Macbeth 10 Easy Quotes To Learn

Question 1

Macbeth’s deepest desires doesn’t want to be seen by even the most potent object. Furthermore, Macbeth uses rhyming couplets almost immitating the witches as they speak in rhyming couplets which links towards the exploiting of the supernatural and their/its powers.

Answer 1

“Stars hide your fires, let not light see my deep dark desires.” - Macbeth (A1, S4)

Question 2

This quotes is basically the opening quote of Macbeth and summarises the entire play itself as a tragity.

Answer 2

“Fair is foul and foul is fair” - Witches (A1, S1)

Question 3

Captain Ross compliments Macbeth for his accomplishments in the battlefield against the traitor - the Thane of Cawdor.

Answer 3

“Brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name” - Captain Ross (A1, S2)

Question 4

Lady Macbeth commands upon the devils to reduce her femenine attributes and replace it with masculine attributes.

Answer 4

“Come you spirits, that tend on moral thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty.” - Lady Macbeth (A1, S5)

Question 5

Lady Macbeth underminds Macbeth of his masculinity after he begins to have second thoughts about killing Duncan; arguably, this is what pushes Macbeth to proceed in killing Duncan.

Answer 5

“When thou durst do it, then you were a man” - Lady Macbeth (A1, S7)

Question 6

Macbeth’s guilt begins to overwhelm Macbeth as his composure - he states how cemented the guilt is by describing it as permanent by questioning a God’s power and domain.

Answer 6

“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand” - Macbeth (A2, S2)

Question 7

Macbeth uses a metaphore to show the fragility of life as he describes it as a candle. Furthermore, he adds that life is a walking shadow suggesting that life is dull (as nothing in a shadow changes) or life is just a drag despite all the hardships achieved by the person, the shadow is always follows.

Answer 7

“Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow” - Macbeth (A2, S5)

Question 8

Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth to be manipulative / deceptive of his appearance (to be two-faced) in order to strike on his prey. This quote completely opposes the ideology that women during the Jacobean era were weak and fragile as Lady Macbeth seems to assert her foot on the plan to kill King Duncan.

Answer 8

“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t” - Lady Macbeth (A1, S5)

Question 9

This highlights Macbeth’s gradual downfall as the following mirrors a domino due to Macbeth’s greed for power and ambitions getting the worst of him which results in his tragic death in the end of the play.

Answer 9

“Full of scorpions is my mind” - Macbeth (A2, S3)

Question 10

Banquo continues to speculate the ‘truths’ of the witches. Furthermore, Banquo symbolizes the witches as instruments which are played to please both Macbeth and Banquo but will turn of them as a result of a tragic chorus.

Answer 10

“The instruments of darkness tells us truths; win us with honest trifles, to betray’s in deepest consequence” - Banquo (A1, S3)