‘Macbeth’ Revision Symbolism Pictures Pick 6 of the following images and write the quotation out at the top of each box, making sure you have looked up the page number and summed what is happening to Macbeth at this point in the play. N.B. you must do this with every quotation you use – this is contextualising your quote and its significance for the marker.) Draw the image on the other side. Also on the reverse of each box, add the name of the technique and explain why it is effective – what does it reveal about his fatal flaw, effect on Macbeth/others/the country etc.

‘The Thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me In borrow’d robes?’ (Iiii - being called Thane of Cawdor prematurely) ________________________________________________________ ‘[Aside] why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature?’ (Iiii – reaction to prophecy he will be King)) ________________________________________________________ [Aside] ‘that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o’er leap. For in my way it lies.’ (Iiv – Malcolm named heir to throne.) ________________________________________________________ ‘that I may pour my spirits in thine ear’ (Iv – planning to manipulate M) ________________________________________________________ ‘fill me from the crown to the toe topfull Of direst cruelty’ (Iv – planning to manipulate M)

‘look like the innocent flower But be the serpent under ‘t’ (Iv – encouraging being devious/disguising true nature) ________________________________________________________ ‘Macbeth does murder sleep’ (IIii after killing D) ________________________________________________________ ‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand?’ (IIii after killing D) ________________________________________________________ ‘My hands are of your colour, but I shame To wear a heart so white.’ (Iiii after D’s murder) ________________________________________________________ ‘upon my head they plac’d a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my grip’ (IIIi – feeling throne is threatened/unsecure)

‘mine eternal jewel Given to the common enemy of man, To make them kings’ (IIIi – feeling throne is threatened/unsecure) ________________________________________________________ ‘O full of scorpions is my mind’ (IIIii – preparing to have Banquo murdered ) IViii: consequences of Macbeth’s selfish rule/lack of self- restraint/control on country/citizens ‘Not in the legions Of horrid hell can come a devil more damn’d In evils to top Macbeth.’ _________________________________________________________ ‘I think our country sinks beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds.’

‘Alas! Poor country; Almost afraid to know itself. It cannot Be called our mother, but our grave.’ (IViii) _______________________________________________________ ‘Now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe Upon a dwarfish thief.’ (Vii) _______________________________________________________ ‘All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.’ (Vi – before her suicide)

Viii (weariness of life) ‘And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have’ _______________________________________________________ Vv (weariness/futility of life) ‘To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day.’ _______________________________________________________ ‘Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.’