| How many witches? | 3 |
| “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” | -Witches-paradox-good and bad |
| “Doubtful it stood. As two spent swimmers that do cling together and choke their art” | -simile-captain |
| “So foul and fair a day I have not seen” | -Macbeth-Paradox |
| Three part prophecy of Macbeth: | -Hail to the, Thane of Glaims-Hail to the, Thane of Cawdor-All hail, Macbeth, that shat be king hereafte |
| Three part prophecy of Banquo: | -lesser than Macbeth and greater-not so happy, yet much happier-Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none |
| “And of ten times, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tells is truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray’s in deepest consequence” | -Banquo-foreshadowing |
| “If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me without my stir” | -Macbeth-characterization |
| “Come what come may. Time and the hour runs through the roughest day” | -Macbeth-cliché |
| “He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust” | -Duncan -Foreshadowing |
| “Yet I do fear thy nature: it is too full o’th’ milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without the Should attend it” | -Lady Macbeth-Characterization |
| Reasons not to kill Duncan… | -“He’s here in double trust…’ -as a kingsman and a king -as a guest-Duncan’s a good king, meek and virtuous -Macbeth has no personal issue with Duncan. only ambition drives him |
| “We will proceed no further in this business. He hath honored me of late, and I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people” | -Macbeth-Characterization |
| “I have given suck, and know how tender tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from its’ boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this” | -Lady Macbeth-characterization |
| Self-fulfilling prophecy (define and origin) | -prophecy declared as truth when it is actually false may sufficiently influence people, either through fear or logical confusion, so that their reactions ultimately fulfill the once-false prophecy -Robert K. Merton |
| “Is this a dagger I see before me The handle toward my hand? Come let me clutch thee.” | -Macbeth-symbolism |
| “That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold… I laid their daggers ready: He could not miss’em. Had he not resembled my father as he slept. I had done’t.” | -Lady Macbeth -Characterization |
| Macbeth’s mistakes | -He leaves the chamber with daggers -Refuses to wash blood from hands-Has tremendous remorse |
| “Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures.” | -Lady Macbeth-imagery |
| “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?” | -Macbeth-Metaphor |
| “My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white… A little water clears us of this deed.” | -Lady Macbeth-characterization |
| Purpose of the porter | -comic relief-reflection of the groundlings -bawdy humor |
| “O gentle lady, ‘Tis not for you to hear what I can speak. The repetition in a woman’s ear would murder as it fell.” | -Macduff-irony |
| “Who could refrain that had a heart to love, and in that heart courage to make’s love known?” | -Macbeth -irony |
| Malcolm and Donalbain left because… | -They will be held responsible for their father’s death. -whoever killed their father will soon kill them |
| Malcolm goes to | England |
| Donalbain goes to… | Ireland |
| Strange happenings: | -it is daytime, yet the sky is dark-a falcon was killed by a mousing owl(king, Macbeth)-Duncan’s horses turned wild and ate each other |
| “Thou hast it now- king Cawdor, Glamis, all as the weird woman promised, and I fear thou played’st most foully for’t” | -Banquo-characterization |
| “We hear our bloody cousins are bestowed in England and in Ireland, not confessing their cruel parricide, filling their hearts with strange invention.” | -Malcolm and Donalbain are being blamed for Duncan’s death |
| “That it was he, in the times past, which held you so under fortune” | -Macbeth-Characterization |
| “I am one, my liege. Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world hath so incensed that I am reckless what I do spite the world” | -murderers -characterization |
| Macbeth as manipulator: | -decided to have Banquo killed-he hires two murders to kill his friend -he claims that Banquo is to blame for all their troubles-he says he cannot kill Banquo because all their mutual friends would be angry -he also tells them to kill Banquo’s son, Fieance |
| “Things without all remedy should be without regard. What’s done is done” | -lady Macbeth -characterization |
| “Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, till thou applaud the deed” | – Macbeth- characterization |
| Characteristics of three witches: | Evil, foreshadowed later events |
| Characteristics of Duncan: | King, gullible |
| Characteristics of Malcolm: | Duncan’s son; to be king |
| Characteristics of Donalbain: | Duncan’s son |
| Ross/Angus | Idiots |
| Banquo | Macbeth’s best friend |
| Macbeth | Main character |
| Lady Macbeth | Macbeth’s wife |
| Porter | Man who opens door; provided comic relief; reflection of groundlings |
| Macduff | Intelligent |
Macbeth
September 12, 2019