Macbeth

• “In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”

  witches

  Supernatural

  tricolon
• “bellona’s bridegroom”

  Macbeth

  ambition

  plosive alliteration, metaphor
• “so foul and fair a day I have not seen”

  macbeth

  supernatural

  repitition, connects with witches
• “let not light see my black and deep desires”

  macbeth

  Appearance Vs reality

  juxtaposition, metaphor, rhyming couplet
• “too full of the milk of human kindness”

  Lady Macbeth/ Macbeth

  Gender

  metaphor, imagery of purity
• “Look like th’innocent flower/ But be the serpent under’t”

  Lady Macbeth/ Macbeth

  appearance vs reality

  simile, religious symbolism of serpent
• “you would be so much more the man”

  Lady Macbeth/ Macbeth

  Gender
• “I could not say Amen/ When they did say God bless us“

  Macbeth

  guilt
• Themes:

  • Appearance vs reality
  • Guilt
  • Gender
  • Ambition
  • Supernatural
  • Power/ Kingship
• “His silver skin laced with his golden blood”

  Duncan

  guilt/ kingship

  imagery
• “I fear thou played most foully for’t”

  Banquo

  ambition

  paradox
• “we have scorch’d the snake, not kill’d it“

  Macbeth

  Ambition

  metaphor
• “Fly good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!”

  Banquo

  Guilt

  tricolon, repetition
• “Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill/ Shall come against him”

  witches

  supernatural

  foreshadowing, equivocating