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1
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Paradox to show witches trick us.
Act 1 scene 1 - the witches speaking of something ugly (themselves) becoming something beautiful (they offer predictions on Macbeth).

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“Fair is foul and foul is fair.”

2
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Polysyndetic list.

Word repeated - significantly - 3 times to exaggerate greed of women.

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“Munched and munched and munched.”

3
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Links from Act 1 Scene 1 paradox, now to Macbeth saying similar things to the witches.

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“So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”

4
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Macbeth begins to show traits a leader shouldn’t have like indecisiveness.
He can’t act too suspicious and guilty, yet can’t act too happy and confident.

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“Cannot be ill, cannot be good”

5
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Lady Macbeth uses a metaphor to describe how easy it is to manipulate Macbeth into doing as she says.
The main idea (the seed) in Macbeth’s head and she waters it with her own ideas to help it grow and develop further.

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“I may pour my spirits in thine ear.”

6
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Lady Macbeth desires the devil to make her all of the things a woman is not and to strip her of the soft and caring features.

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“unsex me.”

7
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Lady Macbeth is clever and knows she has to put on a front to hide the “serpent” beneath her skin.

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She claims to need to look like “the innocent flower”

8
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Act 1 scene 3 Banquo requests a look into the future for his children (the idea of fertility and passing on royalty through blood), complete inversion in Act 3 Scene 1.

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“a look into the seeds of time”

9
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Act 3 Scene 1 - growth semantic field reminded of Macbeth unable to have children and the throne was not meant to be his or his family’s.

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“No son of mine succeeding.”

10
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Lady Macbeth is unnatural and not worthy of God’s creations (children).
In renaissance times only God had the right to destroy things, however Lady Macbeth had other things in mind if it is what she had promised.
To go back on a promise would be a weakness.

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“Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn”

11
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Prostitutes named for selling their bodies in renaissance times just to gain enough to provide for themselves, if need be having to resort to killing the offspring created in the act as of no secure home or life style.
‘Evil’.
One sided argument, no other potential reasoning.

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“birth-strangled babe ditch-delivered by drab”

12
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Foreshadowing Macbeth to protect his head in a cauldron reading.

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“An armed head”

13
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What is hamartia?

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Hamartia is the fatal flaw of a character which leads to their demise.

14
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What did King Duncan say to Macbeth’s victory?

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“What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.”

15
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Why did Lady Macbeth claim she couldn’t kill King Duncan?

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“Had he not resembled my father, I would’ve done’t myself.”

16
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What did the witches say would happen to Banquo?

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“Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none”

17
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What three things did the witches predict Macbeth would become?

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Thane of Glans
Thane of Cawdor
King of Scotland

18
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Banquo linked to planting seeds.

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“take a look into the seeds of time.”

19
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Witches rhyming.

Shows evil, always casting spells.

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“Fair is foul and foul is fair, hover through the filthy air”

20
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Macbeth only confident when filled with alcohol and regrets it when sober

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“Was the hope drunk?”