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Macbeth
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| “Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear/ Things that do sound so fair?” | Banquo, reversal of morality (fair/foul reference) |
| “… look like the innocent flower,/ But be the serpent under’t.” | Lady Macbeth, deceptive appearances |
| “… Come thick night/ And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,/ That my keen knife see not the wound it makes…” | Lady Macbeth, petition to darkness |
| “Fair is foul and foul is fair…” | witches, reversal of morality and influence of supernatural |
| “There's no art/ To find the mind's construction in the face./ He was a gentle man on whom I built/ An absolute trust.” | Duncan, deceptive appearances |
| "The thane of Cawdor lives; why do you dress me/ In borrowed robes?” | Macbeth, clothing imagery |
| “… I must report they were/ As cannons overcharged with double cracks… or memorize another Golgatha.” | Captain/Sergeant, allusion and anachronism |
| "But, tis strange;/ And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,/ The instruments of darkness tell us truths,/ Win us with honest trifles, to betray's/ In deepest consequence." | Banquo, deceptive appearances and influence of supernatural |
| “This guest of summer,/ The temple-haunting martlet, does approve/ By his loved mansionry that heaven’s breath/ Smells wooingly here.” | Banquo, Bird imagery |
| “Away, and mock the time with fairest show;/ False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” | Macbeth, deceptive appearances |
| “To show an unfelt sorrow is an office/ Which the false man does easy.” | Malcolm, deceptive appearances |
| “…Lest our old robes sit easier than our new.” | Macduff, clothing imagery |
| “My hands are of your color, but I shame/ To wear a heart so white.” | Lady Macbeth, color imagery |
| “Here lay Duncan,/ His silver skin laced with his golden blood…” | Macbeth, color imagery |
| “Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor/ Shall sleep nor more; Macbeth shall sleep no more.” | Macbeth, sleeplessness |
| “… and with those/ That would make good of bad, and friends of foes!” | Old Man, reversal of morality |
| “A heavy summons lies like lead upon me,/ And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers/ Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature/ Gives way to in repose.” | Banquo, sleeplessness |
| “There’s daggers in men’s smiles; the near in blood, the nearer bloody.” | Donalbain, deceptive appearances |
| “I heard the owl cry…” | Lady Macbeth, bird imagery |
| Now o’er one half-world/Nature seems dead and wicked dreams abuse/ The curtained sleep; witchcraft celebrates/Pale Hecate’s offerings; and withered murder/ Alarumed by his sentinel the wolf/ Whose howl‘s his watch thus his stealthy pace/With Tarquin’s... | Macbeth, sleeplessness, allusion, animal imagery |
| "Tis safer to be that which we destroy/ Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy." | Lady Macbeth, reversal of morality |
| “…my lord, sleek o’er your rugged looks…” | Lady Macbeth, deceptive appearances |
| “Augures and understood relations have/ By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth/ The secret’st man of blood.” | Macbeth, bird imagery and influence of supernatural |
| Tragedy | dramatic or narrative writing in which the main character suffers disaster after a serious and significant struggle but faces his or her downfall in such a way as to attain heroic stature |
| iambic pentameter | a line of verse having five metrical feet |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| rhymed verse | matching of sounds in two feet |
| prose | any material not written in a regular meter |
| song | lyric poem with repeating stanzas |
| anachronism | the placing of an event, person, item, or verbal expression in the wrong historical time period |
| allusion | a reference to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature within a work |
| equivocation | telling some of the truth, but not the whole truth |
| pathetic fallacy | personification where the writer ascribes human feelings to inanimate objects |
| “… by magic sleights/Shall raise such artificial sprites/ As by the strength of their illusion/ Shall draw him on to his confusion…” | Heckate, influence of supernatural, deceptive appearances |
| “…and under him,/ My genius is rebuked, as it is said/ Mark Antony’s was by Caesar.” | Macbeth, allusion |
| “He chid the sisters,/ When first they put the name of King upon me,/ And bade them speak to him; then prophetlike/ They hailed him to a line of kings.” | Macbeth, influence of supernatural |
| “… Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep/ in the affliction of the terrible dreams/ That shake us nightly…” | Macbeth, sleeplessness |
| “unsafe the while, that we must lave/ Our honors in these flattering streams/ And make our faces vizards to our hearts/ Disguising what they are.” | Macbeth, deceptive appearances |
| “Thou hast it now; King, Cawdor, Glamis, all,/ As the weird women promised…” | Banquo, influence of supernatural |
| “… better be with the dead,/ Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,/ Than on the torture of the mind to lie/ In restless ecstasy.” | Macbeth, sleeplessness |
| “Double, double, toil and trouble,/ Fire burn and caldron bubble…” | witches, influence of supernatural |
| “By the pricking of my thumbs,/ Something wicked this way comes.” | Witches, irony |
| “Infected be the air whereon they ride/ And damned all those that trust them.” | Macbeth, irony |
| “He wants the natural touch.: for the poor wren/ The most diminutive of birds, will fight,/ Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.” | Lady Macduff, bird imagery |
| “But I do remember now/ I am of this earthly world, where to do harm/ Is often laudable, to do good sometimes/ A dangerous folly.” | Lady Macduff, reversal of morality |
| “He [Macbeth] hath not touched you [Macduff] yet.” | Malcolm, irony |
| “Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.” | Malcolm, allusion |
| “No, they [Macduff’s family] were at peace when I did leave ‘em.” | Ross, equivocation |
| “Such welcomed and unwelcomed things at once/ Tis hard to reconcile.” | Macduff, paradox |
| “Now does he feel his title/ Hang lose about him, like a giant’s robe/ upon a dwarfish thief.” | Angus, clothing imagery |
| “If thou could’st, doctor, cast/ The water of my land, find her disease/ And purge it to a sound a pristine health, I would applaud thee…” | Macbeth, irony |
| “Why should I play the Roman fool, and die/ On mine own sword?” | Macbeth, allusion |
| “And be these juggling fiends no more believed,/ That palter with us in a double sense;/ That keep the word of promise to our ear,/ And break it to our hope.” | Macbeth, deceptive appearances and influence of the supernatural |
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