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Act 1 Scene 7 Analysis
Complete the table below with at least 8 quotations that include a language technique that you can identify
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Try to get a balance of quotations from Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
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13-14

Macbeth

I have bought golden opinions from all
sorts of people

33-34

Using colours as
adjectives

Was the hope drunk wherein you
dressed yourself? Hath it slept since?
And wakes it now, to look so green
and pale at what it did so freely?

36-39

Power of three,
rhetorical
questions

Macbeth

Lady
Macbeth

Language
Technique Used
Power of three

Effect/ Explanation
By defining the three positions he is in relative to Macbeth, it is to
emphasise that he is supposed to be a loyal subject to him, or at
least a good one as now he is a host to him
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The use of the colour gold gives us the impression that he was
considered very highly amongst the people since gold can be
associated with royalty, wealth and somebody who is good of
heart
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Its quite
ironic in the end as even though he had said all of this and wanted
to keep a good reputation with the people, he ended up killing the
very person that the whole kingdom had admired
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Perhaps to some
extent he feels that Lady Macbeth is not the one who will object to
killing someone just for being immoral, however as we see in Act 5
Scene 1, there is quite a lot of guilt shown in Lady Macbeth who at
first didn’t care whether a human being would be killed or not
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Lady Macbeth had interjected at the
7th syllable in the iambic pentameter – she interjects when she
comes in on line 12
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Shows who’s the boss in this
relationship and suggests that gender roles are swapped, Macbeth
is generally the more timid and cowardly person while Lady
Macbeth is braver and has to convince the Macbeth to carry out
the murder
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This could imply that Lady
Macbeth had great ambitions for herself and Macbeth, and by
refusing to kill the King, these ambitions will never be achieved
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He was drunk before
and did something he regrets
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She is describing the crown as an ornament of life, which implies
that without the crown or lust for the crown, there is no point of
living as it is a source of life
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Without the crown, life is hopeless
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It emphasises that he had a
moral conscience and how he had two sides to his decision to kill
the king, one willing to do so and one which isn’t willing
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He becomes a beast in which he ruthlessly kills everybody
for his own ambition
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“Trumpet-tongued”
suggests how good he was in which that even angels grieved over
the injustice of the death of King Duncan
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Furthermore the use of alliteration in
“naked newborn” gives a contrast between the innocence of the

Macbeth

Bloody instructions, which, being
taught, return to plague th’ inventor
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False face must hide what the
false heart doth know
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Contrast

Lady
Macbeth

Will I with wine and wassail so
convince that memory, the warder of

Metaphor

64-66

baby compared to the violent crime of the murdering of King
Duncan
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This
shows that Macbeth knew that there would be consequences but
ruled it out as the benefits of doing it outweighed the crime
committed
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In addition, it shows how
he is active in determining his fate for himself
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Perhaps he is desperate for the title
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The rhyming makes it seem more like a prophecy or fate as these
two lines suggest to be set in stone
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The repetition of the word “false” emphasises the
theme of appearance and reality where even though they seem to
be nice on the outside, they actually have evil intentions on the
inside
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The contrast is seen between the baby and the violence
that it is being acted upon
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In this
way, she is trying to guilt trip Macbeth into doing it because she is
saying that she won’t go back on her promise which Macbeth
should similarly do, to be a worthy man
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Weak-willed in
comparison to his wife’s determination
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But irony Act 5, Scene
1 she goes crazy and is obsessed with the murder
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the brain, shall be a fume
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This shows how her ambition overrides her moral
conscience
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She turns the tables on him now as he said previously that doing
more than what it takes to become a man is no man at all
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But he had originally suggested this in
the first place
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He speaks of ambitious things but never carries them
out because he is a coward and therefore this shows the theme of
manhood
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Trying to force him to carry out the murder by insulting his
manliness
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Saying that by
not becoming the King, it is his own loss, and a missed opportunity
of achieving his ambition
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Macbeth is intimidated by them if they happened to fail
because they would be sentenced to death for treason
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On one hand, she could make it seem like a question, which
suggests that Lady Macbeth was very confident and thought of her
husband a this point of time
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that it was a try and fail situation, it didn’t matter if they failed or
not, at least they took the opportunity to chase their ambition
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Definite no, shows Macbeth’s authority to try and not carry out the
assassination
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Iambic pentameter – Lady Macbeth comes in with four, she interjects when she comes in on line 12
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What do we learn about Macbeth’s state of mind at this stage in the play?
How does Shakespeare use language to demonstrate Lady Macbeth’s persuasive approach?



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