Important Quotes Flashcards

(28 cards)

1
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What quote shows Macbeth trying to hide his true self

A

Let not light see my back and deep desires

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What quote shows lady Macbeth is worried Macbeth is too weak

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It is too full of the milk of human kindness

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3
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What quote shows Macbeth recognises his ambition is running away from him

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Vaulting ambition which overleaps itself

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4
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What does Macbeth say when he sees the dagger

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Is this a dagger which I see before me

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5
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What quote shows lady Macbeth believes they can get rid of the evidence

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A little water clears us of this deed

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6
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What quote shows Macbeths mind deteriorating

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O full of scorpions is my mind

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7
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What is Macbeth’s hamartia

A

His vaulting ambition

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8
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What is Macbeth’s catharsis

A

His destructive obsession with kingship

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9
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What are some words to describe Macbeth

A

Ambitious
Muderrer
Tyrannical
Impulsive

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10
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What are some words to describe lady Macbeth

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Manipulative
Dominant
Remorseful

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11
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What is purgatory

A

Mental suffering

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12
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What does the vision of the dagger show

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The horror of what’s to come

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13
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What does Macbeth become

A

Suicidal and isolated

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14
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What is Macbeth’s first sine of ambition

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Prince of Cumberland that is a step in which I must overleap

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15
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What shows lady Macbeth’s guilty conscious

A

Out damned spot

Washing hands

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16
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What shows lady Macbeth manipulating Macbeth

A

When you durst do it then you were a man

17
Q

What are the witches described as

A

Instruments of darkness

Secret, black, midnight hags

18
Q

What shows pathetic fallacy

A

Nature seems dead

19
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What shows lady Macbeth’s ambition

A

Spirits unsex me here

20
Q

What shows Macbeth being plagued by spirits

A

Sleep no more

21
Q

What could the dagger be a sign of

A

Macbeth’s paranoid imagination

22
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What shows lady Macbeth wanting to be cruel by summoning spirits

A

The crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty

23
Q

What does Macbeth say when he sees Banquos ghost

A

Hence horrible shadow

24
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What does lady Macbeth say when sleepwalking to show she feels guilty (about perfumes)

A

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand

25
What shows lady Macbeth will never be rid of guilt
What will these hands never be clean
26
What shows Macbeth changing his mind about killing Duncan
We will proceed no further in this business
27
What does Macbeth think the dagger is
Fatal vision Or A false creation
28
What is Macbeth's worst moment
Telling people to kill Macduffs wife and children And telling people to kill banquo and fleance