Macbeth Flashcards
(14 cards)
bade him farewell
ironic because he appears to be innocent and unwilling-of murdere but concise - malicious intent his the lack of sympathy - slightly disturbing
by the pricking of my thumbs something wicked this way comes
Macbeths entrance right after reveals he is in fact the “wicked” one - he is inherently evil which is why he requires minimal persuasion to kill Duncan - witches never explicitly tell him to murder Duncan nut only imply he will be king - he does the on his own accord
a barren septre
a punishment for his unsurped power - experiences a biological rejection to continue this corrupted lineage → not divinely ordained by God
being appointed the throne and going against god is futile unless you are the divinely appointed king
symbolic of his growing paranoia and disatstifaction
- a warning to ambitious nobles who are entertaining the idea of regicide -> they will experience a reign of unfufilment
“so foul and fair a day I have not seen”
verbal mimicry → becomes a vessel for their misconduct
- a materialism of Macbeths inner thought s + desire → equivocations are roscharch which macbeth uses to project his own violent desires
vapours minion
- noun minion portrays his susceptibility to the witches → am marionette in the witches master plan
elevates him at the beginning of the play to give him somewhere to fall from
dead butcher
animalistic connottation
“I am in blood steppes in so deep”
attempts to justify his addiction
“’Tis said they eat each other.”
symbolic of how the natural order has been disturbed by the death of the rightful king → no unusual events occur after Macbeths death
I am afraid to think what I have done”
All an act / facade - contrast of reveals isn’t foreign to macbeth
- complete corruption of masculinity → beielifs of violence synonymous to masculinity indocrintation of lady macbeth
- how humiliation of insecure macbeth cause him to commit horrors in his desire to prove worthiness to lady macbeth → who bullies and implants self doubt
why do I yield to such suggestion with doth unfix my hair” -make my seated heart knock at my ribs”
- Elizabethan cosmology → familiar with there Jacobean audience to demonstrate the violation regicide has against nature
- Demonstrates both physical and mental rejection at the thought of regicide
- symbolic of his own moral conflict serves as an warning from God
- biological resistance → it is out off order
- divine monarchs are conduct to which Gods grace enters the world → the lack of this creates wasteland; hence chaos in Macbeths life
“I heard a voice cry sleep no more
disturbed by guilt and imprisoned with restlessness → the consequence for his usurped power
“be innocent of the knwoeldge dearest chuck”
- employs feline epithets to belittle her as she did to him
- compew
our fears in banqou stick deep”
- employs archetype of the brother murder → biblical reference to cain and able → siginfiy the immorality and jealous intent behind his actions
- resentful desire to eradicate banqou, who Macbeths knows is a projection of his positive traits
“life is but a poor player”
“but” → the only interpatration he has on life
exhibits nihilistic views after lady Macbeths death
anagnorisis → he recongises he is a victim - a mere pawn in the witches game
