English lit

• “Brave Macbeth, well he deserves that name”

  -Ross Act 1 Scene 2

  • he is worthy and a valiant soldier
  • Shows how royals are terrible judges of characters
  • character was not judged on values but on bravery
  • foreshadowing how daring Macbeth is
• “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”

  - Macbeth Act 2 Scene 2

  • guilt as first time committing deed is full of guilt until it is what you have become
  • irony when LM tried to wash blood off hand telling Macbeth to get over it “little water will rid us of this deed”
• "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself" -Macbeth
• “Unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty.”

  -Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5

  • she‘s saying reduce my femininity make me more masculine
  • she needs to become unemotional (direst - worst cruelty)
  • women need to sacrifice themselves to become powerful
• “Fair is foul, and foul is fair”

  -Witches Act 1 Scene 1

  • summarises play, morality flipped upside down
  • brave Macbeth becomes nasty
• “Out, out, brief candle! Life is but a walking shadow”

  - Macbeth Act 5 Scene 2

  • he is always chasing (the shadow) ambition
  • he is now questioning his choices as his candle is about to blown out
• “Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t”

  - Lady Macbeth Scene 5 Act 1

  • telling Macbeth to be two-faced
• “All hail Macbeth that shalt be king hereafter!” - Witches
• the animal within me licking the chops of memory -Dr Jekyll

  • expressing how good it feels to murder
  • when religion leaves, chaos enters
  • could link to Darwin/ ape nature
  • metaphor for human nature
• O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan’s signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend - Utterson

  • Utterson views Hyde as devil
  • Juxtaposition- utterson suspects but does not try to save friend
• “I incline to Cain’s heresy” he used to say quaintly “I let my brother go to the devil in his own way”

  • sums novella up
  • cain and able reference where cain murdered his brother
  • he’s inclined to evil nature
  • Cain let able go to the devil just like utterson letting jekyll decline
• “I felt younger, lighter, happier in body.”

  -Jekyll

  • symbolises the thoughts we keep inside and Jekyll is letting this out
  • the moment he runs wild with Hyde he feels free
  • evil enticing him, slave to desires
  • tricolon
• “All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled with good and evil: and Edward Hyde in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.”

  • duality- two bodies represent good and evil
  • if you don’t control evil you have a shattered self and are a slave to evil
• “If I am the chief sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also” - Jekyll

  • highlights the thought of 19th century to not go against god
  • god will punish
• “with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows, under which the bones were audibly shattered”

  • links to Hyde as unevolved
  • auditory imagery - Hyde is an animal
• “ the man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground. It sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish to see”

  • the id is in full flow as no one tramples calmly
• “ I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again” - jekyll

  • Jekyll promising falsely highlights lack of control from beginning to end
• “The instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray’s in deepest consequence.”

  -Banquo Scene 3 Act 1

  • instrument is to be played, witches will play M and B
  • foreshadowing terror to happen
  • witches trying to win trust only to betray to make suffer
  • witches drug dealer to Macbeth and he is an addict
• “Full of scorpions in my mind”

  -Macbeth Scene 3 Act 2

  • scorpions eating away at his mind first as confusion
  • foreshadowing how he loses his mind later on
• ”When thou durst do it, then you were a man”

  -Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7

  • example of patriarchy oppressing man
  • men had to be brave and courageous
  • LM uses this to call him a coward and makes Macbeth tip over the edge
• ”Let not light see my dark and deep desires”

  -Macbeth Act 1 Scene 4

  • he has dark deep desires before LM
  • he desire’s are almost apart of him (stuck with him)
  • his character is changing, the catalyst is the witches
• ”heat-oppressed brain”

  -Macbeth soliliquay
• “Something wicked comes this way“

  -Witches Act 4 Scene 1
• “Unseamed him from the nave to the chops”
• “The streets shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood like a fire in a forest”

  • rich and poor
  • stands out
  • simile
  • injustice of London