Final Macbeth Quotes

Question 1

‘___ like the ________ _______ but be the _______ underneath’ Lady M Act 1 Themes = ?

Answer 1

‘Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent underneath’
Themes = Appearance vs reality
- Simile + metaphor
- Takes on role of 4th witch - skillfully employing deceptive practices to manoeuvre acquiring power over Macbeth
- Biblical illusion (genesis - fall of man kind - Macbeths hamartia)
- Wants Macbeth to appear innocent to hide his intentions

Question 2

‘The _________ of _______ tell __ truths’ Banquo Act _
Themes = ?

Answer 2

‘The instruments of darkness tell us truths’ Act 1 Themes = supernatural
- Auditory image on ‘instruments’ = Witches have Macbeth in a hypnotic trance
- Banquo’s discernment (able to judge it well) shows his immunity to the hypnotic musicality that captivates Macbeth = shows Banquo as character not easily swayed by supernatural
- Supernatural use part truths to lure people in

Question 3

‘___ ____ ,Macbeth, that shalt be ____ ________’ _______ Act 1 Themes = ?

Answer 3

‘All hail Macbeth that shalt be King hereafter’ Witches Themes = Appearance vs reality, supernatural, (ambition)
- 3 prophecies ignite Macbeths ambition
- Witches exploit Macbeth’s hubris (excessive pride) to employ their deceptive influence
- Commas either side of ‘,Macbeth,’ = targeted approach
- If the witches hadn’t planted the idea in his head he may not have killed Duncan (fate vs free will)

Question 4

‘____ is ____ and foul __ ____’ Witches Act 1 Themes = ?

Answer 4

‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’ Themes = appearance vs reality, supernatural
-Paradoxical language = sense of ambiguity and darkness
- Foreshadows plays impending chaos
- Witches speak in trochaic tetrameter - gives an eerie songlike quality (‘instruments of darkness’)

Question 5

‘Will all ____ ________ oceans ____ this ____ ____ from my hand’ _______ Act _ Themes = ?

Answer 5

‘Will all great Neptune’s oceans wash this blood clean from my hand’ Macbeth Act 2 Themes = Guilt
- Metaphor
- Duncan’s blood serves as the symbol of guilt - no water will ever remove the sacrilegious ‘stain’ of regicide
- Macbeth feels there’s enough blood on him to stain the whole seas (will stay with him till death)

Question 6

‘___ damned ___, ___ I say…. Hell __ _____’ Lady M Act _ Themes = ?

Answer 6

‘Out damned spot, out I say…. Hell is murky’ Act 5 Themes = guilt
- Imaginary hand washing
- Her inability to sleep was foreshadowed by Macbeth ‘I heard a voice cry sleep now more’
- She’s completely underdone by guilt and descends into madness as she now sees blood - juxtaposes her earlier ‘a little water clears us of this deed’
- Hell is where she is - contrasts earlier her wanting the supernatural ‘dunnest smoke of hell’

Question 7

‘___ the perfumes of _____ will not _______ this ______ ____’ _____ ______ Act 5 Themes = ?

Answer 7

‘All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand’ Lady Macbeth Themes = Guilt
- Hyperbole (extravagant exaggeration)
- Realises nothing will rid her of the guilt of killing Duncan
- ‘perfumes of Arabia’ = strongest perfumes - nothing can rid her internal conflict of guilt. The sin is huge

Question 8

‘____ hide ____ _____ let not _____ see my _____ ____ _____ ______’ Macbeth Act _ Themes = ?

Answer 8

‘Stars hide your fires let not light see my black and deep desires’ Act 1 Themes = ambition, appearance vs reality
- Personification of stars and metaphor for desires
- Macbeth is asking darkness to shroud him so no one can see what he plans to do next not even the stars = he knows what he’s doing is wrong
- ‘stars’ ‘light’ = references to God, ‘black’ ‘deep’ connotations of sin
- Contrast in ‘black’ and ‘light’ shows Macbeths dichotomous (divided into two) character

Question 9

‘I have no ____ to _____ the ____ __ my ______ but only ________ ________ which ________ ______’ Macbeth Act _ Themes = ?

Answer 9

‘I have no spur to prick the side of my intent but only vaulting ambition which overleaps itself’ Act 1 Themes = Ambition
- His ambition is his hamartia (fatal flaw)
- Metaphor ‘vaulting ambition’
-describes the tension between Macbeth’s unwillingness to move ahead with his plan, and his acknowledgement that his ambition is leading him down a dangerous path.

Question 10

‘___ ____ of the milk __ ______ _______’ _____ ______ Act 1 Themes = ?

Answer 10

‘Too full of the milk of human kindness’ Lady Macbeth Themes = ambition
- Lady M views Macbeth as a child that still needs to be nurtured and guided
- Macbeth doesn’t lack ambition but does lack “manly” strength
- She is the driving force to get Macbeth to kill Duncan - she’s planting ambition in Macbeth

Question 11

‘______ my nipple from ____ _______ ____ and _____ the _____ out’ Lady Macbeth Act 1 Themes = ?

Answer 11

‘plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out’ Themes = violence
- ‘plucked’ and ‘dashed’ = harsh verbs/plosives
- Shows rejection of motherly instincts = willingness to take human life
- Infanticide = reflects Jacobean perceptions of witches
- Women in Jacobean times seen to be needed to be caring and obeying to their husbands

Question 12

‘____ he unseamed ___ ____ the ____ to ___ _____ and _____ ___ _____ _____ ___ _________’ _______ Act 1 Themes = ?

Answer 12

‘Till he unseamed him from the nave to the chaps and fixed his head upon our battlements’ Captain Themes = violence
- Violent action of Macbeth killing a traitor (The Thane of Cawdor)
- Foreshadows Macbeths death as a traitor = ironic

Question 13

‘I am in ____ ______ in so ___ ____ should I ____ __ ____ returning were __ ______’ ______ Act _ Themes = ?

Answer 13

‘I am in blood stepped in so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious’ Macbeth Act 3 Themes= violence
- Blood (metaphorically) was previously only on his hands but now he’s surrounded by it
- His response to fear and guilt has gone from being horrified to it being his means of self preservation (keeping yourself safe) - he now thinks it’s just as good to keep going than turn back
- Similar to Cain in the bible - punishment from God

Question 14

’ __ _______ of the knowledge ______ _____’ _______ Act 3 Themes = ?

Answer 14

‘Be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck’ Macbeth Themes = Masculinity and femininity
- Shift of power - Macbeth takes on Lady M’s language (‘look like the innocent flower’)
- He’s telling LM to remain oblivious to his plans against Banquo and Fleance - shift in dominance
- Reinforces Jacobean views of women in that they should be naive and know less than their husbands - juxtaposes the power status earlier

Question 15

‘____ ___ spirits that tend __ ______ ______, ______ me here….. ____ ____ in the dunnest ____ of ____’ Lady Macbeth Act _ Themes = ?

Answer 15

‘Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here….pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell’ Act 1 Themes = masculinity and femininity, supernatural, ambition
- ‘come you’ = unhesitant to call on dark forces to free her from the societal constraints associated with being female
- Any break in gender roles in this period would show her to be possessed by the supernatural forces
- ‘dunnest smoke of hell’ = summoning the devil for help -she wants dark forces to take root in her (juxtaposes her later ‘Hell is murky’)

Question 16

’ ____ ___ durst do __ ____ ___ were a ___’ Lady Macbeth Act 1 Themes = ?

Answer 16

‘When you durst do it then you were a man’ Lady Macbeth Themes = Masculinity and Femininity
- Insulting Macbeths masculinity in that he will only be a man after regicide
- She’s seen to be manipulative by trying to damage his pride in order to boost his ambition to commit the deed
- Defies Jacobean views of women needing to be submissive and less knowledgeable than their husbands - she is the domineering one of the relationship currently (although that shifts later as Macbeth’s ambition grows ‘be innocent of the knowledge’)

Question 17

‘_ ____ do so ___ _ must ___ feel it as _ ___’ _______ Act _ Themes = ?

Answer 17

’ I shall do so but I must also feel it as a man’ Macduff Act 4 Themes = Masculinity and Femininity
- This is in response to Malcolm telling him to fight Macbeth after he killed his children
- Macduff and Macbeth have contrasting views on masculinity
- Macbeth wants to be brave and strong yet Macduff wants to feel emotions and is innocent

Question 18

‘A ______ __ the mind a ____ _____ proceeding from ___ ____ oppressed _____’ Macbeth Act _ Themes = ?

Answer 18

‘A dagger of the mind a false creation proceeding from the heat oppressed brain’ Act 2 Themes = supernatural, (fate), ambition
- Dagger = metaphor for the prospect of regicide
- Adjective ‘heat oppressed’ emphasises impact of his dichotomous (two things that are opposite existing at once) feelings of guilt and ambition

Question 19

’ _ ____ a voice cry _____ __ ____ : ______ does murder _____ the ________ sleep’ Macbeth Act _ Themes = ?

Answer 19

’ I heard a voice cry sleep no more : Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep’ Act 2 Themes = Supernatural, guilt
- Exclamative sentence ‘sleep no more’ = forever condemned his mind to the relentless torment of guilt
- Motif of sleep - he’s ruined his natural ability to sleep
- Committing regicide has taken away his innocence = descent into madness

Question 20

’ _ ____ of scorpions __ __ ____ ____ ____’ ______ Act _ Themes = ?

Answer 20

‘O full of Scorpions is my mind dear wife’ Macbeth Act 3 Themes = supernatural, fear
-Metaphor
- Violent imagery of Macbeths fears of Banquo due to the prophecies
- Scorpions = significant as they put poison into your body - like the witches prophecies (reminder of the supernatural’s presence)
- ‘full’ shows he now has no remorse but only the desire to kill

Question 21

’ I have ____ _______ ___ taste __ _____’ Macbeth Act _ Themes = ?

Answer 21

‘I have almost forgotten the taste of fears’ Act 5 Themes = supernatural, lack of fear and guilt
- Metaphor
- He has ordered so many murders that he now has almost no feeling left inside of him
-Juxtaposes feeling after killing Duncan ‘A sorry sight’
- Jacobean men expected not to fear anything

Question 22

’ So ____ ___ ____ a day _ ____ ___ seen’ ______ Act 1 Themes = ?

Answer 22

‘So foul and fair a day I have not seen’ Macbeth Themes = supernatural
- It’s his first line in the play and is already mirroring the witches paradoxical language (‘fair is foul’) = foreshadows he will easily succumb to their lies
- A fair day due to his victory in battle but a foul day due to the bad weather (witches said they will meet him ‘in thunder lightning..’) - foreshadows their imminent arrival to him

Question 23

‘______ show thy ____!’ _______ Act 5 Themes = ?

Answer 23

‘Tyrant show thy face!’ Macduff Themes = Kingship
- Exclamatory sentence highlights Macduff’s desperation for revenge against Macbeth
- Tyrant = a ruler who exercises absolute power oppressively or brutally
- Macduff is the honorable hero

Question 24

’ _ ____ no words __ ____ __ my sword’ Macduff Act _ Themes = ?

Answer 24

‘I have no words my voice is my sword’ Act 5 Themes = Kingship, violence, ambition
- Violent metaphor
- Macduff saying the restoration of Scotland’s natural order requires physical violence - his ambition is to rightfully restore Scotland from Macbeth’s violation of Kingship (Divine right of Kings was disrupted)
- Macduff = perfect example of avenging hero. Although he’s motivated by revenge there’s nobility in the aim of his actions to end the chaos brought by Macbeths violation of Kingship

Question 25

‘Dead _______ and his _____ ____ Queen’ _______ Act _ Themes = ?

Answer 25

‘Dead butcher and his fiend like queen’ Malcolm Act 5
- Butcher = someone who kills implying no remorse as it’s an occupation
- Fiend like = cruel/wicked person - she is associated with the devil and now in hell for disrupting the great chain of being