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MACBETH QUOTES, kingship, consequences of regicide, supernatural, power,…
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kingship
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Macbeth
"goes fleance with you?"
Macbeth is cowardly as he resorts to killing a child to try and fulfil the prophecies set out by the witches. also disturbing
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"run away I pray you"
This is said by Maduffs son when murders try to kill him mother. This is juxtaposed to Macbeths selfishness and shows how much he cares for his mother. This scene is used to make their deaths seem unjust and is very upsetting to the reader as these characters have morality and kindness which are the qualities that macbeth starts to lack. This unjust world was created after the regicide committed by macbeth
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True Kings are supposed to be able to heal those who are unwell with their touch but when LM is sick there's is nothing he can do as his " borrowed robes" due to defying divinely ordained order
Macduff
Md cares about Scotland very deeply so much so that he leaves his family to go to England to build an army to fight the tyrannical macbeth. His love for his country also caused him to abandon his family and leave them exposed to danger so it could be argued that his ecisions were irrational
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Malcolm
"o by whom?"
response to death of his father is not sincere and just sounds unattached. Malcolm acts like his fathers death was the death of a stranger. he is unaffected. this is what would've been praise in shakesperian time as show emotions and vulnerability is seen as weak and feminine
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Malcolm is a shrewd judge of character as he tests Macduff loyalty to Scotland compared to loyalty for the next person in line to the throne by saying he is immoral
"were I king I should cut the nobles of their land" "black macbeth will seem as pure as snow" "the cistern of my lust"
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consequences of regicide
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for perpetrators
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"all the perfumes of arabia will not sweeten this little hand" vs "a little water clears us of this deed"
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brutality of regicide
D - "we love him highly"
this is the last line spoken by Duncan in the play and its ironic as this is a declaration of love to the person who murders him. used to heighten the sense of betrayal, shock and horror at Duncans murder
supernatural
Banquo vs Macbeth
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"if you can look into the seeds of time" "eaten on insane root" "instruments of darkness tell us truths...to betrays in deepest consequence"
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sadistic
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vivisection of animals and use of mythological ingredients in the cauldron shows sadism and power "poisoned entrails" "venom" also viewed as grotesque and unsettling and repulsive connotations.
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powerful
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"master of the tiger"
reference to real life event when the ship returned home after suffering a disastrous sea voyage of 567 days - use of contemporary events to emphasise power
hecate is the head witch shown by the fact she speaks in iambic pentameter whilst the other witches speak in trochaic tetrameter which shows the hierarchical system even among the supernatural
trochaic rhythm witches use when speaking gives their speech a chant like quality and adds to the strange otherworldly being possessed of raw supernatural power
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ambition
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"here's our chief guest"
ambition leads Macbeth to murder banquet and attempt on Fleances life. also foreshadows death of Banquo because the previous chief guest was murdered.
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fear and guilt
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"disdained fortune"
made fear feel unworthy in his presence - shows his lack of paranoia before regicide and emphasise the point that committing regicide caused the down spiral of his life
masculinity
the valued features of a man were ruthlessness, physical strength, violence and brutality
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appearance vs reality
in actions of characters
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Md-"o gentle lady"
highly ironic as she was involved in the murder of Duncan and asked to have more masculine qualities such as "turn my milk into gall"
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in the surrounding
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"welcome" "mirth"
semantic field of invitingness but in reality the Macbeths have a lot of blood on their hands and have committed many crimes
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