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the killing of a parent or other near relative
What is parricide
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This is a recurring symbol of doom or something evil that shows up before Banquo is murdered.
What is stormy weather?
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"Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, / As the weird women promis’d"
Who is Banquo
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murdered in Scene 3
Who is Banquo
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the witches' master
Who is Hecate
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something that is unable to be destroyed, long lasting
What is indissoluble
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This echoes a metaphor previously used by Lady Macbeth.
What is Macbeth referring to himself as a 'vessel' filled with 'hostility'?
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“Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck / Till thou applaud the deed.”
Who is Macbeth
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In Scene 4, he sat in Macbeth's seat at the feast
Who is Banquo's ghost
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planning a rebellion in England
Who is Macduff
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a gash or cut
What is scotch'd
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By comparing him to this, Macbeth is also comparing Banquo to the devil.
What is a snake?
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“What man dare, I dare: / Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear"
Who is Macbeth
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what was being coordinated in England by Macduff
What is a rebellion
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the amount of murderers in this act
What is 3
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has no match or equal, unrivaled
What is nonpareil
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At the supper, Lady Macbeth compares Macbeth's hallucinations to this.
What is a woman telling scary stories by a fire?
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"As by the strength of their illusion / Shall draw him on to his confusion: / He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear / His hopes ‘bove wisdom, grace, and fear;”
Who is Hecate
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left out in Macbeth's new plans of murder
Who is Lady Macbeth
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Banquo's son
Who is Fleance
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kept away from the outside world; sheltered
What is cloistered
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This is another recurring concept that Macbeth brings up in his personification of night.
What is deception/hiding ones intentions?
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"Things have been strangely borne. The gracious Duncan / Was pitied of Macbeth: marry, he was dead: / And the right-valiant Banquo walk’d too late; / Whom, you may say, if’t please, Fleance kill’d / For Fleance fled: men must not walk too late"
Who is Lennox
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what Macbeth did to keep an eye on all of the thanes
What is send out spies
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synonym for soliloquy
What is monologue