hetoricYear 10 – Representing Women

Analysing – Act 1, Scene 7

1. Below is an incomplete analysis table. Your job is to fill in the blanks
2. SOME boxes have techniques missing, others the meaning and some the actual quote.
3. Completely fill in ALL of the boxes. There are some hints including first letters and BOLD words.

Quotation Technique Meaning Created

Macbeth:
We will proceed no further in this business:
He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought
Golden opinions from all sorts of people
His honour is the symbol of gold which means
Symbolism that Macbeth treasures his honour as if it was
gold. If he committed the murder, he would
lose his ‘gold’.

Rhetorical Lady Macbeth is questioning her husband’s

Lady Macbeth: question manhood and is encouraging him to kill the King
Was the hope drunk in order to attain power.
Wherein you dress'd yourself? Hath it slept since?
And wakes it now, to look so green and pale
At what it did so freely?

Rhetorical Lady Macbeth is questioning about whether

Lady Macbeth:
Art thou afeard
To be the same in thine own act and valour
As thou art in desire?
Lady Macbeth:
live a coward in thine own esteem,
Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would,"
Like the poor cat i' the adage?
question Macbeth is afraid to carry out the murder or
not.
Simile The simile “like the poor cat I’ the adage” is
used to compare Macbeth to a cat who desires
a fish but fears water, again calling Macbeth a
coward for not wanting to kill for the crown.

Declarative The declarative statement calls into question

Lady Macbeth: From this time such I account thy statement his manhood.
love.

Visual The visual imagery of Lady Macbeth stating she

Lady Macbeth: Have plucked my nipple from his Imagery would “dash…the brains out” of her baby if she
boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I had “sworn” to demonstrates her
so sworn as you have done this. determination for power and her ruthlessness.

Repetition Macbeth discusses that he should be nice &

Macbeth: friendly towards King Duncan when he arrives
Away, and mock the time with fairest show: and once he earns King Duncan’s trust, he will
False face must hide what the false heart doth carry out the murder with Lady Macbeth.
know.