ENGLISH LITERATURE PAPER 1: MACBETH

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TECHNIQUES

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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

Covering Context in Macbeth (AO3)

ACT 1- Macbeth

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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

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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 well 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 undert.

Simile and use of juxtaposition

Was the hope drunk, Wherein you dressd yourself?

Rhetorical question

ACT 2-Macbeth

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I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters: To you they have showd some truth.

I think not of them

Short sentence I think not of them.

Or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

Rhetorical question

But wherefore could I not pronounce Amen? I had most need of blessing, and Amen Stuck in my throat.

Repetition of amen and biblical references

Methought I heard a voice cry Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep

Personification of sleep and repetition

What hands are here! Ha! They pluck out mine eyes. Will all Neptunes ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand?

Hyperbole

Rhetorical question

Theres daggers in mens smiles

Metaphor

Juxtaposition

ACT 2-Lady Macbeth

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Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had donet.

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 womans ear Would murder as it fell.

Irony

ACT 3- Macbeth

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I fear thou playdst 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

ACT 4

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double, double toil and trouble

Use of rhyming couplets in witches language

Something wicked this way comes

Adjective wicked

Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo. Down!Thy crown does sear mine eyeballs

Symbol of crown

He has no children. All my pretty ones? Did you say all? Oh hell-kite! All?

Short sentences

Rhetorical questions

O nation miserable, with an untitled tyrant bloody-scepterd

Personification of Scotland

Macbeth now a tyrant

this fiend of Scotland

Metaphor fiend

Devil imagery

ACT 5

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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

Ill fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked.

Violent verbs hacked

Now does he feel his title hang loose about him, like a giants 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

Treason- Gunpowder plot and King James 1

Heroism and loyalty

The Great Chain of Being

Shakespeare's Theatre

Religion

Attitudes to Women

The Divine Right of Kings

Supernatural and Witchcraft