English Lit - Macbeth Flashcards
Witches, 1:1 at the end of the scene
“Fair is foul and foul is fair/Hover through the fog and filthy air”
Captain, 1:2 while describing Macbeth
“Brave Macbeth — for well does he deserve that name”
Captain 1:2, describing Macbeth’s sword
“Smok’d with bloody execution”
Macbeth 1:3, remarking at the course of the day
“So fair and foul a day I have not seen”
Macbeth 1:3, to the witches
“Speak, if you can: what are you?”
Macbeth 1:4, seeing Malcolm
“Stars, hide your fires/Let not light see my black and deep desires”
Lady Macbeth 1:5, remarking on Macbeth’s nature
“And yet I fear thou art too full o’th’milk of human kindness”
Lady Macbeth 1:5, to the ‘spirits’
“Take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers” “Fill me from the crown to toe-top with direst cruelty”
Duncan 1:6 to Lady Macbeth
“Honoured hostess”
Lady Macbeth 1:7, manipulating Macbeth
“When you durst do it, then you were a man”
Macbeh 2:1, to himself
“Is this a dagger I see before me?” “I have thee not, yet I see thee still”
Macbeth 2:2, after killing Duncan
“Will all Neptune’s great oceans clean this blood from my hands?”
Macduff 2:3, seeing Duncan
“Oh, horror, horror, horror!”
Macbeth 2:3, describing Duncan’s body
“His silver skin laced with his golden blood”
Old Man 2:4, about Duncan’s horses
“Tis said they ate each other”
Banquo 3:1, expressing his suspicions of Macbeth
“And I fear/Thou play’d most foully for it”
Macbeth 3:1, expressing his paranoia about Banquo
“Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown/And put a barren sceptre in my grip”
Macbeth 3:2, talking to Lady Macbeth
“We have scorched the snake, not killed it” “Oh, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!”
Macbeth 3:2, telling Lady Macbeth not to worry about what he’s doing
“Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck”
Macbeth 3:4, to Banquo’s ghost
“Thou canst not say I did it: never shake/Thy gory locks at me!”
Macbeth 3:4, worrying about the significance of Banquo’s ghost
“Blood will have blood”
Lennox 3:6, sarcastically remarking about Macbeth’s tyranny
“Was that not nobly done? Aye, and wisely, too”
The Second Apparition 4:1, to Macbeth
“Laugh to scorn/The power of man; for none of woman born/Shall harm Macbeth”
Macbeth 4:1, to Lennox about the Witches
“Infected be the air whereon they ride/And damned all those that trust them!”
