Macbeth Flashcards
Macbeth being seen as the typical brave man he was expected to be
Duncan - ‘For brave Macbeth - well he deserves the name - confronted him with a brandished steel”
Hamartia in Macbeth (his fatal flaw)
Macbeth - ‘I have no spur to prick to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on th’other’
Lady Macbeth reaching out to the three spirits for spiritual power
‘Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here’
Lady Macbeth as manipulating and crafty
‘look like th’innocent flower, but be the sperpent under’t’
Macduff worried about Scotland under Macbeth’s leadership
‘Bleed, bleed, poor country!
Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,
For goodness dare not check thee.’
Banquo’s final words urging Fleance to avenge him
‘O treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!
Thou may’st revenge – O slave!’
Duncan’s exclamation and appreciation of Macbeth
‘O valiant cousin! Worthy gentlemen!’
Duncan’s comment foreshadowing and contrasting’s Macbeth’s later comments
‘Signs of nobleness, like stars, shall sign on all deservers.’
Macbeth revealing his evil intentions and juxtaposing Duncan
‘Stars, hide your fires,
Let not light see my deep and dark desires’
The witches first prophecy
“All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor. All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!.”
Lady Macbeth sleepwalking, weakened by guilt
“Out damned spot” - she has gone insane, contrast to beginning of play, ‘damned’ associating blood with going to hell
“What’s done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed!”
Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth about his guilt
“O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!”
The witches meeting with Hecate
“And you all know, security, is mortals’ chiefest enemy.”
Duncan arriving at Macbeths castle
“See, see, our honoured hostess”
Macbeth murders Duncan and feels guilt
“Methought I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more, Macbeth does murder sleep’”
