Macbeth, Quotes. Scenes I, II, III

Witches
1. 'In thunder, lightning, or in rain?'
2. 'When the battle's lost and won'
  Anmerkungen:
  - Ambiguity - literal battle, or Macbeth's battle? Also demonstrates how we cannot know the Witches' intentions - what could they gain from Macbeth? Are they on anyone's side? What is their purpose; their intent?
3. 'There to meet with Macbeth'
4. 'Graymalkin. / Paddock calls'
5. 'Fair is foul, and foul is fair; / Hover through the fog and filthy air'
  Anmerkungen:
  - Proverbial at the time, but expression probably signifies the moral confusion or inversion which the Witches represent.
6. 'killing swine'
7. 'in a sieve I'll thither sail'
8. 'thrice' 'the charm's wound up'
  Anmerkungen:
  - The completion of a charm that does not lead to a prophecy suggests that they may be the perpetrators of Macbeth's misfortune.
About Macbeth
1. 'brave Macbeth'
2. 'Disdaining fortune'
  Anmerkungen:
  - Macbeth inevitably takes matters into his own hands.
3. 'Like valour's minion carv'd out his passage'
  Anmerkungen:
  - Again, he must carve his own passage, so he was an instrument in Duncan's murder out of incapability to be a passive observer of fate. Given a prophecy, must act upon it.
4. 'unseam'd him from the nave to th' chops'
5. 'worthy gentleman'
6. 'As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.'
7. 'Bellona's bridegroom'
  Anmerkungen:
  - Old Roman goddess of war.
8. 'What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.'
  Anmerkungen:
  - Echoes Witches' prophecy - Demonstrates invasive nature of witches' prophecy - Rupert Goold production. Both literal battle lost and won, but more specifically Macbeth's battle is lost and won - could be used to support argument that the Witches' are to blame - they have already decided Macbeth's fate.
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