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16 Cards in this Set
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"Fair is foul and foul is fair" |
Act 1 Scene 1 The Witches
People aren't all they seem and good people are capable of evil things. |
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"O Valiant cousin, worthy gentleman" |
Act 1 Scene 2 King Duncan about Macbeth Macbeth is well respected, trusted and thought of fondly by the King |
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"So foul and fair a day I have not seen" |
Act 1 Scene 3 Macbeth Foreshadowing that Macbeth will be influenced by the witches / has been influenced already |
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"All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!" "All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!" "All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!" |
Act 1 Scene 3 The witches prophecies for Macbeth Macbeth is already thane of Glamis, he is not yet the other two proclamations |
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"Lesser than Macbeth, and greater" "Not so happy, yet much happier" "Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none" |
Act 1 Scene 3 The witches prophecies for Banquo Foreshadowing that Banquo will be a better, happier person in life/death than Macbeth and that his sons will be kings |
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"Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?" |
Act 1 Scene 3 Macbeth to Ross Macbeth is uncomfortable to begin with as thane of cawdor, foreshadows that Macbeth will not fit properly into the title of king |
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"He bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor" |
Act 1 Scene 3 Ross to Macbeth The first of the prophecies has come true |
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"Two truths are told as happy prologues to the swelling act of the imprial theme" |
Act 1 Scene 3 Macbeth Ross and Angus don't know what he means, he is beginning to anticipate becoming king |
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"If good, why do I yield to that suggestion" |
Act 1 Scene 3 Macbeth aside He's conflicted and begins to imagine killing the king, he considers himself a good man and does not want to 'yield' to killing his king. |
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"If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir" |
Act 1 Scene 3 Macbeth aside He's settled on not doing anything to make himself king to allow it to happen on it's own. |
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"Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires" |
Act 1 Scene 4 Macbeth aside He doesn't want anyone to know he was thinking of murdering Duncan, he hopes his eyes don't give away his guilt/secret. |
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"It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way" |
Act 1 Scene 5 Lady Macbeth Soliloquy She knows Macbeth is too kind and nice to kill Duncan to become king. |
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"That I may pour my spirits in thine ear" |
Act 1 Scene 5 Lady Macbeth Soliloquy She wants to be able to pursuade him to do as she wishes. |
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"That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements." |
Act 1 Scene 5 Lady Macbeth Soliloquy Foreshadowing that Duncan will die and that Lady Macbeth intends to do it that night while he stays in her home. |
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"Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here" |
Act 1 Scene 5 Lady Macbeth Soliloquy She wants to get rid of her femmininity, at the time females were thought of as weak etc. she is talking to eveil spirits, audience will perceive her as evil. |
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"Great Glamis! worthy Cawdor! Greater than both, by the all hair hereafter" |
Act 1 Scene 5 Lady Macbeth to Macbeth She is using flattery to try and get what she wants, her words echo the prophecies which connect her to the witches in the audiences minds. |
