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Macbeth key quotes :crossed_swords:, ., . - Coggle Diagram
Macbeth key quotes :crossed_swords:
'Is this a dagger i see before me?'
Macbeth is questioning why he is killing duncan
Dagger is like a final warning
Symbolises his mental torment
question, asking how unsure.
Has he already made that choice
killing duncan while he is asleep, not masculine.
Act 1 scene 4
"Stars, hide your fires, / Let not light see my black and deep desires" - Shows his awareness of his evil actions.
He feels ashamed he has dissapointed God'
'Hide your fires' impertive,
'Deep black desires' yearning, very strong want. 'Deep' he knows its morally wrong.
He feels ashamed, he is trying to alter his fate( stars) stars are 'Godly' , trying to hide all brightness in darkness( evil, shame')
"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?"
act 2 scene 3
Needs a great force of water to clean all his guilt.
' A little water washes us of this deed'
Lady macbeth says this to macbeth to try an dampen his guilt.
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'His fruitless crown and his barren sceptre'
Macbeth is saying killing Duncan was pointless, he has no heirs to give the crown down to.
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not musculine, he cant have sons.
'Barren', its all for nothing, its empty, he cant have children.
Captains speech: 'With his brandished steel', 'unseemed him from the nave to the chops',
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'Vaulting Ambition'
Reckless, overwhelming desire
n his soliloquy, Macbeth acknowledges that his sole motivation to kill Duncan is unchecked ambition, which he fears will lead to his downfall.
act 1 scene 7
He is being reckless, no longer cautious.
Not aware of his consiquences
'Vaulting' he is above duncan, metaphorically talking about duncan as a horse.
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