Peer notes:

Act 3 Scene 4

• Macbeths conscience is catching up with him
• “Our hostess keeps her state”
• Lady Macbeth has realise what she had done whereas Macbeth is on a murderous spree and is taking advantage of the power
• “thou are the best o’s the cut throats” that highlights Macbeths barbarity
• Macbeth thinks that Banquo is in the seat
• “Are you a man” Lady Macbeth sees masculinity as perfection
  . Reference to Act 1 Scene 5 where she says “unsex me”.

• “With 20 mortal murders on their hands” metaphor.
• Lady Macbeth is trying to say to Macbeth you’ve been a fool/ you’re making a idiot of yourself.
• Lady Macbeth is questioning why Macbeth is sane but she is breaking down .
• Root word: Blood
• Throughout the play the word blood is being repeated.
• Blood becomes a metaphor for guilt later on when Lady Macbeth is talking about getting the blood off her hands from murdering Duncan.
• Macbeth mentions night which is associated with Duncan’s murder.
• “I keep a servant fee’d” this tells us that Mabeth is sneaky, cunning etc.
• Macbeth is admirable because of his ambition
• “I am in blood…should I wade no more” the word choice of wade. How many murders Macbeth has committed.

 

 

Act 3 Scene 5

• Pathetic fallacy of thunder when the witches enter
• Hecate is against Macbeth saying that they have given him too much power.
•  “he shall spurn fate, corn death, and bear his hopes ‘both wisdom, grace and fear”
• Onomatoepia “hark”