Macbeth Flashcards
(32 cards)
‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’
Paradox
‘So foul and fair- a day I have not seen’
Macbeth mirrors the witches paradox
‘Noble Macbeth’
Macbeth is a war hero
‘Unsex me here’
LM wants to become an unnatural women
‘Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires,
Macbeth’s desires are evil, he is keeping his ambition a secret.
‘Too full o’th milk of human kindness’
Emasculation
‘Your hand, your tongue: look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t’
Deception, Juxtaposition
‘And live a coward in thine own esteem’
Subversion of gender roles, emasculating language
‘You would be so much more the man’
Manipulation
‘What cannot you and I perform upon th’unguarded Duncan?’
Making regicide sound easy
‘I Dream’d last night of the three weird sisters’
Sleep is affected by the supernatural
‘Is this a dagger that I see before me’
Hallucinating due to insanity
‘And on thy blade and dudgeon goûts of blood’
Guilt of regicide before he has even committed it
‘Shall sleep no more: Macbeth shall sleep no more’
Reference to sleep
‘A little water clears us of this deed’
Juxtaposes with LM later attitude
‘‘Tis unnatural’
Regicide has completely changed the world
‘Darkness strangles the travelling lamp’
World is consumed in darkness
‘For banquo’s issue have I fil’d my mind’
Poisoned and destroyed his mind, links to mental suffering
‘What’s done is done’
Lack of guilt
‘With thy bloody and invisible hand’
Guilt and stain of regicide
‘Are you a man?’
Emasculating
‘I am a man again’
Links his masculinity to Banquo leaving
‘It will have blood they say: blood will have blood’
Cyclical nature of the play
‘Tyrants feast’
First reference of Macbeth as a tyrant
