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All Quotes Flashcards

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A1S1: Witch: ‘MB linked to evil immediately’

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‘There to meet with Macbeth’

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A1S1: Witches: ‘witches see right as wrong and wrong as right’

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“Fair is foul, and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air’

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A1S2:: Sergent: ‘capable warrior or blood thirsty?’

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‘Unseamed him for the nave to the chops, and fixed his head upon our battlements’

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A1S3: Banquo: ‘confused what witches are’

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‘What are these’

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A1S3: Banquo: ‘notices Macbeth seems scared’

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‘seem to fear things that do sound fair?’

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A1S3: Witch: ‘Banquo’s sons etc. will be kings but not him’

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‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none’

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A1S3: Macbeth: ‘let faith take course- be king without doing anything (killing Banquo)’

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‘If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir’

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A1S4: Duncan: ‘Duncan has poor judgment on old thane of Cawdor: foreshadowing’

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‘He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust’

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A1S5: Macbeth/Lady Macbeth: ‘referring to each other lovingly’

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‘My dearest love’

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A1S5: Lady Macbeth: ‘Macbeth is too nice to be king, he is not man enough’

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‘I fear thy nature; it is too full of the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way’

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A1S5: Lady Macbeth: ‘Will talk sense into Macbeth to become king’

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‘I may pour my spirits in thine ear’

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A1S5: Lady Macbeth: ‘Calls on evil to take away her feminine qualities and make her tougher’

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‘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!’

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A1S5: Lady Macbeth: ‘Appearance v reality’

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‘Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t’

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A1S5: Lady Macbeth: ‘Taking charge’

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‘Leave all the rest to me.’

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A1S6: Duncan: ‘Dramatic irony- welcoming- greeting’

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‘Fair and noble hostess’

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A1S7: Macbeth: ‘Duncan is a good king’

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‘been so clear in great office’

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A1S7: Macbeth: ‘Decision made- not killing Duncan’

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‘We will proceed no further in this business.’

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A1S7: Macbeth: ‘decided will do anything to kill Duncan’

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‘I am settled and bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat.’

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A2S1: Banquo: ‘Afraid- can’t stop thinking about witches, inviting Macbeth into conversation’

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“I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters: to you they have showed some truth’

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A2S1: Macbeth: ‘Pretending to not care about the witches (lie) changing subjects from Banquos fear of witches’

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“I think not of them”

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A2S1: Macbeth: ‘Hallucinating before murdering Duncan’

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“Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?”

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A2S1: Macbeth: ‘He must not be well if he is imagining this’

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“A dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat oppressed brain”

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A2S2: Lady Macbeth: ‘Excuse for not killing Duncan- vulnerable’

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“Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t”

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A2S2: Macbeth: ‘Regrets killing Duncan’

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“This is a sorry sight”

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A2S2: Lady Macbeth: ‘Wants Macbeth to man up- not impressed with his regret, contrast’

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“A foolish thought”

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A2S2: Lady Macbeth: ‘takes charge’

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“Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers”

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A2S2: Macbeth: ‘Metaphor- will never be clean of his actions’

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“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”

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A2S3: Lennox: ‘Wild night’

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“The night has been unruly”

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A2S3: Macbeth: ‘Killed guards out of anger’

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“I do repent me of my fury, that I did kill them”

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A2S3: Malcolm: ‘He knows more about murder’

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“To show an unfelt sorrow is an office which the false man does easy”

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A2S3: Donalbain: ‘Can’t trust anyone there’

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“Where we are there’s daggers in men’s smiles”

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A2S4: Ross: ‘Heaven is upset by the actions of people’

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“The heavens, as troubled with man’s act, threaten his bloody stage”

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A2S4: Ross and Macduff: ‘Why won’t Macduff go to Duncans funeral or Macbeths Coronation?’

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“Will you to Scone?”
“No, cousin, I’ll to Fife”

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A3S1: Banquo: ‘suspicious of how Macbeth became king’

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‘Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, as the weird women promised, and, “I fear, thou play’dst most foully for’t”

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A3S1: Banquo: ‘if they’ve shown Macbeth truth maybe show him truth aswell’

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“Why, by the verities on thee made good, may they not be my oracles as well, and set me up in hope?”

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A3S1: Macbeth: ‘being king is nothing without the crown secured’

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“To be thus is nothing; but to be safely thus”

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A3S1: Macbeth: ‘only fears Banquo’

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“There is none but he whose being I do fear”

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A3:S1: Macbeth: ‘no heirs to thrown’

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“They hailed him father to a line of kings: upon my head they placed a fruitless crown”

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A3S1: Macbeth: ‘killed Duncan (good man); trying to rationalise killing Banquo’

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‘If ‘t be so, “For Banquo’s issue have I filed my mind; for them the gracious Duncan have I murdered;” put rancours in the vessel of my peace only for them’

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A3S1: Macbeth: ‘manipulation to kill Banquo’

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“Both of you know Banquo was your enemy”

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A3S1: Macbeth: ‘Banquo will die tonight’

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“It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul’s flight, if it find heaven, must find it tonight”

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A3S2: Lady Macbeth: ‘We got us what we want but we’re not happy’

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“Nought’s had, all’s spent, where our desire is got without content: ‘tis safer to be that which we destroy than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy”

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A3S2: Macbeth: ‘There’s still a chance they will love the crown’

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“We have scotched the snake, not killed it”

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