Shakespearean+Key+Terms

Shakespearean Key Terms


 * **Paradox**
 * "When the battle's lost and won."
 * "Fair is foul, and foul is fair..."
 * "So foul and fair a day I have not seen."
 * "Lesser than Macbeth and greater."
 * "Not so happy, yet much happier."
 * "Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none."
 * "Cannot be ill, cannot be good."
 * "Fathered he is, and yet he's fatherless."
 * "Such welcome and unwelcome things at once 'tis hard to reconcile."
 * **Thane**- a ruler of an area, lesser than a king
 * **Too full of the milk of human kindness**- too soft
 * **Hie thee hither**- listen to me
 * **Regicide**- killing a king
 * **O never shall sun that morrow see**- he'll never see tomorrow
 * **Unsex**- drain of all stereotypical qualities of one gender
 * **Incarnadine**- a pinkish-red color used by MacBeth to describe what color the ocean would turn if he tried to wash his bloody hands in it
 * **alarum-** fancy trumpet noises
 * **anon-** soon, to be with someone soon
 * **parricide-** the killing of a parent
 * **possets-** hot drinks, containing milk and liquor.
 * **harbinger-** one who signals the approach of another.
 * **Wanton-** unrestrained
 * **Hell-kite**- bird of prey
 * **Physic**- medicine
 * **gently rendered:** surrendered without a fight
 * **pike:** a weapon with a pointed head and a wooden shaft, used by Macduff to carry Macbeth's head after murdering him
 * **apparitions:** ghosts