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ENGLISH LITERATURE PAPER 1:

MACBETH

QUOTATION PACK

KEY WORDS

CHARACTERS TECHNIQUES THEMES USEFUL

SPELLINGS

SUPER VOCAB

Macbeth

Lady Macbeth

Banquo

Fleance

Macduff

Lady Macduff

Donalbain

Malcolm

King Duncun

Witches/Weird Sisters

Ross

Siward

Young Siward

Macdonald

blank verse

rhyming couplet

prose

metaphorical

symbolism

imagery

irony

soliloquy

foreshadowing

simile

personification

metaphor

dramatic irony

oxymoron

suspense

climax

betrayal

ambition

treason

remorse/guilt

deception

loyalty/trust

death/murder

morality

revenge

supernatural

heroism

respect/honour

power

greed

friendship

relationship

Shakespeare

Elizabethan

cyclical structure

apparitions

prophecies

tragedy

scene

thane

Birnam Wood

masculinity

heir

suicide

prophecy

regicide

violence

protagonist

foreboding

macabre

ominous

nemesis

antagonist

proleptic irony

paradox

iambic pentameter

equivocation

catharsis

antithesis

ambiguity

totalitarian state

pathetic fallacy

ambiance

self- fulfilling

prophecies

tragic flaw

usurper

unconventional

ACT 1- Macbeth

Quotation Technique/Key Word/Symbol/Imagery Possible Analysis Themes Links to other scenes and context ‘Brave Macbeth’ ‘noble Macbeth’ Noun phrases- use of positive adjectives ‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair’ ‘So foul and fair a day I have not seen.’ Paradox Mirrored language ‘Look, how our partner's rapt’ Use of the verb ‘rapt’ ‘Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?’ Metaphor and clothes imagery throughout play ‘Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires’ Light and dark imagery ‘I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.’ Repetition of ‘dare’ [Aside] ‘If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir’ Repetition of ‘chance’

ACT 1- Lady Macbeth

Quotation Technique/Key Word/Symbol/Imagery Possible Analysis Themes Links to other scenes and context ‘Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts! Unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top full Of direst cruelty.’ Language associated with the witches (Semantic field of evil/witchcraft) Superlative ‘direst’ ‘Yet I do fear thy nature; It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness’ Metaphor ‘milk’ “We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we’ll not fail.” Metaphor “Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out Violent verbs ‘plucked’ and ‘dashed’ ‘‘Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under’t.’ Simile and use of juxtaposition ‘Was the hope drunk, Wherein you dress’d yourself?’ Rhetorical question

ACT 2-Lady Macbeth

Quotation Technique/Key Word/Symbol/Imagery Possible Analysis Themes Links to other scenes and context ‘Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had done’t. Irony ‘These deeds must not be thought After these ways; so, it will make us mad.’ Irony ‘My hands are of your colour, but I shame To wear a heart so white.’ Juxtaposition of red and white ‘‘Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers.’ Short imperative sentences ‘A little water clears us of this deed’ Irony Adjective ‘little’ ‘O gentle lady! ‘Tis not for you to hear what I can speak; The repetition in a woman’s ear Would murder as it fell.’ Irony

ACT 3- Macbeth

Quotation Technique/Key Word/Symbol/Imagery Possible Analysis Themes Links to other scenes and context ‘I fear thou play’dst most foully for it’ Irony and repetition of word ‘foul’/’foully’ ‘O full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife’. Metaphor ‘Thou canst not say I did it; never shake thy gory locks at me’ Adjective ‘gory’ ‘Are you a man?’ ‘Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that which may appal the devil’ Rhetorical question Devil imagery ‘It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood’ Repetition of ‘blood’ ‘This is the air drawn dagger, which you said, led you to Duncan’ Reference to ‘air drawn’

Quotation Technique/Key Word/Symbol/Imagery Possible Analysis Themes Links to other scenes and context ‘Out, damn spot! Out I say!’ Irony Short broken sentences ‘Yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him’ Irony ‘all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand’ Hyperbole ‘I’ll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked.’ Violent verbs ‘hacked’ ‘Now does he feel his title hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief’ Simile Reference to clothing ‘Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles’ Repetition of ‘unnatural’ ‘Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more’ Metaphors