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20 Cards in this Set
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the term for when a character confesses to the audience how he really feels but the other characters on stage don't hear him
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Aside
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the term for one character alone on stage revealing his thinking to the audience
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Soliloquy
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Heir to the throne of Scotland
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the Prince of Cumberland
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He was killed because of treason; his title was given to Macbeth.
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Thane of Cawdor
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Shakespeare's favorite theme
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Appearance vs. Reality
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Macbeth's only motivating factor for killing Duncan
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Ambition
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Lady Macbeth used this against Macbeth to get him to kill/help kill Duncan.
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Manhood
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the character who will not be a king himself, but will father kings
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Banquo
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this character invites himself to Macbeth's castle to spend the night
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Duncan
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Thane of Glamis
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Macbeth
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how Lady Macbeth learns of her husband's good fortune
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Letter
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the character who devises the plan to kill Duncan
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Lady Macbeth
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the term for when the audience knows something that the character on stage does not know
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Dramatic irony
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"instruments of darkness," according to Banquo
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the witches or "weird sisters"
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"Duncan hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been so clear in his great office, that his virtues will plead like angels..."
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Macbeth in his soliloquy saying Duncan has been a good king and doesn't really deserve to be killed
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11th Century Scotland
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Setting of the play
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"...if good, 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?"
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Macbeth is contemplating the murder of Duncan so he can become King of Scotland, but Duncan doesn't deserve to be murdered so Macbeth is unsure.
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"Think upon what hath chanced, and at more time, the interim having weighed it, let us speak our free hearts to each other."
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Macbeth wants to speak privately and more openly with Banquo.
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"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."
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It is impossible to tell what a person is thinking by looking at him.
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lost the battle in Act 1
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Norway
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