Act 1 Flashcards
'’Thunder…’’
'’Thunder and lightning’’ 1.1
'’Fair is…and…’’
'’Fair is foul and foul is fair’’
“For brave……-well he…”
“For brave Macbeth- well he deserves that name” 1.2
“steel, …bloody…like valour’s…”
“steel, which smoked with bloody execution, like valour’s minion” 1.2
“he unseam’d…and fix’d…”
“he unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps, and fix’d his head upon our battlements” 1.2
“What he hath…Macbeth hath…”
“What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won” 1.2
“So foul…I have not…”
“So foul and fair a day I have not seen” 1.3
“If chance…chance…”
“If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.” 1.3
“Two truths…to the swe…”
“Two truths are told, as happy prologues to the swelling act of the imperial theme” 1.3
“There’s no art…in the…”
“There’s no art
To find the mind’s construction in the face.” - Duncan 1.4
'’Stars, hide…’’
'’Stars, hide your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires
“I fear thy…it is too…to catch…”
“I fear thy nature; it is too full o’ the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way” 1.5
“art not without…but without…”
“art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it” 1.5
'’Come, you spirits…here’’
“Come, you spirits…unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top full
Of direst cruelty’’ 1.5
“take my…”
“take my milk for gall” 1.5
'’Come, thick…And pall thee…hell’’
“Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell’’ 1.5
'’Look like thee…but be…’’
'’Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t’’ 1.5
’’ I have no spur…on the other’’
'’I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself,
And falls on the other.” 1.7
“I have given…and know how…: I would, while it was…have pluck’d my…and dash’d the… had I so…”
“I have given suck, and know how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums, and dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn”1.7
'’Hath borne his faculties…hath been so…will plead…against the…’’
Macbeth says Duncan “Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off” 1.7
“Bring forth…”
“Bring forth men-children only” 1.7
