Macbeth: Deception Flashcards
Act 1 Scene 1
fair is…
GOOD QUOTE
‘fair is foul and foul is fair’
- DECEPTION
- witches meet in Act 1 Scene 1 to discuss
- LNK when the battles lost and won
- EQUIVOCATION - Catholics at the time, banned
Second Witch
Act 1 Scene 3
Macbeth foul day
GOOD QUOTE
‘So foul and fair a day I have not seen’
- DECEPTION, NATURE
- LNK Witches fair is foul and foul is fair, battle
Macbeth
Act 1 Scene 4
mind building
GOOD QUOTE
‘There’s no art/ To find the mind’s construction in the face’
- DECEPTION
- DEV ‘He was a gentleman on whom I built/An absolute trust’
- talking about former thane of Cawdor
Duncan
Act 1 Scene 4
stars fires
GOOD QUOTE
‘Stars, hide your fires/Let not light see my black and deep desires’
- DECEPTION, LIGHT/DARKNESS, VIOLENCE
- talking about his desires for the throne
Macbeth
Act 1 Scene 5
flower serpent
GOOD QUOTE
‘Bear welcome in your eye…Look like th’innocent flower/But be the serpent under’t’
- BIBILICAL IMAGERY OF SNAKE
- DECEPTION, SNAKES
- LM convinces M to man up
Lady Macbeth
Act 1 Scene 3
macbeth foul and fair
GOOD QUOTE
’ So foul and fair a day I have not seen’
- DECEPTION, NATURE
- LNK witches foul and fair
- Macbeth first line
Macbeth
Act 1 Scene 3
face like a book
‘Your face, my thane, is a book where men/may read strange matters’
- DECEPTION
- LM convincing M to do it
Lady Macbeth
Act 1 Scene 7
false face and heart
GOOD QUOTE
’ False face must hide what the false heart doth know’
- DECEPTION
- LNK innocent flower
- LM suggests to M to do the plan
Lady Macbeth
Act 2 Scene 3
daggers in smiles
GOOD QUOTE
‘There’s daggers in men’s smiles; the nearer in blood/ The nearer bloody’
- DECEPTION, BLOOD, FAMILY, VIOLENCE
- Duncan has just been murdered
Donalbain
Act 3 Scene 1
foul play
GOOD QUOTE
‘Thou played’st most foully for it’
- DECEPTION
- Banquo suspects Macbeth had an involvement in Duncan’s death
Banquo
Act 3 Scene 2
vizard
‘We must…make our faces vizards to our hearts’
- DECEPTION
- ‘vizard’ - a mask for
- ROLE REVERSAL: before LM used to tell M to be deceptive now it has switched
- just before the feast, after ordering banquos death
Macbeth
Act 3 Scene 2
chuck dear
‘Be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck’
- DECEPTION, GENDER
- LNK/CONTRAST to ‘dearest partner of greatness’
- just before the feast, after ordering banquos death
Macbeth
Act 5 Scene 5
tale of bad
‘It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury/SIgnifiying nothing
- DECEPTION
- Macbeth realises that the witches have misled him and without LM life is meaningless
- all interest in life gone
Macbeth
