Doubt and Uncertainty

'fair is foul and foul is fair'

things aren't what they seem

Juxtapositon

they have 'beards' gives them an not trusting appearance

'If we should fail?' ... 'We fail?'

rhetorical question

M has doubts

she really wants him to do it and believes he can

'too full o'th milk of human kindness'

she doubts that he is strong enough to do it

she calls upon evil spirits 'unsex me here'

needs her support to do it

opposite to women in Jacobean era - she wants to fully masculine

All the evil deeds catch up with her and she ends up doubting herself - committing suicide

'dagger of the mind'

'the handle is toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee'

he has doubts but greed and ambition is pushing him on

supernatural or insane due to doubt and uncertainty

doesn't want to upset the natural order DROK

'Noble hostess'

Acting 'false'

pathetic fallacy of the night to display sinful night - hide actions

King trusted M but he is being deceitful and breaking the loyalty

'for it is a knell, summon thee to heaven or to hell' - M knows what he plans to do is wrong

knell - connotations with death

hell - religious vocab - they will eventually be punished for their sins

rhyming couplets - he is speaking like the witches

Jacobean people very religious so hell scary theme to them