Macbeth - AQA GCSE English Literature

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• Duncan's sons called malcolm donalbain
• Macbeth victim makes tragic hero burton man's melancholy
• Act macbeth scene shakespeare audience choice fate shakespeare’s
• Macbeth crowned king scone is
• Scene world shakespeare dramatic technique juxtaposing scenes: each contrasts
• Duncan possess qualities great king noble nurturing responsible
• Duncan shown a just and benevolent ruler demonstrating important aspects
• Thou address  to rank addressed as  intimacy speaker
• Convey tended speakers used   to respect formality public
• Simile stars shine connotes divine power implying rewarded afterlife
• I belzebub create physical manifestations sins condemn hell
• Thou bible  and  pronouns original modern  in king
• Frederic b tromly path hell trodden reserved spectacular
• Battle start macbeth a microcosm play
• Contrast dark atmosphere play porter comic relief act
• Banquo macbeth act suspects murder fleance escapes haunted
• Lady macbeth guilt increasingly consumed alienated shield murder
• Macbeth king increasingly tyrannical paranoid murders threaten embarks
• Macbeth act scene macduff confronts man responsible murder
• Final speech play malcolm son england king grants
• Witch angry sailor's wife wh give chestnuts wife's
• Make image ship tossed winds waves struggling safe
• Macduff's act witches show macbeth future kings sons
• Witches wind charm immediately macbeth banquo enter scene
• Macbeth lady act sleepwalks commits suicide macduff kills
• Duncan king malcolm lines portrayed stage gentle kindly
• Lady macbeth impression directors keen suggest psychologically unstable
• Macbeth uses soliloquies make audience complicit
• Lady sections macbeth's speech divided lines beginning word
• Macbeth's hamartia easily influenced/ambiton could
• Soliloquy lady macbeth's lines form macbeth arrives language
• Duncan i thee portrayed invested followers says,  begun
• Events unified sequence telling single clear narrative
• Tragic characters c1 important part tragedy correct better ≈
• Liza pickard blame calamities tragedies
• Lady macbeth macbeth's lines filled double meaning provided
• Macbeth's macbeth likeable introduced hero courage duty foundations
• Appearance reality act scene continues develop theme emerged
• Macbeth lady common mental impact nervousness anxiety make
• Deed scene act i line witches talk script
• Macbeth's ambition worst enemy macbeth motivated trapped leads
• Lines elaborate image alchemy drunkeness make king's attendants
• Lady macbeth adjectives duplicitous manipulative dominant powerful determined
• Banquo adjectives loyal paternal intuitive virtuous allegiant diplomatic
• King duncan adjectives ignorant naive trusting respectful weak
• Macduff adjectives candid aggressive emotional resolute tenacious fierce
• Witches adjectives prophetic equivocal scheming sinister devious threatening
• Weird sisters {{c1::"are personification dramatizing dark promptings swarm soul
• Gates porter scene act called comic relief conveys
• Weird alter egos sisters comical witches prophesying duality
• Witches macbeth's tempt make prophecies future murder portrayed
• Shakespeare witches style speaking rhythmic language charms curses
• Relationship macbeth wife dominates acts productions show loving
• Macbeth complex relationship lady develops rapidly play c2::their
• Macbeth lady duncan smearing blood partners crime.  c2::although
• Macbeth play lady stronger character overturning traditional ideas
• Macbeth lady duncan's murder king queen maintain innocent
• I point free macbeth's argue light control fate
• Macbeth dagger duncan argue macbeth's figure mother phallic
• Loyalty loyal play suggests complex conflicted concept character
• Ghost progeny fourth apparition ghostly kings banquo secure
• Tree child macbeth malcolm apparition crowned holding signifies
• Fate macbeth's sealed prophecy shakespeare showing witches witness
• Macbeth kites lady shakespeare’s chickens considered birds in 
• Supernatural macbeth banquo shakespeare presents attitudes play prophecies
• Ambition lady macbeth shakespeare presents play power ideas
• Lady macbeth shakespeare power ideas presents macbeth’s act
• Macbeth murder powerful shakespeare lady power order woman
• Duncan successful monarch seek kill admire riles macbeth
• Fair shakespeare shows duncan governs fairly country rewards good
• Macbeth ultimately heroic refuses give hope lost persists
• Macbeth tragic simply puppet higher authorities stead curses
• Shakespeare macbeth choice explore presents thesis set century
• Choice macbeth play opening witches shakespeare presents and 
• Prophecies macbeth play macbeth  the  choice evident coming
• Macbeth act kill murder actions whilst chance elide
• Writing macbeth understanding tragedy concept knowledge tragic hero
• Lady macbeth milk gall violation sexual/natural order poison
• Macbeth moments truth unusually close relationship follow unlike
• Lady macbeth evil holinshed describes violent brutal women
• Macbeth good hero relate consistent behaviour reveal fatal
• Unity action play aristotle's definition tragedy creation minimal
• Plot important part tragedy character aristotle imitation life
• Lady macbeth macbeth’s the  king act scene of 
• Lady macbeth macbeth’s macbeth's moment enters series images
• Duncan benevolent stars i thee ruler shown demonstarting
• Duncan fair ruler shakespeare shows governs c4::fairly country
• Duncan heir produces jacobean audience trouble monarch dying
• Duncan trusting ruler and  dependent perfect king leading
• Duncan learn impossible mistakes macbeth duncan's trusted thanes
• Macbeth brave start play ideal qualities noble king
• Witches used rhyme create chant-like supernatural atmosphere
• Throne macbeth ascension time duncan complete back play
• Throne macbeth ascension time duncan complete back play
• Throne macbeth ascension time duncan complete back play
• Callous sweep macbeth's leadership audience insight peoples opinions
• Lack lineage banquo resents macbeth's macbeth’s poor kingship
• Death king reaction duncan’s compared macbeth’s reflective ruled
• Death duncan’s murder king night good earth deed
• Macbeth death king contrast macbeth’s celebrated ​by subjects
• Macduff macbeth ​l oyal statesman kill speak country
• Macduff bleed country happy throne good thou thy
• Throne malcolm malcolm's ascension finally takes rightful place
• ​and macduff innocent lamb angry power malcolm macbeth
• Country malcolm's patriotism shakespeare portrays malcolm epitome pure
• Initial situation king duncan nice man advantage traitors
• Kingship king power ​and macbeth action edward ​of
• Tragic wrong human tragedies stranger person kind understands
• Macbeth macduff witches banquo thane lady duncan’s current
• Witches shakespeare witchcraft audience macbeth  thought animals act
• Witches verse lines make number god language speak
• Macbeth banquo act scene witches battle time introduces
• Witches act scene banquo describes film starring macbeth
• Macbeth porter human committed actions man hell gate
• Lady macbeth scene macbeth’s act the  passage king
• Lady macbeth macbeth’s macbeth's moment enters series images
• Scene lady act macbeth macbeth’s play mind final
• Scene themes act thematic complexity passage explains continues
• Scene lady macbeth dench’s act dench husband conversation
• Darkness performed macbeth that   was plays staged shakespeare’s
• Darkness macbeth play duncan literal metaphorical special alternations
• Darkness macbeth lady night dark macbeth’s banquo deeds
• Lady macbeth woman macbeth’s gender shakespeare’s part human
• Malcolm macbeth act scene macduff macbeth’s setting final
• Malcolm macbeth king malcolm’s language duncan macbeth’s words
• Malcolm duncan macbeth play king presents act dramatic
• Macbeth's scene malcolm malcolm's macbeth directors tragic power
• Birds william shakespeare utilizes macbeth metaphors describe qualities
• Knocking action actii scene iii begins continuation heard
• Porter man hell gate turning key comedic character
• I pray remember porter john b harcourt farmer
• Farmer macbeth acts interests solely focused ascension actions
• Macbeth treason equivocator committed high compelled selfish callous
• Garnett garnett's father shakespeare equivocation blood tailor equivicator
• Place hell devil-porter porter imaginary role simply people
• Professions i thought primrose everlasting bonfire porter desired
• Remember i pray porter instruction directed macduff lennox
• Porter drunk low bred obscene lower class unintelligent
• Porter macbeth macbeth's lady art thou act actions
• Alcohol shakespeare's plays drink sir great provoker things
• Farmer equivocator tailor macbeth's hell shakespeare key points
• Macbeth act banquo meet witches thane cawdor executed
• Macbeth act kills duncan malcolm flees crowned
• King macbeth conflict witches  announce scotland e.g current
• King complication dead long live spurring lady macbeth
• Ghost macbeth climax hunters macbeth's murdered friend banquo
• Suspense power hungry macbeth naively interprets wëird sisters
• Man macbeth conclusion i part prophecy fulfilled macbeth stands
• Macbeth denouement fool shame surprise turns trust witches
• Macbeth captain fortune damnèd quarrel smiling show'd rebel's
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• Spongy drink-sodden
• Quell slaughter  murder
• Mettle spirit
• Received interpreted
• Clamour loud shouting
• Settled unchanging
• Bend ready make tense frame bow
• Corporal agent part each every
• Mock tie deceive world the
• Act scene desolate place witches vow meet macbeth
• Act scene king duncan's camp forres duncan hopes
• Hurly-burly fighting confusion
• Ere before
• Heath wilderness
• I witches address familiar spitits demons helped evil
• Graymalkin grey cat
• Paddock toad
• Alarum trumpet call battle warn danger
• Stage within off
• Plight unfortunate condition
• Newest state latest condition
• Sergeant  soldier time equivalent captain
• Hardy brave
• Fought captivity rescued capture me
• Broil battle
• Choke art simmers cling stop swimming drown
• End to that for
• Kerns lightly armed soldiers sword bow arrows
• Galloglasses heavily armed soldiers carrying heavy battle axe
• Fortune fickle luck
• Valour's minion bravery's favourite
• Carved passage sliced his out
• Unseamed ripped open him
• Nave th'chaps navel jaws to
• Gins reflection begins fade his
• Direful dreadful terrible
• Mark pay attenion
• Skipping leaping fright in
• Trust heels run their away
• Surveying vantage opportunity seeing an
• Furbished polished cleaned
• Sooth speak truth say the
• Cracks canno shots
• Doubly redoubled eightfold blows
• Reeking streaming blood with
• Memorise golgotha re-enact slaughter christ's crucifixion
• Smack taste saviour
• Thane head clan scotland of
• Visible looks is
• Flout mock jeer
• Bellona roman goddess war of
• Bridegroom macbeth married war who
• Lapped proof clad armour in
• Self-comparisons similar actions
• Point sword against to
• Curbing restraining contraining
• Lavish unrestrained impetuous
• Composition peace treatu
• Deign permit
• Saint colm's inch isle incholm
• Dollars english word german thaler large silver coin
• Bosom interest heartfelt concerns
• Present immediate
• Title thane cawdor former of
• Quoth said
• Aroint thee clear off
• Rump-fed well-fed selfish indulgent
• Runnion general term abuse woman
• Aleppo trading city northern syria part turkish empire
• Tiger english ship called finally arrived home disastrous
• Sieve  sailing sieves thought common practice witches
• Wind witches imagined control were
• Ports blow winds prevent ships entering
• Quarters geographical directions
• Card compass
• Penthouse lid eyelid
• Forbid cursed
• Seenights weeks sennight days one
• Weeks times x nine 9
• Peak pine waste and away
• Bark  small ship
• Pilot guide steers ships harbour
• Establish i declare scotland's king
• Invest endow clothe and also
• Inverness location macbeth's castle the
• Harbinger messenger officer prepared king's visit
• Eye wink hand unaware fatal blow
• Full supremely so
• Commendations praises recommendations or
• Peerless  comparison beyond
• Day success victory battles in
• Perfectest report reliable source information
• Missives messangers
• Coming ttime future the on
• Thou art promised king what
• Catch nearest act pity the
• Illness evil
• Holily fairly evil without
• Hie hurry
• Chastise  punish remove and
• Golden round crown
• Metaphysical supernatural
• Withal as well
• Tidings news
• Speed overtook had the of
• Tending attention accomodation
• Unsex remive feminine feelings me
• Compunctious  compassionate
• Visitings nature natural feelings tendencies
• Fell deadly
• Gall bitter poison
• Pall wrap funeral cloak as
• Dunnest darkest
• Keen  sharp eager
• All-hail future kingship hereafter
• Instant  in the now
• Beguile deceive
• Solely sovereign sway command king
• Clear innocent look up appear
• Guilty alter dear face favour reveals fear results
• Hautboys musical instuments similar oboes
• Torches suggests scene takes place night
• Seat position location
• Martlet martin migratory bird easily fooled shakespeare's time
• Approve prove
• Masionry state dwelling of a
• Jutty part building projects outwards
• Frieze decorative band
• Coign vantage convenient place of
• Pendent hanging
• Procreant cradle nest
• Love offered burden received grateful
• God yield reward us me
• Single weak
• Contend balance weigh
• Loads fills
• Past honours those of old
• Late dignities recent honourse
• Rest hermits pray constantly we
• Coursed  chased hunted
• Purveyor officer riding ahead prepare food
• Holp helped
• Count trust totally in or
• Make audit show accounts give
• Still always
• Leave permission your by with
• Hautboys torches stage directions call musicians light-bearers
• Consequences trammel net catch bird cloth wrap bind
• Surcease duncan's death his
• Be-all end-all final act consequences
• Jump life risk heaven's punishment
• Inventor originator action of the
• Chalice cup globet
• Faculties powers king as
• Clear innocent
• Taking-off duncan's murder  his
• Cherubin angelic children
• Sightless couriers  wind blind invisible messangers
• Spur th'other  i motivation kill duncan ambition
• Screw courage sticking place suggests archer turning crossbow
• But only
• Place screw sticking fix courage firmly move
• Chamberlains attendants bodyguards
• Wassail drinking
• Convince overpower
• Tension element text evokes emotions worry anxiety fear
• Fume believed alcohol caused drunkeness
• Receipt receptacle
• Limbeck device distilling alchik used
• Swinish sleep sleeping snoring pigs
• Emasculation man made feel weak useless person manly
• Great chain belief popular early modern europe hierarchy
• Equivocation  ambiguity double signification view mislead
• Regicide act killing king  the
• Predestination belief fate decided the
• Eponymous  character’s title  the name
• Tyrant cruel oppressive ruler a
• Malign  evil intent in
• Dum da trochaic tetrameter meet
• Da dum iambic pentameter dum  seeds time
• Rhyming couplet pair lines a
• Agency choice
• Jacobean time king james i
• Verb modal expresses happen should/would/could
• Equivocation ambiguity double signification view mislead
• Malign evil intent in
• Eponymous character's title name is
• Tyrant cruel oppressive ruler and
• Rhyming couplet pair lines of
• Agency choice
• Jacobean time king james i
• Drenched drunken
• Put impose upon
• Soliloquy character speaking audience macbeth make complicit
• Audience dramatic irony characters duncan die
• Hamartia tragic flaw macbeth's easily influenced ambition
• Hurly,burly fighting confusion
• Ere before
• Heath wilderness
• I witches address familiar spirits demons helped evil
• Graymalkin grey cat
• Paddock toad
• Alarum trumpet call battle warn danger
• Within  stage off
• Plight unfortunate
• Plight newest state
• Sergeant soldier time equivalent captain
• Sergeant soldier time equivalent captain
• Hardy brave
• Fought captivity rescued capture me
• Broil battle
• Choke art swimmers cling stop swimming drown
• End to that for
• Kerns  lightly armed soldiers sword bow arrows
• Galloglasses heavily armed soldiers carrying heavy battle axe
• Fortune  fickle luck
• Valour's minion bravery's favourite  
• Carved passage sliced out his
• Unseamed ripped open him
• Banquo's son fleance what is
• Macbeth concerned start act witches initially predicted banquo's
• Banquo son macbeth hires murderers kill fleance escapes
• Macbeth banquet lady lennox ross lords
• Macbeth banquet ghost banquo appears reacts mixture terror
• Macbeth lady response macbeth's behaviour banquet plays times
• Macbeth begin prepare war heard malcolm macduff england
• Blamed banquo's murder fleance who's
• Lennox lord call macbeth tyrant murdered duncan banquo
• Sirrah affectionate sir use of
• Dead metaphorically absent or
• Desolate shade remote place
• Fast firmly tightly
• Mortal fatal daily
• Jealousies suspicions
• Lay thou thy basis rest secure
• Check limit control
• Boot to as well
• Absolute total
• Luxurious lustful lecherous
• Avaricious greedy grasping
• Sudden rash violent
• Smacking flavour having the of
• Voluptuousness lust
• Cistern tank
• Division variety
• Individual several
• Concord peace
• Uproar throw confusion into
• Truest issue legitimate heir
• Interdiction condemnation
• Blaspheme breed slander family his
• Coveted desired
• Here-approach arrival here
• Point prepared war at a
• Journey now we'll together
• Betimes swiftly
• Means intervening conditions
• Once ever
• Rend tear
• Marked unnoticed not go
• Modern ecstasy everyday feeling
• Ere or before
• Nice accurate
• Doth hiss speaker stale news
• Teems birth gives to
• Niggard miser
• Latch catch
• General the cause everyone
• Fee-grief personal sorrow
• Heaviest saddest
• Quarry slaughtered animals help of
• Pull hat brows gesture sorrow melancholy
• Naught wicked
• Demerits faults
• Whetstone sharpening stone
• Play mine eyes weep
• Braggart boaster
• Intermission pause action in
• Front face fave to
• Murky dark
• Account duncan's murder call macbeths
• Thane fife macduff of
• Mar starting spoil nervousness you
• Remonstrance go to well a
• Perfumes arabia spices of
• Set write down
• Seem appear to be
• Guise custom
• Meet  fitting
• Effects appearances
• Watching waking
• Directly immediately
• On's on his
• Sorely charged heavily burdened
• Dignity body sake life the
• Practice professional ability skill
• Mated confused
• Divine priest
• Foul whisp'rings abroad terrible rumours circulating
• Drum colours drummer flagbearer and
• Revenges man malcolm macduff fighting strong dying dead
• Dear precious
• Bleeding running blood with
• Mortified dead
• File list
• Unrough manhood unbearded young men inexperienced battle
• Buckle belt rule  sick government control force
• Cynne senna plant purge cleanse body
• Bane ruin
• Profit money doctors thought greedy shakespeare's time
• Chambers bedrooms duncan murdered was
• Shadow conceal
• Owe won own have
• Ague fever
• Forced reinforced
• Dareful defiant
• Beard face hand-to-hand combat to
• Hair fell body my of
• Start frighten
• Petty small insignificant
• Lady macbeth died word time mourn inevitably
• Syllable smallest part the
• Recorded written down
• Referencing lady macbeth's taper candle act scene
• Poor player bad actor
• Leafy screens  branches
• Clamorous harbingers noisy forerunners trumpet blasts
• Abhorrèd detested
• Roman play fool commit suicide defeated generals fell
• Lives  living beings
• Charged weighted
• Terms words
• Thou losest labour waste effort
• Intrenchant uncuttable
• Keen sharp
• Impress mark
• Crests helmets heads
• Angel devil satan
• Untimely ripped prematurely delivered caesarean section
• Cowed intimidated
• Part man courage my of
• Juggling cheating
• Double palter sense equivocate meanings
• Hope difference prophesying kingship fulfilling i
• Coward yield thee admit that
• Opening scene macbeth witches plan meet battle
• King war duncan play starts sweno norway
• Macbeth split open nave chops traitor macdonwald thane
• Macbeth predictions made witches act1 scene thane cawdor
• Duncan's made heir throne act scene title character
• Macbeth lady find prophecy sends letter
• Macbeth lady full o milk human kindness thinks
• Macbeth decide lady act scene kill duncan king
• Macbeth duncan good virtues plead angels man kill
• Macbeth lady screw courage sticking place fail means
• Opening scene macbeth witches plan meet battle
• King war duncan play starts sweno norway
• Macbeth split open nave chops traitor macdonwald thane
• Macbeth predictions made witches act scene thane cawdor
• Duncan's made heir throne act scene title character
• Macbeth lady find prophecy sends letter
• Macbeth lady full o milk human kindness thinks
• Macbeth duncan good virtues plead angels man kill
• Macbeth kill feel plot duncan start act scene
• Macbeth lady screw courage sticking place fail means
• Start act banquo unable sleep dreaming weird sisters
• Macbeth happening describes false creation proceeding heat-oppressed brain
• Duncan's guards wake lady macbeth drugged stay asleep
• Macbeth great neptune's ocean wash blood/clean hand means
• Lady macbeth bloody daggers wipes blood guards asleep
• Lady macbeth kill king father
• Strange events night duncan's murder solar eclipse horses
• Gates role porter play structure drama comic relief
• Porter hear door lennox macduff
• Macbeth discovers duncan dead kills guards claims anger
• Malcolm donalbain discover father murdered flee england ireland
• Start act banquo oracles well/and set hope witches
• Macbeth banquet lady lennox ross lords
• Witches decide act scene meet macbeth trick visions
• Macbeth decide guests left banquet worried macduff's loyalty
• Start act banquo oracle well/and set hope remembering
• Macbeth concerned banquo start act witch prophesied banquo's
• Banquo's som fleance what is
• Blamed banquo's murder fleance who
• Lennox lord call macbeth tyrant murdered duncan banquo
• When  witches pricking thumbs/something wicked macbeth enters
• Macbeth witches asks truth predictions
• Child apparatitions macduff bloody crown tree parade kings
• Macbeth told witches beware macduff man born woman
• Macbeth macduff?  wife children murdered castle
• Lady macbeth feel betrayed husband england leaving children
• Malcolm talk sexual desires vices testing macduff back
• Ross malcolm arrives england begs back scotland defeat
• Macduff pretty children killed my
• Malcolm macduff end act promises revenge macbeth
• Talking lady macbeth start act sleepwalking washing hands
• Lady macbeth start act doctor gentlewoman observing
• Lord english army siward brought support scottish led
• Armies english scottish start act close meet birnam
• Macbeth confident win battle believes man born woman
• Great chain structure hierarchy life matter universe starting
• Catholics protestants head difference jacobean england christian differed
• England catholicism persecuted change catholic protestant years religious
• James vi scotland king england elizabeth i died
• Religion james i protestant enforced laws persecuted catholics
• Book james i publish vi scotland daemonlogie dangers
• Law passed parliament anti-witchcraft invocation conjuration evil wicked
• Happened gunpowder plot group english catholics atempted assassinate
• James i react threats life extremely paranoid increased
• Equivocation ambiguous phrases order mislead people
• Prince  by machiavelli linked macbeth  is book political
• Oracle delphi high priestess greek legend believed deliver
• Fates sisters european mythologies inclusing norse greek roman
• Hecate goddess greek mythology magic witchcraft ghosts scholars
• James daemonologie book published i obsessed witchcraft witches
• Pontius pilate washing hands bible jesus sentenced death
• Blood shedding macbeth bible full ideas killing leading
• Golgotha start macbeth sergeant talks bleeding wounds describes
• Golgotha jesus crucified blood spilled ground
• God's law break macbeth breaking garden eden story
• Serpent macbeth snakes garden eden devil disguise lying
• Temptresses convinces macbeth woman garden eden story eve
• Di-dum iambic pentameter metre poetry iambs syllables line
• Blank verse poetry written iambic pentameter rhyme
• Couplet pair lines rhyme a
• Rhythm  regular pattern stressed unstressed syllables
• Metre rhythm piece poetry of
• Soliloquy speech play character deliver herself/himself audience
• Remark made play supposed heard audience
• Irony dramatic audience understands situation stage character
• Conceit kind metaphor compares things unusual clever
• Shakespearean sonnet poem lines written iambic pentameter ending
• Eponymous protagonist main character text named e.g macbeth
• Tragedy genre play features dramatic events,an unhappy ending
• Regicide murder king the of
• Weird/wyrd fate controlling human destiny
• Hamartia fatal flaw results downfall character
• Hubris excessive arrogance self-confidence or
• Catharsis idea watching tragedy audience release extreme emotions
• Anagnorisis moment text main character discovers truth herself/himself
• Peripeteia sudden turning point change circumstances
• Hallucination perceiving macbeth sees dagger
• Existential crisis moment character questions life purpose
• Foul chiasmus words ideas repeated reverse order fair
• Apparition ghost ghostly image a
• Foul fair witches is and
• Stars hide fires/let light black deep desires macbeth
• Spirits unsex lady macbeth come
• Innocent flower/but serpent under't lady macbeth
• Dagger i macbeth this a
• Silver skin laced golden blood macbeth
• Daggers men's smiles donalbain there's
• Head fruitless crown macbeth upon
• Blood macbeth will have 3.4
• Wicked witches something this way
• Damned spot lady macbeth out
• Dead butcher fiend-like queen malcolm
• Unseamed nave chops sergeant macbeth
• Hail macbeth king witches all
• Lesser macbeth greater witches than
• Full o milk greater lady macbeth
• Screw courage sticking place lady macbeth
• Hands colour i shame/to wear heart white lady
• Horror o tongue heart/cannot conceive thee macduff
• Full scorpions mind macbeth of
• Horrible shadow unreal mockery macbeth
• Children pretty macduff he has
• Life's walking shadow poor player macbeth
• Chance crown stir macbeth may
• Wither'd wild attire/that liker inhabitants o earth banquo
• Drees borrowed robes macbeth who
• Make thick blood lady macbeth
• I suck know/how tender tis love babe milks
• Macbeth murder sleep does 2.2
• Knock i beelzebub porter who's
• Gash'd stabs looked breach nature macbeth
• Double toil trouble witches and
• Perfumes arabia sweeten hand lady macbeth
• Thane fife wife lady macbeth
• I bear charmed life macbeth
• Weird sisters anglo-saxon mythology wyrd fate goddess controled
• Posters speedy travellers
• Mine thrice thine times direction witches perform dance
• Action repeated times witch nine
• Charm spell
• Wound readiness up placed in
• Foul fair weather bad outcome battle good
• Aught anything
• Choppy chapped cracked weather and
• Fantastical imaginary
• Present race favour immediate
• Noble titles nobility having new
• Rapt spell bound entranced
• Seeds time future of
• Father get be of
• Finel macbeth's father 
• Stands belief unbelievable not is
• Intelligence news information
• Charge command order
• Corporal physical
• On  of
• Insane root hemlock henbane deadly nightshade eaten produces
• Selfsame tune identical meaning
• Reads understands
• Stout brave valiant
• Afeard afraid nothing not
• Post messages with many
• Earnest promise pledge
• Addition title new
• Heavy judgement death sentence
• Line reinforce
• Vantage  additional amount soldiers weapons money
• Wrack ruin overthrow
• Capital mortal/meriting death
• Greatest larger part prophecy the
• Behind  past in the
• Home fully end to the
• Enkindle  inflame desire with
• Instruments darkness devils witches of
• Win consequence truth small matters lie grave
• Cousins  kinsmen
• Soliciting promising pleasure of
• Unfix hair  make hair stand end
• Seated fixed position in
• Ordinary state use course or
• Present fears imaginings  real dangers frightnening i imagine
• Function activity movement
• Surmise imaginings
• Strange unfamiliar
• Cleave cling
• Time roughest day will what
• Favour intelligence
• Wrought  disturbed agitated
• Registered leaf macbeth image notebook remember owes ross
• Chanced happened
• Interim weighed time thought the
• Free plain-speaking
• Main part meal second course
• Unbend relax weaken
• Filthy witness evidence blood
• Infirm hesitating wavering
• Plenty old of
• Beelzebub devil the
• Gave thee lie knocked the
• Requited lie paid back wrestling trick
• Confusion chaos
• Sacrilegious  unholy 
• Lord's anointed temple duncan's body king god's representative
• Chance  happened  before this had
• Mortality  important life nothing about
• Toys trivialities  unimportant events 
• Lees dregs wine glass of
• Auger tiny
• Tears grief
• Brewed prepared
• Ready foot motion revealed to
• Naked frailties  unclothed bodies weak feelings 
• Question  investigate
• Scruples  doubts
• Undivulged pretence hidden purposes
• Hurly=burly fighting confusion
• Data backup copy computer system's files settings stored
• Macbeth stichomythia rapidly alternating lines lady increase pace
• Addressed prepared them themselves
• Hangman's hands  blood-covered hands executioners disembowelled condemned men
• Methought i thought 
• Sleeve ravelled frayed tangled silk
• Life day death day's sleep
• Sore labour's bath hard work's cure
• Balm healing medicine
• Tg social 5px;word-break:normal equals class express show border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0
• Tailor committing treason macbeth free steal crown royal
• Hope drunk dressed porter's character prefigured lady macbeth's
• Juxtaposition comparing concepts characters clauses close proximity passage
• Manifestation physical expression realisation abstract idea character object
• Motif element reoccurs e.g.  word phrase idea image
• Oxymoron opposing terms 2 =
• Parable story teach moral spiritual lesson typically told
• Pathetic fallacy attributing human qualities nonhuman things
• Personification giving non-human human trait capability personality
• Pun play words suggests multiple meanings
• Satire criticizing people humour irony
• Semantic field writer words linked theme topic text
• Sibilance repetition s sound word sentence section text
• Simile comparing nonliteral conveys idea quality original thing
• Symbolism object character represent wider concept running
• Trope type character event setting frequently stories
• Zoomorphism imagery reprenting animal forms
• Anaphora repeating sequence words beginning adjacent clauses
• Antithesis parallel structure opposites create emphasis 
• Stichomythia dialogue characters speak turn e.g lady macbeth
• Part actor's lines meant heard characters stage intended
• Blank verse unrhymed poetry written iambic pentameter
• Couplet rhymed pair lines of
• Cyclical repetition sequence events story
• Foil character qualities contrast with
• Dramatic irony character shows oblivious reality audience aware
• Dramatic monologue passage speech person speaking audience thinking
• Epistrophe word group employed end successive sentences aim
• Exposition information provided stage directions narration dialogue description
• Couplet heroic lines shakespearean sonnet rhyming iambic pentameter
• Iambic pentameter sentence syllables total 1st unstressed 2nd
• Media res starting middle action
• Microcosm place group people event small-scale represent large
• Paradox statement contradict true that
• Structure parallelism components similar grammar meaning sentence multiple
• Refrain word phrase sentence repeated text
• Solilioquy dramatic device character stands stage giving voice
• Soliloquy character speaking audience one
• Complicit involved activity unlawful morally wrong
• Hamartia tragic flaw
• Hubris excessive pride confidence or
• Catharsis purgation pity fear end play
• True anagnorisis point play principal character recognises discovers
• Form sonnet highly stylised poetry lines written iambic
• Irony embedding meaning language typically implying opposite writer
• Allegory story character place event convey hidden meaning
• Allusion indirect reference event person work writer assumes
• Archetype real prototype ideal model perfect image
• Bathos anti-climax abrupt humour odd sudden change tone
• Biblical relating bible religious connotations
• Woman's blazon poem speaker describes physique focusing listing
• Caricature imitations notable characteristics exaggerated comic grotesuque effect
• Colloquialism informal phrase common time utterance
• Relief comic tension caused introduction comedic element
• Meaning connotation text create implied explicitly referring
• Dichotomy division contrast opposed things
• Double entendre words phrases meaning deliberately ambiguous risque
• Dysphemism substitution offensive term considered
• Epithet word phrase applied person describe actual credited
• Epitome perfect embodiment concept example
• Epizeuxis repetition words succession sentence
• Euphemism substitution harmless terms considered offensively risque explicit
• Metaphor extended continues sentences extend entire play
• Foreshadowing indication event occur narrative
• Grotesque ugly distorted physically figuratively comic repulsive
• Hyperbole exaggerated statements use of
• Imagery language visually descriptive symbolic
• Peripeteia sudden reversal fortune change circumstances reference fictional
• Protagonist leading character play in
• Tragic hero character depicted perfect honourable fatal flaw
• Arthurian legend stories king arthur knights round table
• Autonomy ability govern including actions decisions
• Code chivalry moral religious social medieval knights including
• Convention traditional things way of
• Dehumanise denying humanity including emotions independent thought
• Divine order great chain belief medieval christianity life
• Facade front mask put disguise someone's true character
• Fate  development events individual's control determined supernatural power
• Theatre globe london william shakespeare plays performed built
• Heathen christian pagan lacks moral principles
• Infallible failing incapable making mistakes
• Melodrama dramatic piece includes exaggerated characters exciting events
• Misogyny hatred contempt prejudice women readon gender
• Morality principles personal social difference wrong legality religion
• Mythology collection stories specially belonging religion culture e.g
• Nihilism belief life pointless meaningless
• Paganism non-christian pre-christian religion worships nature
• Society patriarchy system men ultimate authority opress women
• Prejudice negative view opinion based experience logic
• Remorse feeling intense regret guilt bad deed
• Repent feel and/or express great regret sinning committing
• Stereotype view preconception person thing fixed oversimplified held
• Gunpowder king plot assassination attempt england james i
• Renasissance period time 14th 17th century artists writers
• Negative toxic masculinity concept traditional male roles restrict
• Tragedy branch drama depicts downfall reversal fortune good
• Vice behaviour trait immoral or
• Virtue behaviour trait moral or

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