Macbeth quotations Flashcards
(3 cards)
Act 1 Scene 3: Macbeth- ‘Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?’
-‘‘borrowed’’ implies a momentary adoption of a new identity which implies that Macbeth will mirror the unscrupulousness of his predecessor thereby foreshadowing his demise
-‘‘robes’’ are connotative with the attire of religious figures such as priests which implies that his initial description preaches his well-meaning intentions whilst disguising the evil he harbours inside
-the inquisition ‘why’ incites conflict in the reader’s perception of Macbeth as this imbues a sort of reluctance for the path on which his ambition leads him
Act 1 Scene 3: Macbeth- ‘So foul and fair a day I have not seen’
-repetition of The Witches’ incantations implies that Macbeth is embodying their evil through the way he almost manifests the fate they have dictated
-‘I have not seen’ suggests that Macbeth has opened his eyes to the new life he has adopted which implies that, like a baby, he is relearning all of which came naturally, the difference between good and evil, under the influence of the Witches; he is an instrument, conduit, of their wrongdoing as exemplified through their inability to directly conjure evil
-they are his first words in the script suggesting his infantilization, like a child learning to speak, and evoking a sense of rebirth
