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macbeth terms
term sheet for macbeth
| question | answer |
|---|---|
| miracle play | similar to loaves and fishes, jesus stories |
| wren analogy | instinct to protect its young, relates to macduff leaving his family behind. |
| morality play | Good and evil |
| aside | removes himself from the play. macbeth and lady macbeth do this often. |
| soliloquy | characters come out and talk. |
| apparitions | visions that arent there. Macbeth and the witches. |
| paradox | contradictory statement |
| dramatic irony | audience knows but the characters do not. |
| sleeplessness | a form of torture brought on by the witches for a women's husband whom did not give them chestnuts |
| false face | appear to be friendly but inside hate the person |
| comic relief | break of comedic acts. the porter scene. |
| scone | town in scotland where kings are crowned. |
| Thane of cawdor | Macbeth |
| bear baiting | fight between bears and dogs in which the bear is tied to a stake and then is forced to fight dogs. Macbeth feels this way towards the end against malcolm and macduff. |
| ambition | only pro to killing duncan |
| allegory | characters that represent abstract qualities. |
| Malcolm's Test for Macduff | test that eventually leads to war monger in order to see if macbeth wanted to support himself or the country. |
| beelzebub | called lord of the flies. cast down from heaven when he tried to overrule God. feasts on moral decay. |
| Roman fool | Macbeth refuses to be a roman fool and die fighting. |
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