Macbeth Flashcards
(11 cards)
“Heat opressed brain”
“Something wicked this way comes”
“The instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray’s in deepest consequence
“Smoked with bloody execution… Unseamed him from the nave to th’chops”
Macbeth in the battlefield is a savage and ‘from the nave to th’chops’ shows how he cuts from the belly button to the chin.
Witches were tactful in choosing macbeth because of the way he fights
Also shows Lady macbeths tactfulness because she masculinity meant to macbeth in a patriarchal society.
“In thunder, lightning or in rain?”
Symbolism:
Foreshadowing:
“You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.”
“Unsex me here”
“Look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t”
“Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown.”
“Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake / thy gory locks at me”
“Brief candle”,”Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player”
