Macbeth

Supernatural

Power

Ambition

Appearance and reality

Macbeth

lady Macbeth

witches

lady Macbeth

Banquo

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Quote "Ghost of Banquo"

Macbeth

“Look like th’innocent flower, But be the serpent under’t” ---Act I, Scene VI

Come you spirits, That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here. ---Act I, Scene V

“Tis the eye of childhood, That fears a painted devil.” ---Act II, Scene II

‘The raven himself is hoarse,That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan,Under my battlements” --- Act I, Scene V

“Yet do I fear thy natureIt is too full o’ the milk of human kindness.” --- Act I, Scene V

Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? – Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.” --- Act V, Scene

“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.” --- Act V, Scene I

“Come, thick night,And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,To cry, ‘Hold, hold!’ --- Act I, Scene V

“That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold,What hath quenched them hath given me fire.” --- Act II, Scene II

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I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on th' other.”

Act 3 Scene 4

Stage direction structure

“O’ full of scorpions is my mind.”

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Nobody else can see the ghost which symbolises Macbeth's guilt and fear about the consequences of murder

Links to the witches and the dagger vision

A Ghost in Jacobean era was seen as supernatural and wicked

Witches

Fair is foul and foul is fair --- Juxtaposition, chaos, strengeness

Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand ? --- Witches manipulate Macbeth

"thunder and lightning" --- chaos environmental description

Quote "Fair is foul, and foul is fair"

Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it’

Ambiguous - unclear meaning

If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me
Without my stir’

‘I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent but only Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself And falls on th’other’

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Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thought --- Lady Macbeth want more supernatural power

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