Macbeth Flashcards
What quotations convey Macbeth’s loss of control?
“Blood will have blood.”
“I am in blood stepped in so far.”
“Is this a dagger I see before me?”
What quotations convey Macbeth’s ambition/hamartia?
“Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself.”
“Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires.”
“Doubly redoubled.”
“Smoked with bloody execution.”
What quotations convey Macbeth’s guilt?
“Will all great Neptune’s oceans wash this blood clean from my hand?”
“Sleep no more! Macbeth hath murdered sleep!”
“I am afraid to think what I have done.”
“I could not say Amen.”
What quotations convey Lady Macbeth’s duplicity?
“Act like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t.”
What quotations convey Lady Macbeth’s guilt?
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”
“Out, damned spot. Out, I say!”
“My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white.”
What quotations convey Lady Macbeth’s countertypical patriarchal role? (And her manipulative nature.)
“Give me the daggers.”
“Infirm of purpose!”
“When you durst do it, then you are a man.”
“Unsex me here.”
“Take my milk for gall.”
What quotations relate to the supernatural?
“Come you spirits.”
“Is this a dagger I see before me?”
“Fair is foul and foul is fair.”
“Fire burn and cauldron bubble.”
What quotations relate to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s deteriorating relationship?
What quotations convey King Duncan’s purity?
What are the key motifs in the play?
Blood - guilt.
Light -
Sleep - clear conscience.
What do the witches represent?
Temptation.
