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MACBETH KEY QUOTES WITH ANALYSISEXAM GRADED A+
"Fair is foul and foul is fair,
Hover through the fog and filthy air" - -• Characters: Witches
• Themes: Supernatural, Fate
•Trochaic Tetrameter - lends a mysterious tone and sounds as if a spell is
being cast.
• Chiasmus - points out the paradox and similarity between two terms - links
to the impression Lady Macbeth gives "look like the innocent flower, but be
the serpent under't"
• Imagery - foreshadows downfall of Macbeth and the confusion that
underlies the plot. Questions the moral goodness of any reality.
-"And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray's
In deepest consequence" - -• Characters: Banquo
• Themes : Violence, Fate and Ambition
• Paradox - are the witches dictating the futures Macbeth and Banquo will
have? Are they exploiting them?
• Noun phrase "tell us truths" - nothing they can recount is false.
• More Paradox - "Honest trifles" that "betray" - prophecies are genuine, but
the components are insignificant. The "instruments of darkness" will use
prophecies to manipulate him and Macbeth.
• Suspicion - Banquo resists, Macbeth adheres - showing the belief that
posits a worldwode view on humans acting freely from the influence of the
supernatural.
Shakespeare uses these two characters to present responses to supernatural
presence: as maneuvering or merely recounting fate.
-"Stars hide your fires, Let not light see my black and deep desires" - -•
Characters: Macbeth
• Themes: Ambition, Violence, Supernatural and Deception
, • Noun phrase - "Stars, hide your fires" shows that Macbeth wishes to remain
in complete darkness and invisible, so that his "deep desires" can not be
observed.
• Metaphors of "light" and "dark" - "dark" stands for Macbeths moral
unscrupulousness.
• "Light" is personified to be an active agent that can "see" into desires;
possibly a supernatural force that scrutunizes human actions.
• Macbeth may believe in a God-like figure who will judge his actions. His
concern does not lie with views of other human beings, just for the
supernatural - showing his impending allegiance to the supernatural - shows
his guilt complex.
-"Come, you spirits [...] to cry, 'hold, hold'" - -• Characters: Lady Macbeth
• Themes: Supernatural, Ambition
• In contrast with Banquo, who wants to avoid the supernatural, Lady
Macbeth wants to embrace it. she wishes to cast off her feminism as she
sees it as keeping her from committing vile actions "unsex me here" =>
Context about gender roles, women are innocent, men are powerful and in
command.
• "take my milk for gall" - a nurturing procedure used for something evil (gall
= acid).
• Constant references to body parts show that not only does Lady Macbeth
want to cast off gender, but also all humanity - showing a paradoxical
confirmation that there is an inherent goodness to human nature and Lady
Macbeth wants it removed.
• Humans may use the supernatural as a corruptive path away from
goodness - Banquo subverts this and runs to goodness.
-"Look like th'innocent flower, but be the serpent under't" - -•Characters:
Lady Macbeth
• Themes: Violence and Deception
• Passive image "innocent flower" juxtaposes active corruption of "the
serpent", reflecting the ideas of "fair" and "foul" in Act 1, Scene 1. Distinction
is not a predicament, but becomes a specific strategy to gain political power.
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