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Three greetings/ prophecies in Act I
Named next in line to the throne by his father
Fled to Ireland and said “There are daggers in men’s smiles.”
Three greetings/prophecies given to Banquo by witches:
Hallucination Macbeth sees before Duncan’s murder:
At first Macbeth is reluctant to go through with the murder because Duncan is at Macbeth’s in “double trust.”
What does that mean?
Name of Banquo’s son
Three apparitions shown to Macbeth
Three prophecies related to the apparitions
Gesture Lady Macbeth does in her sleep
Considered main theme of Macbeth
Quote Short answer: Explain each of the quotes: who said it and its significance and its motif/theme relation
“Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more! / Macbeth does murder sleep,’ the innocent sleep,…”
“Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather / The
multitudinous seas incarnadine, / Making the green one red.”
“Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe topfull / Of direst cruelty!”
“The Thane of Cawdor lives! Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?”
Identify the speaker:
“Double, double, toil and trouble.”
“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage.”
“So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”
“She should have died hereafter.”
“Lay on, Macduff, and damned be him who first cries ‘Hold enough!’”
“When shall we three meet again?”
“Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done ‘t.”
“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow…”
“Out, damned spot…
“The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements”
“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under ‘t.”
“Fly, good Fleance! Fly, fly, fly!”
“Macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped!”
“I will not yield to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet…”
“Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, as the weird women promised, and I fear thou play'dst most
foully for't.”
“It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood.”
“Something wicked this way comes.”
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”
“But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail.”
“Bring forth men-children only; for thy undaunted mettle should compose nothing but males.”
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Ambiguity, Equivocation
Atmosphere
Blank verse
Catharsis
Contraction
Deus Ex Machina
Foot / meter / Iambic pentameter / blank verse
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Hamartia
Dramatic irony
Motif
Paradox
Soliloquy
Synecdoche
Tragedy / tragic flaw
Weird (Old English Def.)
Antimetabole