Key Quotes Flashcards
“My worthy…
“My worthy Cawdor”- Duncan
“Fair is…
“Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair ”- Witch
“So Fair…
“So Fair and foul a day I have not seen”- Macbeth
“Why do you…
“Why do you fear things that do sound so Fair”- Banquo
“The instruments…
“The instruments of darkness tells us truths”
“Let not…
“Let not light see my black and deep desires”
“Pour…
“Pour my spirits”
Links to alcohol
Links to supernatural (some people label her as a 4th Witch, Suggests Macbeth has always been influenced by supernatural including his wife and the three witches)
Lady Macbeth
“We will…
“We will proceed no further in this business”
Macbeth
“You we’re…
“You we’re a man”
Her manipulation suggests she thinks he is losing his masculinity
Lady Macbeth
“B…
“Beast”
Lady Macbeth
“False fa…
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know”
He is a kind man, but he is being poisoned by Lady Macbeth
“Is this…
“Is this a dagger in which I see before me”
Macbeth
“Will all…
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood”
Not even a powerful ocean will remove the crime and the blood he has done
Macbeth
“Upon my…
“Upon my head they place a fruitless crown”
He has all the power, but he isn’t happy
He has done everything for nothing, hasn’t changed anything
Lady Macbeth
“Full of…
“Full of Scorpions is my mind”
“Be bright…
“Be bright and jovial”
Links to “be the innocent flower… but the serpent underneath”
Links to duality
Links to appearance
Lady Macbeth
“Something…
“Something wicked this way comes”
“Wicked”- suggests that he is worst than them, in those days to be a witch is horrible and the worst thing, so for Macbeth to be the worst is a very bad thin
Witch
“Will these…
“Will these hands ne’er be clean?”
Links to “Neptune’s Ocean” quote
Lady Macbeth
“Out…
“Out damned spot”
“All the perfumes of…
““All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”
Hints at her being sweet
“Sweetened”- suggests she has her femininity back and wants to be seen as a woman
“Little”- suggests that she is vulnerable and little, opposite of “unsex me here”
“Fear…
“Fear not Macbeth”
Now he is making him feel confident, he used to have Lady Macbeth but now she is guilty and very close to death
“look like…
he innocent flower, but be the serpent under it”?
