Macbeth

• act 1: "valour's minion"


  the noun minion could foreshadow his susceptibility to manipulation and how he will soon be a marionette puppet to the witches
• act 1: "disdaining fortune...smok'd with bloody execution"


  the use of "smok'd" this connotes heat and hell which foreshadows his evil. the phase "disdaining fortune" show his disregard for his fate as he attempts to manipulate the natural order.
• act 1: "so fouls and fair is a day i have not seen"


  this shows Macbeth becoming a mouthpiece for the witches and a vessel for their misconduct
• act1: " doth unfix my hair and make my seat heart knock at my rib."


  shows that the witches have both externally and internally the witches have rattled him
• act 1: "why do you dress me in borrowed robes?"


  this shows that he had been awarded a title that doesn't belong to him and that it gives the audience hope, the subtle motif of clothes/power/depiction/identity shows how just like clothes they can be removed like his later rank of king
• act 1: "face" "a book where men may read strange manner."


  lady Macbeth mocks Macbeth for his kindness and this portray as weak and vulnerable and these qualities fail to align with the ideal masculine archetype of the era
• act 1: " worthy Cawdor" and "hail thee thane of Cawdor"


  lady Macbeth uses flattery and hailing him. Macbeth has now created 2 relationships with supernatural entities and has been governed by them
• act 1: "was the hope drunk?" and "where in dressed yourself?"


  the rhetorical question gives Macbeth time to think and ponder on these questions. she wants to exploit his emotions of shame and embarrassment
• act 1: "coward" 


  lady Macbeth threatens his entire sense of being as a solider so she is not only questioning his masculinity but his lively hood.
• act 1: "bash the brains out"


  this shows the merciless acts of lady Macbeth as she rejects maternal inclination characterises as she is violent and determined
• act 2: "i dreamed las night of the weird sister." and" i think not of them."


  shows Banquo's honesty amplifies Macbeth's dishonesty and deceptions
• act 2: "candles are out." "stars hide your fires."


  Banquo says that there is a lack of stars in the night. whereas Macbeth wasn't to hide from god. the motif of stars exposes Macbeth and Banquo that they are diametrically opposed in their aspirations
• act 2: " is this a dagger which i see before me, the handle towards my hand? come let me clutch thee."


  show Macbeths internal conflict and confusion. the handle towards my hand show he is rid himself over the responsibility for the murder and it was forced upon him.
• act 2: " fatal vision"


  the ambiguous phrase show the fatalities that will come as the result of the tragedy and that his actions are decreed(dictated) by fate
• Act 2: the dagger as a "instrument"


  this alludes of how the 'the instrument of darkness' the witches have musically entranced him into regicide. if the dagger is shown on the stage it draws the audience into Macbeths madness.
• good idea

  this is a volt of the character as he begins to experience guilt
• Act 2: "god bless us" "amen"


  this highlights has deviated so far for god and religion.
• Act 2: "i heard a cry 'sleep no more/ Macbeth has murders sleep'


  loss of innocence and has become an imprisoned state of restless
• the motif of sleep 


  this show how both Macbeth and lady Macbeth have lost their innocence
• peripeteia

  the sudden reversal of fate
• act 3: "in time will venom breed/no teeth for th'present"


  this show that Macbeth has realised his tumultuous fortune and yet his hubris blinds to a false sense of security.
• Act 3: "welcome"


  this gives that lady Macbeth and Macbeth are flustering their guest. as they believe that their sin are catching up with them. their guilt is threating their composure
• unnatural kingship

  the murders enter before Macbeth can down with his guest this sow that his past actions with interrupt his ability to assimilate with his peers and nobleman as king.
• act 3: "make our faces vizards to our hearts" and "look like the innocence flower but be the serpent under't"


  show the change in power
• Act 3: " i am in blood"


  show the blood is motif was on his hand but the blood has now enrobed him on his entire body and by it is now his entire sense of being
• Act 3:"you must leave this"


  this shows the change in the roles as lady Macbeth is now the anthesis of who she was
• act 3:"be innocence of the knowledge dearest chuck"

  Macbeth uses an epithets which will belittle her as she previously did to him
• Act 4: "tell me" "call em"


  he speaks with imperatives pharse show that he is hungry for power and believe that he more powerful that the supernatural
• Act 4:"eternal curse"


  he threatens the witches with a curse which ironic as we have seen their supernatural powers and he believes that he can supersede this
• Act 4: "his wife ,his babes, and unfortune souls"


  this syntax order of the words suggests that Macbeth is focused on exterminating all the soul he sees as unfortune as he knows that he is an unfortune soul
• Act 5: "life is but a walking shadow....it is a tale...signifying nothing."


  the noun tale could show that the idea of the witches influence like a ominous nursey rhyme. he realises he has been placed upon a stage for the witches entertainment. the use of shadow shows that he now believes that life is fragile and impermanent. Macbeth undergoes anagnorisis and his actions consequently submits himself to nihilism the rejection of god and he believes that life is meaningless
• Act 5:"my soul is too much charged with the blood of thine."


  this show that Macbeth is remorse as he has sense of humanity. he remains redeemable to be characterised as tragic hero.
• Act 5: "mother womb/untimely ripped."


  born of a c-section and this is the moment of anagnorisis and strips him of hubris and courage.