Macbeth Act 1 Literary Review

a self-contradictory statement that when explained may prove to be plausible or true

a dominant feature or something that is repeated in order to strengthen a theme or idea

two characters that sharply contrast each other in one way or another

a play that ends in death, destruction, and suffering

the reader knows something that the character doesn't know

When the battle's lost and won

For in my way stars hide your fires let not light see my black and deep desires

O never shall the sun that morrow see

Like a coward in thine own esteem... like the poor cat i' the adage?

Who said: "He was a man on whom I built an absolute trust"

Who said: "I do fear thy nature is too full of the milk of human kindness"

Who said: "Tis strange ... to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths"

Which theme is best demonstrated in the following line? "Only vaulting ambition which overleaps itself and falls on the other"

Which theme is best demonstrated in the following line? "Come you spirits ... unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full"

Which theme is best demonstrated in the following line? "False face must hide what the false heart doth know."