Macbeth

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Macbeth

• Key Quotes

Act One
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Act One, Scene One

• Duplicity- when the battles lost,
• and won.
• Fair is foul, and foul
  is fair.
• Setting- A desolate place.
• Thunder and lightning.

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Act One, Scene Two

• Imagery-
• As sparrows, eagles, or the hare, the lion.
• Character-
• For brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name-
• What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.
• Strong Word Choice-
• memorise another Golgotha.

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Act One Scene 3

• Duplicity Lesser than Macbeth, and greater
• not so happy, yet much
  happier.
• Though shalt get kings
  though thou be none.
• Character Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell
  me more
• Conflict Would they had stayed
• Were such things here as we do
  speak about
• Soliloquy My thought, whose murder yet is but
  fantastical

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Act One scene 4

• Dramatic irony Theres no art,
• To find the
  minds construction in the face.
• He was a
  gentleman on whom I built
• An absolute
  trust.
• (enter
  Macbeth)
• Character- Let not light see my black and deep
  desires,
• The eye wink at the
  hand.
• 
  

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Act One, Scene Five

• Imagery-
• Look like thinnocent flower, but be the
  serpent undert.
• Character-
• Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be
• What thou art promised
• That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here
• And fill me from the crown to the toe topfull
• Of direst cruelty make thick my blood

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Act One, Scene Six

• Dramatic Irony
• This castle hath a pleasant seat
• Fair and noble hostess,
• Setting-
• the air
• Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself
• Unto our gentle senses.
• Character and Dramatic Irony
• We rest your hermits.

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Act One, Scene 7

• Euphemisms-
• If it were done when tis done, the twere well
• It were done quickly. If thassassination
• Imagery-
• False face must hide what the heart doth know.
• Metaphor-
• But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
• Character-
• I dare do all that may become a man
• Word Choice-
• the ornament of life,