maccie b. Flashcards
(42 cards)
why does Lady Macbeth fear that Macbeth wont be able to kill Duncan?
she says he is “too full of the milk of human kindness” this contrasts to the tyrant he becomes later
what is Macbeth’s first line onstage?
“so foul and fair a day I have not seen” this shows macbeth’s inner conflict and foreshadows the witches control over him
how does the captain describe Macbeths sword in battle?
“smoked with bloody excecution” - excecution suggests legal and justified killing. contrasts his later behaviour.
“stars hide your fires…..
…let not light see my black and deep desires” - conflict between light and dark imagery. also shows that macbeth knows that his ambition is wrong.
who does macbeth “unseam from the nave to the chaps”?
macdonald
what does angus tell the other men about Macbeth being a traitor? he uses textile imagery.
“now does he feel his title hang loose about him like a giants robe on a dwarfish theif”
“come you spirits…..
…that tend upon mortal thoughts, unsex me here”
what quote shows that Lady Macbeth wishes to be filled with cruelty?
“fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty” - this would have shocked a Jacobean audience
how are Macbeth and Lady Macbeth described by Malcom at the end of the play
“the dead butcher and his feind like queen”
what does Lady M say when Macbeth has murdered Duncan and how does she contrast this with what she says while sleepwalking?
-“a little water clears us of this deed”
-“all the perfumes of arabia will not sweeten this little hand”
what is suggested when Lady M says “the Thane of Fife had a wife, where is she now?”
Macbeth no longer confides in his wife
what is the biblical and James I reference that Lady M tells Macbeth to do when killing Duncan?
‘look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it”
what quote at the beggining of the play shows how Macbeth sees Lady Macbeth as an equal and friend
“my dearest partner of greatness”
give a quote that shows Lady Macbeths violence
“plucked the nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out”
give two quotes that talk about blood during Lady Ms sleepwalking scene
-“out damned spot”
-“‘who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him”
give a quote that shows Lady Macbeth manipulating Macbeth by threatning his manhood
“when you durst do it, then you were a man”
what does macbeth say that directly adresses his own vaulting ambition?
“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition” (words linking to horses=unpredictability, wild)(vaulting=jumping up in the natural order)
what quote from macbeth shows us his pessimistic veiwpoint near the end of the play?
“lifes but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage”
what does Banquo talk about when he delivers his Act 3 soliliquy?
he ponders that Macbeth has “plyed most foully” for the crown but that if his prophecy has come true, so might his.
what does Duncan say when he decides to give Macbeth the title of Thane of Cawdor?
“what he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won” (mimics the contradiction of the witches)
what does macbeth say about the Prince of Cumberland?
“The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step on which I must fall down or else overleap” (again he is jumping his place in the natural order)(he sees people as barriers to his success)
what does macbeth say regarding blood after he has killed duncan?
“will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand” (interesting use of pagan god rather than christian god - macbeth has lost touch with god”
what does macbeth say after the murder of duncan that shows he has lost touch with god
“but wherefore could not I pronounce ‘Amen’”
what does macbeth say that is ironic about the witches?
“damned all those that trust them”
