Cards (10)

  • '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?'