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“Now o’er the one half-world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuseThe curtain’d sleep” Macbeth says this to himself in Act 2 Scene 1 on lines 49-52. “A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, And yet I would not…

Benevolent Suggestive of goodwill, kindness, generosity Bombastic Marked by pretension; speech or writing meant to sound important or impressive but which is not meaningful or sincere; pompous Burlesque Involving ludicrous or mocking treatment of a solemn subject Derisive Ridiculing mocking…

Macbeth Scottish king, protagonist, kills Duncan to become king, Thane of Glammis, Thane of Cawdor, killed by Macduff Lady Macbeth Macbeth’s wife; she urges him to kill King Duncan so that he will have the crown. She later loses her…

“Round about the cauldron go; In the poisoned entrails throw…” (IV. i. 4-9). “Fillet of a fenny snake, in the cauldron boil and bake;…” (IV. i. 12-19). “Scale of a dragon, tooth of a wolf, Witch’s mummy, maw and gulf…”…

By the pricking of my thumbs,Something wicked this way comes.Open, locks,Whoever knocks.Who is knocking in this scene, why is this character meeting with the weird sisters? macbeth Is this the dagger which I see before me,the handle toward my hand?…

When did Shakespeare write Macbeth? 1611 What is the main theme of Macbeth? excessive ambition will have terrible consequences What two monarchs did Shakespeare wrote for? Queen Elizabeth and King James I What was the plays like during King James…

No o’er the onehalf world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtained sleep. 2.1.6163 Macbeth to himself as he looks at the dagger he will use to kill King Duncan. Now the world is asleep and being deceived…

‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair’ Start as you mean to go on. It isn’t as it seems and acts as a warning to the audience. It’s a riddle in which witches would have spoken, it creates fear as…

Malcolm heir to the throne, Duncan’s (older) son, Prince of Cumberland, flees to England after his fathers death Captain/Sergeant told Duncan how Macbeth killed the traitor, gave us our first impression of Macbeth Lord talked to Lennox about Macbeth and…

blank verse unrhymed iambic pentameter iamb consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. there are five feet to the line prose lower-ranking characters as a form of comic relief external conflict a struggle between two characters or…