Act 1 Flashcards
‘thunder…’
‘thunder and lighting. Enter three witches’ A1, S1
‘Fair is…’
‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair’ A1, S1
‘two…’
‘two spent swimmers’ A1, S2
‘brandish’d…’
‘brandish’d steel, which smok’d with bloody execution’ A1,S2
‘unseem’d him… and fix’d…’
‘unseem’d him from the nave to th’chaps and fix’d his head upon our battlements’ A1,S2
‘most disloyal…’
‘most disloyal traitor, the Thane of Cawdor’ A1,S2
‘Thane of Cawdor…’
‘Thane of Cawdor shall deceive our bosom interest’ A1,S2
‘so foul and…’
‘so foul and fair a day I have not seen’ A1,S3
‘All hail Macbeth…’
‘All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor’ A1,S3
‘That he…’
‘That he seems rapt withal’ A1,S3
‘Stay…’
‘Stay, you imperfect speakers’ A1,S3
‘Your children…’
‘Your children shall be kings’ A1,S3
‘Why do you…’
‘Why do you dress me in borrow’d robes?’ A1,S3
‘cannot be…’
‘cannot be ill, cannot be good’ A1,S3
‘Why do I yield…’
‘Why do I yield to that suggestions whose horrid image doth unfix my hair’ A1,S3
‘If chance will have…’
‘If chance will have me kind, why chance may crown me without my stir’ A1,S3
‘We will establish…’
‘We will establish our state upon our eldest, Malcolm’ A1,S4
‘The Prince of Cumberland:..’
‘The Prince of Cumberland: that is a step on which i must fall down, or else o’erleap’ A1,S4
‘stars, hide…’
‘Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires’ A1,S4
‘My dearest…’
‘My dearest partner of greatness’ A1,S5
‘It is too…’
‘It is too full o’th’milk of human kindness’ A1,S5
‘Art not without…’
‘Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it’ A1,S5
‘pour my…’
‘pour my spirits in thine ear’ A1,S5
‘come you…’
‘Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts’ A1,S5
‘Unsex me here…’
‘Unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty’ A1,S5
‘If it were done…’
‘If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well it were done quickly’ A1,S7
‘Bloody instructions…’
‘Bloody instructions which being taught, return to plague th’inventor’ A1,S7
‘I have no spur…’
‘I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself’ A1,S7
‘Art thou afeard to…’
‘Art thou afeard to be the same in thine own act and valour, as thou art in desire?’ A1,S7
‘Have pluck’d my… and dash’d…’
‘Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums and dash’d the brains out’ A1,S7
