Act 1

• In act 1 the down fall of Macbeth is already foreshadowed from the very first scene as "instruments of darkness" are having a discussion about him hinting on how they are going to "tempest-toss" him just like the other men that they have delt with
• "thunder, lighting, or in rain"
• "fair is foul and foul is fair "
• "unseamed him from the nave to the chap"
• "my dearest partner of greatness"
• "he will be what he has been promised "
• "that i may pour my spirits into his ear "
• "unsex me here "
• "look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it "
• "bought him golden opinions"
• "stars hide you fire, let light not see my dark and deep desires"
• "what is we fail?"
• Aristotelian concepts- hamartia and fatal flaw