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What sort of things does Macbeth keep asking Banquo before he leaves? Who/What/When/Where/How- Uses info to plan Banquo’s murder Explain the Situational Irony Involving Macbeth’s Reason for killing Duncan He helped Banquo’s sons become king Explain the metaphor “For them…

“I am in blood/Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more,/Returning were as tedious as go over.” macbeth to lady macbeth, macbeth is guilty, and there is no way even if he never murders again, he can never…

‘killing swine’ – the witches are perceived to be more powerful than they actually are. ‘I’ll drain him dry as hay’ – the sailor’s fate is comparable to Macbeth’s by the end of the play, draining him morally, mentally and…

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches WITCHESPATHETIC FALACYThe state of nature reflects the events going on in the story When the battle’s lost and won 2ND WITCHJUXTAPOSITION Fair is foul, and foul is fair: WITCHESJUXTAPOSITION, ALLITERTATION, METAPHOR Who like a…

QUOTES … The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step/on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap. (Act I) Macbeth, Malcolm is now the prince of Cumberland! To become king myself, I’m either going to have to step over…

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”(The Witches) foreshadowing, setting the mood of the supernatural “Let not light see my black and deep desires.”(Macbeth) After Duncan announces that he will name his son Malcolm the next king, Macbeth hopes his…

What do the doctor and gentlewoman see Lady Macbeth doing? What do they decide to do? She is sleepwalking and talking about the murders. The doctor decides his best move is to not mention that he heard anything, and he…

obsequious a) part of speech- synonym b) definition- characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawningc) That (doting on his own obsequious bondage), Wears out his time much like his master’s assd) She’s constantly followed by obsequious assistants who…

“I am worth no worse a place” (ACT 1, SCENE 1) – Iago Iago says this to Roderigo, providing some justification for his jealousy of Cassio. However, Shakespeare’s audience would have been familiar with the last of the Ten Commandmenets…

52William Empson, ‘Honest in Othello’ (1951) ‘The fifty-two uses of honest and honesty in ‘Othello’ are a very queer business; there is no other play in which Shakespeare worries a word like that.’ obsessionWilliam Empson, ‘Honest in Othello’ (1951) ‘Everybody…