Macbeth Flashcards
Quote that shows Macbeth’s fear of doing something evil straight after the witches tell him their prophecy
“Why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs” - Act 1 Scene 3 (Aside)
Quote that shows Macbeth has a fear of becoming unnatural and losing his moral compass through committing evil
“I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.” Act 1 Scene 7
Quotes that show Macbeth fears what he has done after killing Duncan
“Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more; Macbeth does murder sleep”
“Still it cried ‘Sleep no more’ .. ‘Glamis hath murdered sleep; and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more’”
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine Making the green one red.”
All in Act 2 Scene 2 when talking to LM
Quote showing Macbeth’s paranoia to losing his throne (Point 1/3)
“For them I the gracious Duncan have I murder’d; put rancours in the vessel of my peace Only for them, and mine eternal jewel given to the common enemy of man To make them Kings - the seeds of Banquo kings!” Act 3 scene 1
Another quote showing Macbeth’s fear of Fleance and Banquo
“ O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!” - Act 3 Scene 2 (Talking about Banquo and Fleance still being alive)
Once Macbeth unravels he begins to feel paranoid and goes to see the witches what three things is he told?
“Beware the Thane of Fife.”
“Be bloody, bold and resolute; laugh to scorn the pow’r of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth.”
“Macbeth shall never vanquish’d be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane Hill.”
How is fear of Macduff shown
He overcompensates by punishing him by killing his family
“Seize upon Fife, give to the edge o’ th’ sword his wife, his babes and all unfortunate souls that trace him in his line” Act 4 Scene 1
Quote that shows Macbeth lacks fear after witches prophecy
“I will not be afraid of death and bane till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane.” Act 5 Scene 3 when talking to the doctor
Show quote that shows Macbeth has finally lost any sense of fear after the prophecy
After women shriek due to Lady Macbeth’s dying he says “I have almost forgotten the taste of fears. The time has been my senses would have cool’d to hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in’t” - Act 5 Scene 5
Duncan presented as natural due to divine right of kings
“I have begun to plant thee and will labour to make thee full of growing.” Act 1 Scene 4
Quote that shows Malcolm as having Divine Right of Kings
“Signs of nobleness like stars shall shine.” Act 1 Scene 4
Quotes in reference to sleep being healing - connect to scrofula
“Knits up the ravelled sleeve of care”
“Balm of hurt minds” - Act 2 Scene 2
