macbeth Flashcards
(21 cards)
6 quotes about ambition
-Two truths are told/As happy prologues to the swelling act/Of th’imperial theme A1S3
-Thou wouldst be great/Art not without ambition, but without/The illness should attend it A1S5
-I have no spur/To prick the sides of my intent, but only/Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself/ And falls on th’other A1S7
-To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus A3S1
-‘eye wink at the hand’1.4
-‘the very 1stlings of my heart shall be the 1stlings of my hands’
‘Two truths are told
As happy prologues to the swelling act
Of th’imperial theme’ analysis
-eagerness to believe witches, ambition
-theatrical language, views life as a play
-sees himself becoming more prominent + powerful
-‘instrument’ describes murder weapon
‘Thou wouldst be great
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it’ analysis
-shows LM understanding of M
-must be without morals to act on ambition
-its a plague to be reckless
‘I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself
And falls on th’other’ analysis
-knowledge of dangers of ambition
-horse-riding metaphor
-consequences of overreaching ambition
-‘I must fall down, or else o’erleap’ earlier
‘To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus’ analysis
-M feels he must continue on this path to feel safe
-ambition never stops
-‘Stepp’d in so far that should I wade no more Returning were as tedious as go o’er’
3 quotes on guilt
-‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine’ A2S2
-‘Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold Thou hast no speculation in those eyes’ A3S4
-‘There’s knocking at the gate…What’s done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed.’ 5.1
‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand?
No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine’ analysis
-symbolises guilt
-hyperbole
-distance from God, Roman
-sin, unable to remove, will always be viewable
‘Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold
Thou hast no speculation in those eyes’ analysis
-tries to convince himself that B isn’t there
-focus on sight, M always seems afraid at witnessing his actions, furthered here
‘To bed, to bed.
There’s knocking at the gate. Come, come, /
come, come, give me your hand. What’s done
cannot be /
undone. To bed, to bed, to bed.’ analysis
-‘gate’, porter, hell, foreshadows her death
-desperation
-acceptance, regret?
-asleep, weakness, D
-commands, reliving her power
5 quotes on blood symbolism
-‘Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,
Or memorize another Golgotha, I cannot tell’ 1.2
-‘Out, damned spot! Out, I say! who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him’ 5.1
-‘Blood will have blood…I am in blood Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er.’ 3.4
-‘My hands are of ur colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white’
‘Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,
Or memorize another Golgotha, I cannot tell’ analysis
-compare to Jesus, died for sins
-Christianity
-when M fights for D he is holy, killing sinners
-when M fights for ambition he becomes sinner
‘Out, damned spot! Out, I say! …
who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him’
-hell, sin
-hallucinates blood, guilt
-contrast between earlier certainty + current turmoil
-luxury of hindsight
‘Blood will have blood…
I am in blood
Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o’er.’
-karma, violence breeds violence, links to ‘bloody instructions..being taught .. plague th’inventor’
-current forces him, must keep moving, ‘Neptune’s ocean’
quotes on masculinity
-‘unsex me here..fill me… of direst cruelty’
-‘when u durst do it, then u were a man’
-‘God’s soldier be he’
-‘I must also feel it as a man…
-‘grief that does not speak Whispers the o’erfraught heart + bids it break’
3 quotes for light + dark imagery
-‘stars hide ur fires, Let not light see my black and deep desire’1.4
-‘a light, a light’ abt B
-‘out, out brief candle’
5 quotes for regency
-‘His silver skin laced with his golden blood’
-‘The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood is stopped’
-‘untitled tyrant bloody-sceptred’
-‘blessings hang about his throne, That speak him full of graces’
-‘our country sinks beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds.. each day a new gash is added’
6 Lady M + MD quotes
-‘take my milk for gall’
-‘when our actions do not our fears make us traitors’ MD
-‘a lil water clears us of this deed’
-‘look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t’
-‘all is fear + nothing is the love’ MD
-‘Here’s the smell of blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand’
5 quotes for M
-‘bloody, luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful, sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin that has a name’
-‘tyrant whose sole name blisters out tongue’
-‘dead butcher’
-‘yellow leaf’
-‘the mind i sway by + the heart i bear shall never sag w/doubt nor shake w/fear’
3 quotes for clothing imagery
-‘He cannot buckle his distemper’d cause within the belt of rule’
-‘his title hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief’
-‘why do u dress me in borrow’d robes’
quotes for medicine imagery
-‘medicine of our sickly weal, + w/him pour we in our country’s purge each drop of us’
-‘I am sick at heart’
-‘cure this deadly grief’
-‘the water of my land find her disease’
quotes for D + M + nature
-‘plant thee… make thee full of growing’
-‘dew the sovereign flower + drown the weeds’
-‘stabs looked like a breach in nature’
-‘fruitless crown.. barren sceptre’
