Cards (9)

  • "Security is mortal's chiefest enemy" Act 3
    > Agent of chaos, Hecate and witches
    > Link to "Fair is foul...."
    > THEME: Appearance vs. reality / Ambition
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  • " Fair is foul and foul is fair" Act 1

    > Deceit, everything is not what it seems
  • "Drain him dry as hay" Act 1

    > Sexual connotations with a witch and sailor
    > THEME: Violence
  • " Finger of a birth strangled babe" Act 4

    > Vivid description of a strangled baby
    > Links to King James' Book of Demonology as witches tend to use grotesque parts of creatures for spells
    > THEME: Violence
  • "Out damn spot..." Act 5

    > Could be the witches influence of LMB's lunacy
    > Shows an absence of guilt of the Witches (Typically are)
    > THEME: Guilt
  • "Thunder, lightning or in rain" Act 1

    > In King James' demonology, witches said to manipulate wind and the seas
    > THEME: Supernatural
  • "Armed Head" / "Bloody Child" / "Child Crowned, with a tree in his hand" Act 4

    > 3 apparitions conjured up by the witches to tell Macbeth's future
    > King James' Demonology, witches have the ability to foresee the future
    > THEME: Supernatural
  • "None of women born shall harm Macbeth" Act 4

    > Macduff was a c-section baby and in those times did not count as being born if women
    > Lulls Macbeth into a false sense of security of feeling invincible
  • "Stay you imperfect speakers. Tell me more" Act 1

    > Use of commanding imperative verbs of "Stay" and "Tell" + Full-stop for hesitation, shows him as tempted and intrigued
    > Adjective "imperfect" is an accurate depiction of the witches ?
    > THEME: Supernatural