Where is the palace? | Duncanain |
Who does king duncan want his era | Malcolm |
Foreshadowing example? | Witches said be where of Macduff |
The images in Macbeth | AnimalsBloodClothing Darkness Supernatural |
Who are they with war with? | Norway |
Example of Paradox? | Foul is fair…said by the witches |
Hamartia | The flaw that cause the down fall of the hero |
Peripety | Reversal of fortune that the hero experiences |
Catharsis | The “purging” of the audience |
Hubris | Extreme pride |
Surrealism | Creative potential of the Unconscious mind |
Anagnorisis | Hero makes a critical discovery about himself and his flaw |
Nemesis | Fate by the hero that cannot be reversed |
Soliloquy | True thoughts spoken aloud when he is along |
Aside | Speaks directly toward the audience-usually telling a secret |
Parodox | Appears condradictory, but bears a deeper truth |
Verbal Scenery | Actors describe setting for audience |
Where did Shakesphere get his idea for the play? | Based off of the real Duncan and Macbeth. |
How did he change historical facts? | The historic Duncan was wise-he was weak and arrogant. The two wars are combined into one. |
Where does the play take place? | Scotland |
Three prophesis to Macbeth | 1.)Thane of Cowdor 2.)Thane of Glamis3.)King |
Three prophesis to Banquo | 1.)Lesser than Macbeth but greater2.)Happier than Macbeth 3.) sons will be king |
Three apparitions & what they mean | 1.)Armed head-Macduff is coming back for Macbeth2.)Bloody child-no man born of a woman can harm him3.)Child wearing a crown & holding a tree-dunclinane hill shall come against him |
Who is the trador in Macbeth? | Thane of Cowdor |
“But screw your courage to the sticking place and we will not fail.” | Lady Macbeth challenges Macbeth to commit to the plan to murder King Duncan. |
“Nought’s had, all’s spent,Where our desire is got without content.” | Lady Macbeth finds that getting what you want doesn’t bring peace |
“My way of life is fall’n into the sear, the yellow leaf.” | Macbeth’s despair about hearing the 10k troops are coming for him |
“As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.” | The soldier is speaking of Macbeth and Banquo |
“When the battles lost and won.” | Witches are foreshadowing the future events |
“Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?” | That Macbeth has a false title because he is already king |
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” | Macbeth cannot let out to the world of his future killing |
“Two truths are told as happy prologues to the swelling act of the imperial theme.” | Macbeths lust for power is now taking over |
“Nothing is but what is not.” | Macbeth is agreeing with the witches prophesies |
“Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.” | He didn’t do anything in his life as well as the way the died |
“He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust.” | Duncan is about to make the same mistake about the next Thane of Cawdor |
“look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.” | Lady Mcb is telling Mcb to stop being a coward and kill Duncan already |
“I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition.” | Macbeth knows there is no reason to kill Duncan because he is good at being king, but he wants to be king |
“Theres dagger in mens smiles.” | That donalibin and his brother think they might die too |
“Never shake thy gory locks at me.” | When Macbeth is telling the ghost to not shake his hair at him because he thinks there is still blood on it |
“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” | That the witch can tell something wrong is going to happen |
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweaten this little hand.” | Lady Mcb is saying that the blood on her hands will be there forever |
“Now does he feel this title having loose about him like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief.” | Angus talking about the kings job |
Macbeth test study guide
August 15, 2019