Macbeth Act 1 quotes

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GCSE English Lit

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fair is foul and foul is fair

Witches: start = confusion, chaos, disorder. supernatural

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Like valour’s minion

Captain: M is brave. Admired.

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What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won

Duncan: Juxtapos, foreshad, echo witches

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why do you start and seem to fear things that do sound so fair?

Banquo: witches echo, B is questioning/more cautious

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5

why do you dress me in borrowed robes?

Macbeth: clothing imagery = deception.

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there’s no art to find the minds construction in the face

Duncan: appearance vs reality. dramatic irony because he gets betrayed multiple times.

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but signs of nobleness shall shine on all deservers

Duncan: celestial imagery - CONTEXT, great chain of being

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stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires

Macbeth: aside. divine consequence. dark = violence/evil stars = light/morality. about to do something bad. against the moral path

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9

too full o’th milk of human kindness

Lady M: milk = innocence/childhood. attacking Macbeths’ masculinity

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10

look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it'

Lady M: snake = devil in bible(context) = deception

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11

vaulting ambition

Macbeth: reason for killing king = only ambition

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12

false face must hide what the false heart doth know

Macbeth: deception - hiding true self with mask

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13

return to plague th’inventor

Macbeth: concerned about consequences - disease/sin = divine conseq.

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when you durst do it then you were a man

Lady M: manipulation, manliness

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