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Macbeth Act One Entrapment
- "Fair is foul and foul is far"/"Such foul and fair a day I have not seen"/"My noble partner...seems rapt withal"
- Does Macbeth becomes entrapped the supernatural power of the witches?
- "This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, why hath it gave me the earnest of success, commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor If good, why do I yield in that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature?"
- "...with his former title greet Macbeth"/"But treasons...have overthrown him"
- Does Macbeth become entrapped in the role/fate of the Thane of Cawdor?
- "Do you not hope that your children shall be kings, when those who gave the Thane of Cawdor to me promis'd no less to them?
- Does Macbeth become entrapped by his own "vaulting ambition"?
- "The Prince of Cumberland, that is a step I must fall down or else o'erleap, for in my way it lies. Stars, hard your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires"/"I burned in desire to question them further "
- Do Macbeth's corrupt desires entrap him?
- "Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here"
- Is Lady Macbeth entrapped by her gender so she is forced to turn to the supernatural/act unfeminine masculine?
- "What beast was it then, that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, you are a man. And to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man"
- "We teach but bloody instructions, which being taught, return to plague th'inventor"/"He's here in double trust?"
- Is Macbeth entrapped within his own conscience/morality which conflicts with his desire for power?