MacBeth-Evil Flashcards
“fair is foul and foul is fair….”
“Fair is foul and foul is fair/hover through the fog and filthy air”
unnatural blurs boundaries and pollutes natural world
context- jacobeans believes witches were real and found then unnerving
sets tone for the rest of play as it opens the play
“unnatural deeds…”
“unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles”
“and yet dark night…”
“and yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp”
evil effects natural world, influence of witches
“o’ full of…..”
“o’ full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife”
effect of evil is suffering, evil effects the natural state of the body
venumous and uncontrollable thoughts
“bloody instructions….”
“bloody instructions which being taught turn to plague th’ inventor”
evil always comes back around
“i could not…”
“i could not say Amen”
punishment for evil taking away religion as he does not deserve to communicate with God, crime against God
“blood will have…..
“blood will have blood they say, blood will have blood”
he understands that he has done wrong
violence will start more violence suggesting evil has drawn him to start a whirl wind of bloodshed
“i have done…”
“i have done no harm”
Lady McDuff
the innocent suffer for a punishment for the involvement with evil
“bleed, bleed….”
“bleed, bleed poor country”
the whole country will suffer for macbeths crime
evil effects the natural world
“look like the innocent….”
“look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it”
evil involves concealment but when disrupted is very hard to calm down again
