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Macbeth - Key Quotations + Analysis
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'Valour's minion'
Macbeth is described with the noun
'minion'
which
foreshadows
how he is
susceptible
to
manipulation
and will soon be a
puppet
of the
witches
'Disdaining fortune... smok'd with bloody execution'
'smok'd'
connotes to
heat
and
hell
,
foreshadowing
his
evil
'disdaining
fortune'
shows a
disregard
for his
fate
and his attempt to
manipulate
natural
order.
'Disdaining
fortune...
smok'd
with
bloody execution'
'Valour's
minion'
'So foul and fair a day I have not seen'
Macbeth is becoming a
mouthpiece
for the
witches'
evil, he is a
vessel
for their
misconduct
'doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs'
Showing the
witches
have
externally
and
internally
rattled
Macbeth
'Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?'
Suggest that
Macbeth
has been
awarded
a
title
that doesn't
belong
to
him.
Clothes are presented as a
symbol
of
power
,
deception
and
identity.
It is
superficial
and
transient
(temporary), like
clothes.
'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
?'