10 KEY QUOTES Flashcards
Yet I do fear thy nature
Yet I do fear thy nature, it is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness
Come you spirits
Come you spirits, that tend on moral thoughts, unsex me here
Look like
Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t
Brave Macbeth -
Brave Macbeth - Well he deserves that name
Let not light
Let not light see my black and deep desires
when thou durst
when thou durst do it, then you were a man
Guilt quotes (3 Quotes)
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand - Roman god of the sea, hyperbole, not even an all powerful deity responsible for water used for “purging” coud not possibly purge his soul of guilt. Macbeth feels disconnected from the Christian God that the Jacobean audience believesin.
a little water clears us of this deed
out dammned spot! Out I say!
full of scorpions
Full of scorpions is my mind
fair is foul
fair is foul and foul is fair
Instruments of darkness…
The instruments of darkness tell us truths
You should be women
You should be women, and yet your beards, forbid me to interpret that you are so
falcon towering in her
falcon towering in her pride of place/ Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed
falcon is a bird of prey, killed by a non bird of prey
falcons were also hunting birds
natural order has been disrupted - great chain of being
Kingship context
Machiavellian theory
Bring thou fiend
Bring thou fiend of Scotland and myself
Macbeth is
Macbeth is ripe for shaking
