Macbeth stuff

• Macbeth: '"Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?"'
• Macbeth: '"Stars hide your fires, let light not see my black and deep desires"'
• Macbeth: '"We will proceed no further in this business"'
• Macbeth: '"Upon my head a fruitless crown.. our fears in Banquo stick deep"'
• Macbeth: '"I am in blood stepped in so far...Returning were as tedious as go o'er"'
• Macbeth: '"I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack'd"'
• Lady Macbeth: '"come spirits, unsex me here... come to my woman's breasts, and take my milk for gall"'
• Lady Macbeth: '"Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under't"'
• Lady Macbeth: '"When you durst do it, then you were a man"'
• Lady Macbeth: '"A little water clears us of this deed. Out damned spot!"'
• Witches: '"Fair is foul and foul is fair"'
• Captain: '"Brave Mecbeth, for he deserves that name"'
• Captain: '"Unseam'd him from nave to chaps and fixed his head upon the battlements"'
• Witches: '"All hail Macbeth: King hereafter"'
• Macbeth: '"So foul and fair a day I have not seen"'
• Banquo: '"So wild and withered in their attire"'
• King Duncan: '"Honoured hostess"'
• Macbeth: '"Is this a dagger I see before me? The handle toward my hand"'
• Macbeth: '"Never shake thy gory locks at me"'
• Apparition 1: '"Fear Macduff"'
• Apparition 2: '"No man born of woman can harm Macbeth"'
• Apparition 3: '"Macbeth can never be vanquished until Great Birnam wood comes to high Dunsinane"'
• Malcolm: '"This tyrant whose sole name blisters our tongues"'
• Macduff: '"was from my mother's room untimely ripped"'
• Hamartia


  Tragic flaw
• Duplicitous

  Deceitful, hypocritical
• Appearance vs Reality

  • Malicious
  • Manipulative
• Divine Right of Kings

  The belief that kings are appointed by God and have a God-given right to rule
• The Great Chain of Being


  A hierarchical structure of all matter and life, believed to have been decreed by God
• Guilt


  A feeling of having done wrong or failed in an obligation
• Regicide


  The act of killing a king
• Themes

  • Kingship
  • Masculinity
  • Femininity
  • Autonomy
  • Prophesise
  • Violence
  • Subterfuge
  • Malevolent
  • Devices
• Literary Devices

  • Foreshadowing
  • Light and Dark imagery
  • Metaphor
  • Simile
  • Foil Characters
  • Pathetic Fallacy
  • Personification
  • Repetition
  • Structure
  • Atmosphere
  • Symbolism
  • Dramatic irony
  • Aside
  • Iambic Pentameter
  • Verse vs Prose
  • Soliloquy