MACBETH, AN INSPECTOR CALLS AND A CHRISTMAS CAROL
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1 Witches supernatural Thunder and lightning Pathetic fallacy establishes a volatile (likely to change) and ominous
(something bad will happen) atmosphere
1 witches supernatural Fair is foul and foul is fair Paradox introduces the theme of appearance vs reality
Fricative ‘f’ sound is menacing and aggressive
Speak in an Oxymoron (opposite ideas) to convey the ambiguity of their
prophecies
1 Banquo supernatural Look not like th’inhabitants Banquo dehumanises the witches and their physiognomy (appearance)
o’th’earth exposes them as inhumane and evil
‘Earth' - inhumane alien like
Banquo is shown to be perceptive – he was an ancestor of James 1,
indirect form of flattery
1 Witches supernatural Instruments of darkness Metaphor
‘instruments’ noun = Banquo understands that just the way you play an
instrument, the witches will play with the lives of people in the way
Suggesting their evil musicality, words are almost hypnotic for Macbeth
Trochaic tetrameter, gives their speech an eerie songlike quality
1 Macbeth ambition Stars hide your fires let not Black = mind is full of evil and darkness
light see my black and deep Fire creates irreversible damage = Macbeth's tyrannical rule will not be
desires forgiven
Deep = desire has been with him for a long time, or he desperately wants
to hide his desires
1 Lady Too full of the milk of Noun ‘milk’ = symbol of femininity and maternal maturing
Macbeth kindness She rejects notions of femininity
1 Lady Unsex me here Imperative language
Macbeth Come, you spirits Almost like she’s casting a spell
Come thick night Welcoming evil
, Shocking for audience - her mixture of masculine and feminine qualities is
shocking because gender roles were rigid in the past
1 Macbeth ambition Valour's minion Noun ‘Minion’ = foreshadows his susceptibility to manipulation and how
he will soon be a marionette to the witches
1 Macbeth violence Disdaining fortune … smok’d Depicted as violent
with bloody execution ‘Smok'd’ = connotes to heat and hell to foreshadow his evil
1 Macbeth Super So foul and fair a day I have First words in the play echo the witch's paradox
natural not seen Immediately becomes a mouthpiece for the supernatural
1 Macbeth ambition Doth unfix my hair and make Witches have affected him internally and Externally
my seated heart knock at my
ribs
1 Macbeth Super Why do you dress me in Been awarded a title that doesn’t belong to him
natural Borrow'd robes Extends the motif of clothes
His ascension through the hierarchy is superficial and transient
1 Macbeth ambition Vaulting ambition which ‘Vaulting’ = emphasises the size of ambition, appears like a human like
overleaps itself force, controlling and plaguing his innocent mind
2 Banquo I dreamed last night of the The prophecy is trespassing on his unconscious
three weird sisters Banquo shows man's reaction to temptation
Honest to Macbeth
2 Macbeth guilt Is this a dagger which I see Rhetorical question, shows his internal conflict and confusion which
before me the handle foreshadows his future madness
towards my hand? Come let ‘Handle towards my hand’ = ridding himself for the responsibility of the
me clutch thee murder because the handle is pointing towards him, feels like he’s been
forced
2 Lady guilt I shame to wear a heart so She emasculates Macbeth by ridiculing his cowardice
Macbeth white Adjective ‘white’ connotes to innocence and purity, embarrassed of her
husband's innocence, she is mocking his pure and moral heart
Ridicules his cowardice
2 Lady guilt Had he not resembled my Excuse exposes her cowardice and hypocrisy
Macbeth father as he slept, I had done
it
2 Lady guilt A little water clears us of this Little = Uses litotes to downplay the murder and Macbeth’s guilt
Macbeth deed
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