Macbeth Flashcards
(29 cards)
[Macbeth] context
Seven deadly sins
Jacobean era
King James I
Daemonology
Gender roles/Role of women
Fear of Regicide
Witchcraft
Nobiliy
Great chain of being
[Macbeth] themes
Deceit
The Corrupting Power of Unchecked Ambition
The Relationship Between Cruelty and Masculinity
Ambition
Guilt
Children
Persuasion
Nobility
Witchcraft
The super natural
Macbeth themes
Hubris resulting in downfall
Heroism
Ambition
Corruption
Deceit
Macbeth quotations
“Nothing is but what is not.”
- Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 3)
“Blood will have blood.”
- Macbeth (Act 3 Scene 4)
“How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!”
- Macbeth (Act 4 Scene 1)
Macbeth key character moments/narratives
Killing king Duncan
Lady Macbeth themes
Gender roles
Ambition
Fate
Family
Violence
Lady Macbeth quotations
“Come you spirits, That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here.”
-Lady Macbeth (Act 1, Scene 5)
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”
-Lady Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 1)
“What’s done cannot be undone.”
-Lady Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 1)
Lady Macbeth key character moments/narrative
Manipulating Macbeth
Guilt overcoming her
The Witches themes
Supernatural
Manipulation
Corruption
symbolise evil and corruption
The witches quotations
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”
-Three Witches (Act 1 Scene 1)
“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.”
-Second Witch (Act 4 Scene 1)
“A deed without a name.”
-Witches (Act 4 Scene 1)
The witches key character moments/narrative
Telling Macbeth the prophecies
Telling Banquo the prophecy
King Duncan themes
Ambition
Guilt
Kingship
Ambition
King Duncan quotations
“Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.”
-King Duncan (Act 1 Scene 4)
“What bloody man is that?”
-King Duncan (Act 1 Scene 2)
‘valiant cousin, worthy gentleman’
-King Duncan (Act 1 Scene 2)
King Duncan key character moments/narrative
His killing
Banquo themes
Nobel
Honour
Loyality
Banquo quotations
“Or have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?”
-Banquo (Act 1 Scene 3)
“What! can the devil speak true?”
-Banquo (Act 1 Scene 3)
“If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not.”
-Banquo (Act 1 Scene 3)
Banquo key moments/narrative
He has a prophecy
Killing the Banquo
He is a ghost in the dining hall
Macduff themes
Revenge
Honour
Loyality
Macduff quotations
“Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.”
-Macduff (Act 5 Scene 6)
“Bleed, bleed, poor country!
Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,
For goodness dare not check thee.”
-Macduff (Act 4 scene 3)
Macduff key character moments/narratives
Family’s murder
Loyality to Malcolm
Fleance themes
Fleance quotations
Fleance key character moments/narratives
Malcolm themes
He is nobel
juxstaposes Macbeth
