Key quotes Flashcards
Act 2
‘Methought I heard a _______ cry “____ no more! Macbeth does murder _____!”’
Methought I heard a voice cry “ Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep!”
Macbeth
The repetition of sleep shows how paranoid Macbeth is about firstly people knowing about the crimes he has committed, but also whether he will ever sleep again.
Act 2
“Will all _____ great ocean wash this ____ / Clean from my ____? No.”
“Will all Neptune’s great ocean wash this blood/ Clean from my hands? No.”
Macbeth
This statement suggests that no amount of water will get rid of the blood on Macbeth’s hands. The hyperbole of “all Neptune’s great oceans” implies that there will never be enough water to was the blood away
Act 2
“My _____ are of your _____; but I _____ to wear a heart so _____”
“My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white”
Lady Macbeth
This statement shoes that LM’s hands are also covered in blood, but the metaphor “I shame to wear a heart so white” suggests that LM would be ashamed if she was acting like M.
“Thou hast it now, _____, ______, all…and, I fear, Thou ______ most _____ for ‘t”
“Thou hast it now, King, Glamis, all…and, I fear, Thou playedst most foully for ‘t”
Use of verbs and adverbs like ‘fear’ and ‘foully’ show Banquo is beginning to catch onto M and LM’s plot to seize power.
“O! ___ of ________ is my ____ dear wife!”
“O! Full of scorpions is my mind dear wife!”
The noun ‘scorpions’ is showing the danger of mental instability caused by transgressing God, being punished slowly and painfully before you are killed.
Exclamitory sentence
“Out, ________ ____! ___, I say! One;Two; why, then tis time to do ‘t - ____ is murky
“Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One;Two; why, then tis time to do ‘t - hell is murky”
More religious references in the noun ‘hell’ which is where LM and M would be going based on their disruption of the great chain of being.
“Here’s the smell of _____ still: all the ______ of _____ will not sweeten this little hand”
“Here’s the smell of blood still: all the perfume of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”
Continued imagery and repetition of ‘blood’ shows the link between the Macbeths and the regicide. ‘sweeten’ also suggests bitterness, or evil inside Lady Macbeth
“I have ____ long enough: my way of life has _____ into the sere, the _____ ____”
“I have lived long enough: my way of life has fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf”
The imagery created from the adjective ‘yellow’ shows wilting of plants, ending in death. This is a comparison to Macbeth’s position of power, slipping away into obscurity.
“I’ll fight till the _____ the _____ be ______”
“I’ll fight till the bones the flesh be hacked”
Violent imagery reinforces Macbeth’s tyrannical character in the latter sections of the play
“I have ______ forgot the taste of _____”
“I have almost forgot the taste of fears”
By forgetting what fear is like, Macbeth is reinforcing his fall from grace, as he begins to lose what makes him human
“This dead _______ and his _____-like _____
“This dead butcher and his fiend-like Queen”
Violent adjectives and nouns show Macbeth is a tyrant at the end of the play.
