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28 sie 2024 · Macbeth. Key word or phrase to memorise: “for fear” and “stones prate”. What the quotation means: When Macbeth hallucinates that he sees a dagger and begins to doubt his senses, his paranoia increases so that, by the end, he believes that every footstep alerts the castle, as if the stones talk (“prate”) Theme: Guilt.
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Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 5. This soliloquy spoken by Lady Macbeth after reading her husband’s letter is one of the most famous quotes in the play. The passage is an elaborate extended metaphor. Lady Macbeth appeals to the evil spirits from hell to fill her with cruelty and to metaphorically thicken her blood.
The witches say that Macbeth will be king "hereafter" but Macbeth gets the quote wrong when he writes to his wife. Then, when she greets him, she quotes the witches correctly. Does this suggest she's a witch?
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24 kwi 2018 · Lady Macbeth, Act 5: Scene 1. Themes: Guilt & madness, evil/darkness vs grace/light, gender, appearance vs reality. Lady Macbeth is trying to wash (imaginary) blood off her hands – a symbol of her guilt/madness. In Act 2, Scene 2, just after Macbeth killed Duncan, there are other references to blood on hands:
