Macbeth

• "Valour's minion"
• "disdaining fortunes...Smok'd with bloody with bloody execution"
• "o valiant cousin"
• "so foul and fair a day I have not seen"
• "doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs"
• "why do you dress me in borrowed robes"
• "is this a dagger I see before me, the handle towards my hand"
• who says a 'a little water clears this deed?'


  Lady Macbeth.
• 'out damned spot' - Lady Macbeth
• 'unsex me here' - Lady Macbeth
• Stars hide your fires! Let no light see my black and deep desires-Macbeth
• Look like an innocent flower but be the serpent under't-Lady Macbeth
• My hands are of your colour but I shame to wear a white heart-lady Macbeth
• out out, brief candle! Life's but s walking shadow... signifying nothing-macbeth
• O full of scorpions is my mind dear wife-Macbeth
• dashed the brains out- Lady Macbeth
• Double double toil and trouble fire burn and cauldron bubble- witches
• instruments of darkness-witches
• King James 1st was king of Scotland before becoming king of England
• King James 1st wrote a book about demonology and believed in supernatural
• King James was targeted for the gunpowder plot just before Macbeth was written
• Shakespeare wrote the play "Macbeth" to please King James
• The Jacobean society believed in witches and blamed them for various tragedies
• Witch Craft and the Supernatural was compared to a fight between good and evil
• The witches were seen as working with satan and working against God
• The Jacobean society that God had the authority to choose the "kings" and "Queens"
• The Great Chain of being was the belief that everything and everyone had a specific place in the hierarchy. If the chain was tampered with then it could cause chaos to the whole world
• When shall we meet again? In thunder, lightning, or rain-witches
• none of woman born shall harm Macbeth-witches
• "I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters: To you they have show'd truth"-banquo