no remorse for evil acts
How does lady Macbeth question Macbeths mascukitny
Describes him in femine terms ‘too full of the milk of human kindness ‘ and questions his masculinity ‘when you first do it, then you were a man’
There are …… in men’s …….
Daggers smiles
Shakespeare presents a atypical relationship so the audience will find the power dynamic
Unnatural
How does Macbeth describe the dagger
Fatal bison
False creation
A dagger of the mind
