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like a man' 5.3. MAC I will not be afraid of death and bane, till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane. 5.3.MAC 'I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack'd' 5.8. MAC 'Bear-like I must fight the course' VIOLENCE KEY MOMENTS 1.5. Lady Macbeth calls on evil spirits. 1.7. Lady Macbeth's discusses the idea of killing her children rather than break a promise 4.3. Macduff discovers his family have been murdered. 5.3. Macbeth's violence spirals out of control. CONTEXT Shakespeare shows violent acts lead to more violent acts. After using violence to become king, Macbeth must continue to use violence to keep his crown until violence is all he has left. KEY MOMENTS 1.3. Macbeth's initial thoughts 1.5. Lady Macbeth's plans 1.7. Plotting Duncan's murder 2.1. Dagger soliloquy 2.3. After Duncan's death 3.1/2. Plotting Banquo's murder 5.8. Macbeth discovers the witches have deceived him. KEY QUOTATIONS 1.5. LM 'take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers' 1.7. LM 'I have given suck, and know how tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out' DECEIT CONTEXT Shakespeare suggests false appearances are unnatural and not fitting for a king. Macbeth false appearances help him to become king only to later be a victim of false appearances when he discovers the witches have tricked him. 4.3. MD 'All my pretty ones' 4.3. MD 'Macbeth is ripe for shaking' 5.3.MAC 'I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack'd' 5.3. MAC 'Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it'. KEY QUOTATIONS 1.3. MAC Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires' 1.5. LM 'Look like th' innocent flower,. But be the serpent under 't' 1.7. MAC 'False face must hide what the false heart doth know' 2.3. DON: There's daggers in men's smiles' 3.1. MAC Acquaint you with the perfect spy o' the time... for't must be done to-night, 3.2. MAC 'Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck' 5.8. MD 'Macduff was from his mother's womb untimely ripped' SUPERNATURAL KEY MOMENTS 1.3. Witches first meeting 2.1. Macbeth's dagger hallucination 3.4. Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost 4.1. Macbeth returns to witches 5.8. Macduff breaks Macbeth's charmed life. CONTEXT Elizabethans believed in the supernatural. Shakespeare uses the supernatural to create a haunting effect which leads the audience into thinking Macbeth is possessed by evil forces. KEY MOMENTS 2.2. Macbeth feels guilt after murdering Duncan. 3.2. Macbeth's nightmares reveal his guilt. 3.4.Seeing Banquo's ghost is a symbol of Macbeth's guilt. 5.1. Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking and insanity are evidence of her guilt. KEY QUOTATIONS 1.3. MAC 'Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair' 2.1. MAC 'Is this a dagger which I see before me' GUILT CONTEXT: Shakespeare uses blood, sleeplessness and hallucinations as symbols to explore how guilt manifests itself in the characters. Shakespeare shows that guilt is an inevitable and unavoidable consequence of committing unnatural acts. 2.1. MAC 'Art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat- oppressed brain?' 3.4. MAC 'Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee!' 4.1. MAC 'Banquo smiles upon me' 5.8.MAC 'I bear a charmed life' KEY QUOTATIONS 2.2.MAC 'This is a sorry sight' 2.2. MAC 'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?" 2.2. MAC 'Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep' 3.2. MAC 'Affliction of terrible dreams that shake us nightly' 3.4. MAC 'The table's full' 3.4. MAC 'Never shake thy gory locks at me.' 5.1. LM 'Out, damned spot!' 5.1. LM 'The thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean?' 5.1. LM 'All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.'