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Macbeth, A Christmas Carol + Hobson's Choice
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| Witches- supernatural Alliteration emphasizes harshness of how they speak | "fair is foul, and foul is fair" |
| Theme of Guilt Lady Macbeth- referring to her hands | "Out, damned spot! Out, I say!" |
| Theme of Guilt Macbeth- referring to his hands | "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hands?" |
| Guilt- Lady Macbeth Talking about Thane of Fife | "The thane of Fife had a wife, where is she now?" |
| Supernatural- Lady Macbeth | " Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty" |
| Macbeth- theme of ambition | "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition" |
| Macbeth- realizing his strikings/ambition was useless...his wife has died, he is soon likely to be defeated and killed. | "Out, out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow..." |
| Theme of blood- Macbeth | "I am in blood stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, returning would be as tedious as to go o'er" |
| Theme of Greed/Money Description of Scrooge | "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner" |
| Scrooge- theme of greed/money Talking to Portly Gentlemen | "I can't afford to make idle people merry" |
| Scrooge- theme of greed/money Speaking to Bob Cratchit about having Christmas day off | " a poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every twenty-fifth of December!" |
| Theme of Isolation | "Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator...his sole friend, his sole mourner" |
| Theme of Christmas- Scrooge | "I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year" |
| Theme of Christmas- Fred | "A merry christmas, uncle! God save you!" |
| Hobson - theme of arrogance/control (towards Maggie) | "its hardly decent at your time of life" "you're a proper old maid, Maggie, if ever there was one" "Maggie's too useful to part with" "Well that's a good one! You with a husband!" |
| Hobson- arrogance/ control About when dinner is to be served | "Dinner will be when I come in for it. I'm master here" |
| Hobson- arrogance To do with his social status | "I'm Hobson. I'm British middle class and proud of it" |
| Theme of alcoholism Doctor MacFarlane | "chronic alcoholism...you'd a warning this morning that any sane man would listen to and your going to listen to it, sir" |
| Theme of Choice Maggie | "you're going to wed me, Will" |
| Theme of Choice Willie | "I'm none wanting thy Maggie" |