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From Act 1 Scene 1 to Act 2 Scene 2

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Witches

ā€œFair is foul and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy airā€

ā€œKilling swineā€

ā€œIā€™ll drain him dry as hayā€

ā€œThough his bark cannot be lostā€ (power is limited)

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Witches (power + bg interference)

ā€œSo foul and fair a day I have not seenā€ - Macbeth

ā€œLike Valourā€™s minionā€

ā€œWhat he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath wonā€ - King

ā€œNature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuseā€ - Macbeth

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Duncan

ā€œThis castle hath a pleasant seatā€ (pity for him - cutie pie)

ā€œvirtuesā€ ā€œangelsā€ ā€œtrumpetā€ ā€œnew-born babeā€ ā€œcherubinā€ - (pity, he is innocent + accociated with heavenly imagery - divinely appointed)

ā€œThis diamond he greets your wife withalā€ - Banquo

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Banquo

ā€œOr have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisonerā€ (skeptical)

ā€œThe instruments of darkness tell us truthsā€¦ to betrayā€™s in deepest consequenceā€

ā€œAnd yet I would not sleepā€ (not giving into nighmares from witches)

ā€œBut still keep My bosom franchised and allegiance clearā€

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Lady Macbeth

ā€œThat I may pour my sprirts in thine earā€

ā€œCome you spiritsā€¦unsex me hereā€

ā€œCome to my womanā€™s breasts, and take my milk for gallā€

ā€œI wouldā€¦have plucked the niplle from his boneless gums, and dashed the brains outā€

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Macbeth (othersā€™ POV)

ā€œFor brave Macbethā€¦disdaining fortuneā€

ā€œO valiant cousin, worthy gentlemanā€

ā€œO worthiest cousinā€

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Macbeth according to L.M

ā€œThy nature is too full oā€™theā€™ milk of human kindnessā€

ā€œWas the hope drunk Wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since?ā€

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Lady Macbeth and Macbeth relationship

ā€œMy dearest partner of greatnessā€ - Macbeth

ā€œMy dearest loveā€ - Macbeth

ā€œFrom this time Such I accound my loveā€ - Lady Macbeth

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Macbethā€™s honourable vs dishonourable violence

Honourable:

ā€œunseamed him from the nave to thā€™ chops, and fixed his head upon our battlementsā€

Dishonourable:

ā€œWhat cannot you and I perform upon Thā€™ unguarded Duncanā€ - LM

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Not looking on what heā€™s done (Macbeth)

ā€œThe eye wink at the handā€

ā€œhangmanā€™s handsā€

ā€œIā€™l go no more. I am afraid to think what I have doneā€

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Macbeth attitude towards the murder

ā€œIf it were done, when ā€˜tis done, then ā€˜twere well it were done quicklyā€

ā€œWe still have judgement hereā€

I have no spurā€¦ but only vaulting ambition, which oā€™er leaps itself, and falls on thā€™ otherā€

ā€œGolden opinions from all sorts of peopleā€

ā€œThat summons thee to heaven, or to hellā€ (end of 2.1, reminder where Macbeth is going, structurally just before murder)

ā€œIā€™l go no more. I am afraid to think what I have doneā€ - Macbeth

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Lady Macbethā€™s attitude towards the murder

ā€œA foolish thought to say a sorry sightā€

ā€œThe sleeping and the dead Are but as picturesā€

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Euphemisms for murder

ā€œgreat businessā€

ā€œterrible featā€ ā€œshowā€

ā€œBloody businessā€

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Stars/heaven/earth watching

ā€œBut signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine on all deserversā€ - King Duncan

ā€œStars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desiresā€ - Macbeth

ā€œNor heaven peep through the blanket of the darkā€ - Lady Macbeth

ā€œHear not my stepsā€¦ for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereaboutā€ - Macbeth

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Appearance vs reality

ā€œLook like the innocent flower, but be the serpent underā€™tā€ - LM

ā€œFalse face must hide what the false heart doth knowā€ - Macbeth

ā€œArt thou not, fatal vison, sensibleā€ (dagger scene)

ā€œA dagger of the mind, a false creationā€

ā€œIn form as palpable As this which now I drawā€ (turning point)

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Fate vs Free Will

ā€œDisdaining fortuneā€

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Temporal Chaos

ā€œThe letters have transported me beyond, This ignorant present, and I feel now the future in the instantā€

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Lack of Clarity + Reason

ā€œThat memoryā€¦shal be a fumeā€

ā€œThe reciept of reason A limbeck onlyā€

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Guilt

ā€œBloodā€ ā€œBloody businessā€ (blood as a symbol of guilt)

ā€œI could not say ā€˜Amenā€™ā€ - Macbeth

ā€œWash this filthy witcness from your handā€ - Lady Macbeth

His hand will turn ā€œThe multitudionous sea incarnadineā€ - Macbeth

ā€œAnd make my seated heart knock at my ribsā€ - Macbeth

ā€œI hear a knockingā€ ā€œHark, more knockingā€ (Knocking of concience)

ā€œWake Duncan with thy knocking. I would thou couldst.ā€ - Macbeth

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Fear

ā€œPresent fears are less than horrible imaginingsā€ - Macbeth

ā€œIā€™ll go no more. I am afraid to think what I have doneā€ - Macbeth

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Nature

ā€œNature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuseā€ - Macbeth

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Sleep

ā€œMacbeth does muder sleepā€

ā€œinncoentā€ ā€œcareā€ ā€œbathā€ ā€œbalmā€ ā€œnourisherā€ ā€œfeastā€

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Clothes motif

ā€œWhy do you dress me in borrowed robesā€ - Macbeth

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