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ENGLISH LITERATURE PAPER 1: MACBETH
QUOTATION PACK
KEY WORDS
CHARACTERS
TECHNIQUES
THEMES
USEFUL SPELLINGS
SUPER VOCAB
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Banquo
Fleance
Macduff
Lady Macduff
Donalbain
Malcolm
King Duncun
Witches/Weird Sisters
Ross
Siward
Young Siward
Macdonald
blank verse rhyming couplet
prose
metaphorical symbolism
imagery
irony
soliloquy foreshadowing simile
personification metaphor
dramatic irony oxymoron suspense
climax
betrayal
ambition
treason
remorse/guilt
deception
loyalty/trust
death/murder
morality
revenge
supernatural
heroism
respect/honour
power
greed
friendship
relationship
Shakespeare Elizabethan cyclical structure
apparitions
prophecies tragedy
scene
thane
Birnam Wood masculinity
heir
suicide
prophecy regicide
violence
protagonist
foreboding
macabre
ominous
nemesis
antagonist
proleptic irony paradox
iambic pentameter equivocation catharsis
antithesis ambiguity
totalitarian state
pathetic fallacy
ambiance
self- fulfilling prophecies
tragic flaw
usurper
unconventional
Covering Context in Macbeth (AO3)
ACT 1- Macbeth
Quotation
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Brave Macbeth
noble Macbeth
Noun phrases- use of positive adjectives
Fair is foul, and foul is fair
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
Paradox
Mirrored language
Look, how our partner's rapt
Use of the verb rapt
Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?
Metaphor and clothes imagery throughout play
Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires
Light and dark imagery
I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.
Repetition of dare
[Aside] If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir
Repetition of chance
ACT 1- Lady Macbeth
Quotation
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Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts! Unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top full Of direst cruelty.
Language associated with the witches (Semantic field of evil/witchcraft)
Superlative direst
Yet I do fear thy nature; It is too full o the milk of human kindness
Metaphor milk
We fail?
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And well not fail.
Metaphor
Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out
Violent verbs plucked and dashed
Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent undert.
Simile and use of juxtaposition
Was the hope drunk, Wherein you dressd yourself?
Rhetorical question
ACT 2-Macbeth
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I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters: To you they have showd some truth.
I think not of them
Short sentence I think not of them.
Or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Rhetorical question
But wherefore could I not pronounce Amen? I had most need of blessing, and Amen Stuck in my throat.
Repetition of amen and biblical references
Methought I heard a voice cry Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep
Personification of sleep and repetition
What hands are here! Ha! They pluck out mine eyes. Will all Neptunes ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand?
Hyperbole
Rhetorical question
Theres daggers in mens smiles
Metaphor
Juxtaposition
ACT 2-Lady Macbeth
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Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had donet.
Irony
These deeds must not be thought After these ways; so, it will make us mad.
Irony
My hands are of your colour, but I shame To wear a heart so white.
Juxtaposition of red and white
Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers.
Short imperative sentences
A little water clears us of this deed
Irony
Adjective little
O gentle lady! Tis not for you to hear what I can speak; The repetition in a womans ear Would murder as it fell.
Irony
ACT 3- Macbeth
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I fear thou playdst most foully for it
Irony and repetition of word foul/foully
O full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife.
Metaphor
Thou canst not say I did it; never shake thy gory locks at me
Adjective gory
Are you a man?
Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that which may appal the devil
Rhetorical question
Devil imagery
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood
Repetition of blood
This is the air drawn dagger, which you said, led you to Duncan
Reference to air drawn
ACT 4
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double, double toil and trouble
Use of rhyming couplets in witches language
Something wicked this way comes
Adjective wicked
Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo. Down!Thy crown does sear mine eyeballs
Symbol of crown
He has no children. All my pretty ones? Did you say all? Oh hell-kite! All?
Short sentences
Rhetorical questions
O nation miserable, with an untitled tyrant bloody-scepterd
Personification of Scotland
Macbeth now a tyrant
this fiend of Scotland
Metaphor fiend
Devil imagery
ACT 5
Quotation
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Out, damn spot! Out I say!
Irony
Short broken sentences
Yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him
Irony
all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand
Hyperbole
Ill fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked.
Violent verbs hacked
Now does he feel his title hang loose about him, like a giants robe upon a dwarfish thief
Simile
Reference to clothing
Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles
Repetition of unnatural
Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more
Metaphors
Treason- Gunpowder plot and King James 1
Heroism and loyalty
The Great Chain of Being
Shakespeare's Theatre
Religion
Attitudes to Women
The Divine Right of Kings
Supernatural and Witchcraft