Context
This royal is the person for whom Shakespeare wrote Macbeth.
King James I
“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.”
the witches
Macbeth messed up the murder plan by doing this.
taking the guards' daggers with him
This was the first of the second set of premonitions Macbeth received from the witches
Beware Macduff
Two opposite ideas that are true at the same time
paradox
These two characters were ancestors of the person for whom Shakespeare wrote this play
Banquo and Fleance
"Your face, my thane, is as a book where men/ May read strange matters. To beguile the time,/ Look like the time"
Lady Macbeth
Lady Macbeth asks the evil spirits to do this to her
Make her more like a man
This is why the doctor is called in for Lady Macbeth
she has been sleepwalking
Name two recurring motifs from the play
daggers, blood, darkness, hallucinations, dreams, sleep
The first theaters were built OUTSIDE of London because of this.
to prevent spreading the plague
“This murderous shaft that’s shot hath not yet lighted, and our safest way is to avoid the aim.”
Malcolm
The original Thane Cawdor was executed for his
treason
This is the moment when Macbeth's subjects start turning away from him.
When he sees Banquo at the banquet
This is what Macbeth hallucinated before killing King Duncan.
a dagger
These are the three categories Shakespeare's plays all fit in
comedies, tragedies, histories
“Oftentimes to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness do tell us truths.”
Banqo
good kind, M is subject, M is host, everyone would be sad, revenge, karma
Explain how the very final prophecy of the witches became true.
Macduff was born by surgery
Macbeth killing the guards
This group gained power in England and was responsible for banning plays and ending the Renaissance
the Puritans
"From this moment,/ The very firstlings of my heart shall be/ The firstlings of my hand. And even now/ To crown my thoughts with acts — be it thought and done"
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth remarks this is the reason she couldn't help physically kill King Duncan
he looked like her father
This is how Macbeth felt after hearing of Lady Macbeth's demise.
It didn't matter because life is meaningless
This is what Macbeth also killed when he murdered King Duncan
sleep