Key Quotations in Macbeth Flashcards

1
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What quotation shows that the witches instantly create an ambiguous atmosphere?

A

“Fair is foul and foul is fair”

1.1

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2
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What quotation shows Macbeth’s brutal killing of the rebel Macdonwald?

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“He unseamed him from the nave to th’chops”

1.2

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3
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What quotation shows Banquo’s shock when the witches prediction comes true?

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“What! Can the devil speak true?”

1.3

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4
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What quotation shows Macbeth struggles to hide his desire to kill the king?

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“Let not light see my black and deep desires”

1.4

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5
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What quotation shows Lady Macbeth’s worry that Macbeth is too weak to murder?

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“It is too full of the milk of human kindness”

1.5

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6
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What quotation shows Duncan’s ironic statement of how lovely Macbeth’s castle is?

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“This castle hath a pleasant seat”

1.6

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7
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What quotation shows Macbeth is recognising his ambition running away with him?

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“Vaulting ambition / Which overleaps itself”

1.7

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8
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What quotation shows that Macbeth sees a vision of a dagger?

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“Is this a dagger which i see before me”

2.1

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9
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What quotation shows Lady Macbeth believes they can wash away the evidence?

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“A little water clears us of this deed”

2.2

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10
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What quotation shows Macduff’s utter disgust upon finding Duncan’s corpse?

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“Oh horror, horror, horror”

2.3

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11
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What quotation shows Macduff goes home opposed to attending the Macbeth’s coronation?

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“No cousin, i’ll to fife”

2.4

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12
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What quotation shows Banquo begins to recognise Macbeth is scheming?

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“I fear thou play’dst most foully for it”

3.1

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13
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What quotation shows that Macbeth’s mental state is beginning to deteriorate?

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“O full of scorpions is my mind”

3.2

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14
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What quotation shows Banquo cries to Fleance to escape?

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“Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!”

3.3

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15
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What quotation shows that Macbeth orders Banquo’s ghost to disappear?

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“Hench, horrible shadow”

3.4

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16
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What quotation shows Hecate’s description of Macbeth?

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“A wayward son, spiteful and wrathful”

3.5

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17
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What quotation shows that Lennox laments the state of Scotland under the Macbeth’s reign?

A

“Our suffering country, under an accursed hand”

3.6

18
Q

What quotation shows the Witches description of Macbeth as he approaches?

A

“Something wicked this way comes”

4.1

19
Q

What quotation shows that Lady Macduff criticises her husband?

A

“Wisdom! To leave his wife, his babes?”

4.2

20
Q

What quotation shows Macduff’s utter grief when he discovers his family’s slaughter?

A

“What, all my pretty chickens?”

4.3

21
Q

What quotation shows that Lady Macbeth’s guilt cannot be washed away?

A

“Out, damned spot, out i say!”

5.1

22
Q

What quotation shows Angus’s description of Macbeth?

A

“Like a giant’s robe on a dwarfish thief”

5.2

23
Q

What quotation shows that Macbeth reminds himself that he is infallible?

A

“No man born of woman shall ever have power upon thee”

5.3

24
Q

What quotation shows Malcolm orders his soldiers to cut down tree for camouflage?

A

“Let every soldier hew him down a bough”

5.4

25
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What quotation shows Macbeth voices his despair about the hopelessness of life?

A

“Life’s but a walking shadow”

5.5

26
Q

What quotation shows Malcolm’s description of Macduff as he leads the army into war?

A

“Worthy Macduff”

5.6

27
Q

What quotation shows that Macbeth revels in the belief he cannot be killed?

A

“But swords i smile at, weapons laugh to scorn”

5.7

28
Q

What quotation shows that Macduff declares he was not born of women?

A

“Macduff was from his mother’s womb / Untimely ripped”

5.8

29
Q

What quotation shows the witches are supernatural?

A

“Double double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble”

30
Q

What quotation shows how ruthlessly Lady Macbeth pursues the crown?

A

“dashed the brains out”

31
Q

What quotation shows that Lady Macbeth is seen as evil?

A

“fiend like queen”

32
Q

What quotation shows that Macbeth respects LM?

A

“partner in greatness”

33
Q

What quotation shows that LM manipulates macbeth by underestimating him, showing that she relies on manipulation and persuasion to achieve her own goals?

A

“you were a man”

34
Q

What quotation, regarding LM’s death, shows that macbeth has becomes desensitised to all human feeling and is a metaphor for the fact that life ends too quickly?

A

“out,out brief candle”

35
Q

What quotation shows that Banquo was regarded as better than macbeth?

A

“lesser than macbeth and greater”

36
Q

What quotation shows that banquets ghost ironically foreshadows the futures as the ghost occupies macbeth seat as do his descendants occupy his throne?

A

“push us from our stools”

37
Q

What quotation shows that LM puts blame onto Macbeth and shows that she is more ambitious?

A

‘but screw your courage to the sticking place and we’ll not fail”

38
Q

What quotation shows that the witches create an ambitious atmosphere?

A

“hover through the fog and filthy air”

39
Q

What does “thunder” symbolise?

A

It’s a sign of imminent death and an east wind represents evil, as alluded to in the bible. Symbolises disruption

40
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What does “serpent” suggest?

A

suggests Temptation and loss of innocence through the biblical story of adam & eve.

41
Q

Whats the importance that it follows a cyclical structure?

A

macbeth becomes the enemy he wanted to kill

42
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What does “near in blood” suggest?

A

Blood is part of the imagery that pervades the play, creating a sense of menace. This symbolises macbeth evil