Macbeth - Fear

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“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?” - All the oceans in the world wouldn’t be capable of washing his blood from his hands. - Guilt. - Never going to get rid of this, stained for life.

Question 2

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“Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires” - worried about his desires wants physical darkness so that people can’t see what he’s about to do. metaphor + personification + semantic field of light and darkness

Question 3

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“Tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow” - Days are stretched and each day is the same. - metaphor + repetition

Question 4

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“O, full of scorpions is my mind dear” - His guilt and conscience is attacking him. - Metaphor

Question 5

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“Is this the dagger I see before me” - dagger represents ambition to murder king Duncan, Fatal vision, soliloquy.

Question 6

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“I cannot say amen” - guilt, no longer with god but instead corrupted like Satan. Symbolic like witches. - Signs of being bewitched. - Believes he will never sleep again. Guilty of murder.

Question 7

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“So foul and fair a day I have not seen” - “foul” - witches. “Fair” - Victory on battle field

Question 8

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“Fair is foul and foul is fair” - Oxymoron- Appearance vs reality.