Key Quotations Flashcards
Macbeth is hallucinating whilst trying to make his mind up about whether to kill Duncan.
“Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?”
Macbeth is starting to regret his decision to kill Duncan and does not want to think about it.
“I am afraid to think what I have done…”
Lady Macbeth wants to be turned into a man as she believes she as strong as one but can’t act upon her thoughts if she is a women, as women were seen as weak.
“Come you spirits…unsex me here And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty”
Lady Macbeth is talking about washing the blood from her hands will make them innocent from the murder and no one will find out.
“A little water clears us of this deed”
The Witches are telling Macbeth he will be king after Duncan is no longer king.
“All hail Macbeth! That shalt be king hereafter”
Banquo is being told he will not be king but his children will.
“Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.”
This is said by Lady Macbeth after she is finished reading the letter from Macbeth, which is telling her what the witches said about his future as king. She is explaining she fears Macbeth is to kind hearted to actually try and get the crown.
“Yet do I fear thy nature, It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way.”
Lady Macbeth says this when she is feeling guilty about the murder and starts to go crazy. She says the smell of blood will always stay on her hand and no perfumes could get rid of it.
“Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. “
Macbeth says this to Macduff when he is challenged. He says this because he is confident he will when the battle from when the witches say no one born from a women will defeat Macbeth. But he then finds out Macduff’s mother had a c-section.
“Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests; I bear a charmed life, which must not yield to one of woman born.”
This is where Macbeth finally realises he could die but he is not afraid and has a lot of confidence.
“I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack’d”
Lady Macbeth is telling Macbeth not to be a coward and is pressuring him.
“But screw your courage to the sticking place”
Lady Macbeth is questioning Macbeth’s love for her and saying she won’t believe him when he says he loves her.
“Was the hope drunk
Wherein you dress’d yourself? Hath it slept since?
And wakes it now, to look so green and pale
At what it did so freely? From this time
Such I account thy love.”
This shows Macbeth is well respected and trysted by King Duncan.
“O Valiant cousin, worthy gentleman”
Foreshadowing that Banquo will be a better, happier person in life and death than Macbeth and that his sons will be kings.
“Lesser than Macbeth, and greater”
“Not so happy, yet much happier”
“Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none”
This is where Macbeth says he is fine with letting his future of being king happen on it’s own and to not interfere.
“If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir”
