quotes macbeth

• what are the methods in the quote "when shall we three meet again in thunder lighting or rain?" and what theme does it show


  theme- supernatural

  pathetic fallacy

  rhyming couplets (chant)
• what methods are in the quote "come you spirits...unsex me here/and fill me... of dirtiest cruelty" and what theme is it and what act and scene ? 


  theme- supernatural

  imperative verb "come"

  direct adress- she's not scared

  1.5
• what method/ link does the quote "tempest tossed" show whats the theme and act scene?

  theme- supernatural

  plosive alliteration shows power

  links to james almost dying at sea (suspects witch craft)

  foreshadowing - curses the sailor with insomnia links to Macbeth

  1.3
• whats the method in the quote "foul and fair and foul is fair " what act was it said in and what other quote does it link to ?


  paradox + juxtoposition

  "so foul and fair a day" 1.3

  1.1
• what method is in the quote "look like the innocent flower /but be the serpent under it" what theme does this show and what act was it said?


  theme- appearance vs reality

  imperative language

  encourages manipulation

  biblical allusion - links to gun powder plot

  1.5
• what does the quote "false face must hide what false heart doth know" what is the language method and scene?


  repetition of false (he knows its wrong)

  "must" only way to successfully do it

  "doth know echoes lady Macbeth - manipulation

  personification

  1.7
• What do the nouns “candle”, “shadow”, “player”, and “tale” connote in Macbeth's soliloquy?

  Imitation and emptiness
• "I have no spur/ to prick the sides of my intent, but only /Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself/ and falls on th'other

  1. his only excuse for killing Duncan is to satisfy his ambition- and his ambition will end in disaster
  2. self destructive "overleaps ITSELF"
  3. Metaphor racing horse mimicking the way he treats life like a race
  4. metaphor sees himself both as the horse and jockey Shakespeare implies that M trying to control his ambition but it feels like it might end up controlling him - makes him become more animalistic
  5. reflects the way Jacobeans believes the only thing that separate humans from animals is reason and logic
• Macbeths hamartia is ?


  his unchecked ambition
• "sleep no more" couldn't say "amen"


  moral and identy crisis after killing Duncan

  has gone agensts everything he has been taught as a soilder for the king

  turns his back on god
• "now does he feel his title

  hang loose about him, like a giants robe on a dwarfish thief"