Lady Macbeth
“Look like th’ innocent flower but be the serpent under’t’
“I would while it was smiling in my face , have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out..”
“From this time , such I account thy love , Art thou afeard”
“Are you a man?”
“All the perfumes in Arabia could not sweeten this little hand”
Macbeth
Why do you dress me in borrowed robes
Is that a dagger which I see before me
To be thus is nothing but to be safely thus”
“Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown and a barren sceptre in my grip”
“I am in blood stepped in so far going back were as tedious as go o’er”
“I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked”
From this moment the very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my heart
The witches
Fair if foul is fair
Beware Macduff , beware the thane of Fife
Be bloody , bold , resolute;laugh to scrorn”
Duncan gets betrayed by Thane of Cawdor , gives title to Macbeth quote
“No more that the Thane of Cawdor shall deceive our bosom interest , Go, pronounce his death and with his former title , Greet Macbeth”
Look like the innocent flower but be serpent under’t explanation
Simile
“Innocent flower”- like other member of society , nature imagery
“Serpent”- biblical illusion , associated with devil , known as deceiver
“No more that the Thane of Cawdor shall deceive our bosom interest , Go, pronounce his death and with his former title , Greet Macbeth” explanation
Loyal- Macbeth , gains title
Service of Justice- Macbeth gains title
Foreshadow- Macbeth trust the witches as the told his something and it came true
Betrayal- TOC , gets killed , title stripped
Duncan- naïve for trusting the untrusted
Dramatic irony- Macbeth will later get
Duncan killed
False face..
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know”
False face must hide what the false heart doth know”
False face- what many people do, Macbeth knows he has to feign loyalty to Duncan
False heart- self aware , the fallacy that LM is controlling Macbeths actions is false , he is aware!!
False heart- he’s aware he’s gonna commit regicide
Lady Macbeth character description
She is the personification of corruption
Macbeth Character description
He is not weak victim or under any illusion, he is a tragic hero influenced and consumed by his dark and disturbing desires
Emasculation quote
“When you durst do it , then you’ll be a man”
Unnatural order (darkness)
And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp
(Unnatural darkness + moral corruption after Duncan’s murder)
Desensitised Macbeth
I have almost forgotten the taste of fears
(Lost his humanity)
Ross encouragement to Macduff
Let grief convert into anger , blunt not the heart , enrage it
Macbeth fear (go no more..)
I’ll go no more , I’m afraid to think of what I have done
(Inner turmoil after commuting regicide)
Macbeth nightmares
In the affliction of these terrible dreams that is nightly
(His guilt manifests into night mares , disturbs his peace of mind)
Lady Macbeth’s Q = Macbeths nature
Yet I do fear thy nature
It is full o’ the milk of human kindness
Lady Macbeth Q- reading M letter promise
Glamis thou art Cawdor shall be what art thou promised
Lady Macbeth Q= daggers , pictures
Give me the daggers , the sleeping men and the dead are but as pictures
Lady Macbeth’s = breakdown , despair
What’s done cannot be undone
Noughts had , all’s spend , where our desires got without content
Lady Macbeth = Darkness Vs light
She has the light by her continually , tis her command
Lady Macbeth’s animal imagery = Duncan
The raven himself is hoarse and croaks at the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements
Lady Macbeth’s guilt and comparison to last Macduff
The thane of Fife had a wide , where is she now? What will these hands ne’er be clean?
