Look like the innocent flower — Transcript

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1. 0:01[Music]
2. 0:08so we have a quote here from lady beth
3. 0:10look like the innocent flower but be the
4. 0:12serpent under it again probably one of
5. 0:14the most famous lines in the play and
6. 0:16she's telling macbeth
7. 0:18how to control his emotions as he heads
8. 0:21forward to kill king duncan so let's
9. 0:23have a look at this firstly look like
10. 0:24the innocent flower but b the serpent
11. 0:26under it they're two imperatives they're
12. 0:28commands lady macbeth uses many
13. 0:30imperatives we've talked about
14. 0:31imperatives when she commands the
15. 0:33spirits previously here she is
16. 0:35commanding macbeth and it shows her
17. 0:37power in the play
18. 0:39we've then got the word innocent flower
19. 0:42flower cannot's beauty something
20. 0:44delicate feminine all the traits that
21. 0:46lady macbeth wanted to get rid of when
22. 0:47she said on sex me here but now traits
23. 0:50that she wants macbeth to look like
24. 0:51because he needs to look innocent so
25. 0:54flower again connects all those things
26. 0:56that might make but beth look innocent
27. 0:59whilst doing something incredibly
28. 1:00incredibly evil
29. 1:02and that is the evil of the serpent
30. 1:05the serpent contains it's a snake and it
31. 1:07connotes danger and venom
32. 1:09it's also here an allusion to the bible
33. 1:12in the story of adam and eve in genesis
34. 1:14the devil disguised himself as a serpent
35. 1:16a snake into the garden of eden to tempt
36. 1:20eve
37. 1:21so really
38. 1:23what
39. 1:24he needs to do is look like the innocent
40. 1:26flower but truly be the devil within
41. 1:28himself here and that is what lady
42. 1:30macbeth is telling him and this idea of
43. 1:32deception is really shown throughout the
44. 1:34play i've got some other quotes there in
45. 1:35the link quotation box that show this
46. 1:37idea of deception such as false face
47. 1:39hiding what the false heart doth know
48. 1:42um and again duncan himself says you
49. 1:45know he you cannot tell if a man is
50. 1:47honest by looking at his face he says
51. 1:49that about the old thing of cordor so
52. 1:50the this idea of deception and reality
53. 1:53is a real common theme throughout the
54. 1:54play
55. 1:56one thing i want to talk about just
56. 1:57before we end the video is that the
57. 1:59context here is super super important so
58. 2:02read the context box at the bottom this
59. 2:04is a really a quote that sucks up to
60. 2:06king james the first king james is the
61. 2:08king of england at this point who
62. 2:10macbeth pretty much wrote the play for
63. 2:12um you probably know that king james
64. 2:14suffered quite a few assassination
65. 2:16attempts the most famous being the
66. 2:17gunpowder plot where guy fawkes and
67. 2:20kate's been a few others tried to blow
68. 2:21him up in the houses of parliament
69. 2:23and when that plot was foiled when they
70. 2:25found out about it a medal was made it
71. 2:27was actually made in holland and that
72. 2:29medal had on it a snake
73. 2:32that was within
74. 2:33a load of flowers a load of holly and
75. 2:35ivy and stuff so
76. 2:37this is no doubt actually an illusion a
77. 2:39little quote on that medal and king
78. 2:41james the first would probably knowingly
79. 2:43smile to himself that shakespeare has
80. 2:45put a little line in this play that
81. 2:47links to a medal that was made in his
82. 2:48honor just recently so just really a
83. 2:51little bit of sucking up there in the
84. 2:52context for you