Quotes Flashcards

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Fair -what is this quote ? And why are the properties of it

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Fair is foul and foul is fair-juxtaposition,paradox,alliteration
Supernatural
It foreshadows changes that will take place in the play,good will become bad and bad will become good eg.Macbeths and lady Macbeths charectors

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You -what quote is this and what are the properties of it

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You shall be king,thane of Cawdor
Supernatural,ambition
Shall is a model verb
Foreshadows Macbeth becoming king after murdering Duncan ,power of the whitches,dreams are being fulfilled

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Stars-what quote is it and what does it show

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Stars hide your fires and let not light see my black and deep desires
Light and dark imagdry,foreshadowing
Appearance vs reality ,evil and change
Macbeth is afraid of the person he is becoming and wants to conceal his his true self,his desires to murder Duncan,and betray his loyalty as his subject

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Too-what quote is this and what are the properties of it

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Too full of the milk of human kindness
Metaphor
Masculinity,ambition appearance vs reality
Macbeth is too afraid to murder Duncan ,toxic masculinity,unfair expectations of Macbeth

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Unsex-what quote is this and the properties of it

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Unsex me me,come you spirits
Imperitive and command
Ambition ,supernatural , evil
Lady Ms attempt to align with the evil to change gender ,dosnt want to confirm to gender stereotypes
Weakness as a woman ,ambition to defy traditional patriarchal ideology to gain power

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Stop-what’s the quote and properties

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Stop up the access and passage to remorse
Lady Macbeth doesn’t want to feel normal emotions -insanity and I mental state

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Vaulting-what quote is this and what are the properties

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Vaulting ambition
Personification ,ambition ,fear,change
Emphasises strength of Macbeths desires to have aposlute and overthrow Duncan to become king

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Look-what quote is that and properties

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Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t
Religous imagdry,juxtaposition
Appearance vs reality
Links to the story of Adam and Eve ,emphasises the change of Macbeth to sinful

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Is -what quote and properties

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Is this a dagger I see before me
Fatal vision -rhetorical question ,metaphor
Guilt ,supernatural
Internal conflict/mentally unstable/instanity/question his own moral righteousness

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Fruit-what quote and properties

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Fruitless crown
Metaphor
Appearnerce vs reality
Macbeths actions were worthless after all because nothing apart from his status has changed

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False-what quote and properties

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False face must hide what the false heart doth know
Alliteration ,personification
Appearance vs reality ,guilt
Equivocation,Macbeth is trying his best to conceal his true desires and hide his sinful charector

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Out -what quote and properties

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Out damned spot
Exclaimation,commmand
Guilt fear change
Lady Ms extreme guilt and realisation,so intense they have caused her to become mentally unstable/insane and lead to her suiside

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I fear-what quote and properties

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I fear thou play’dst most foully for’t
Realiseation of Macbeth
Banquo is catching onto Macbeth and the sinful acts he commuted for power

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Merciful-what quote and properties

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Merciful powers give restrain in me the cursed thoughts
Ambition
Banquo finds it harder to resist temptation, furthermore shows the audience banquo has more mental strength than Macbeth shows he’s a foil

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We love-what quote and meaning

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We love him highly and shall continue our graces towards him
King Duncan is speaking of Macbeth,stating how much he honours and loves him as thane and as a cousin

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If thou-what quote and properties

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“If thou be’st slain and with no stroke of mine, my wife and children’s ghost will haunt me still.”

Macduff must avenge his family’s deaths in order to find peace/closure

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His -what quote

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His mothers womb untimely ripped
This is Macbeths anagorisis as he finds out he is no longer invincible