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macbeth Flashcards

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MACBETH-
“O full…

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“O full of scorpions is my mind dear wife”
-Act 3 scene 2

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LADY MACBETH-
“Come you…

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“Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here”
-Act 1 scene 5

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KING DUNCAN-
“O Valiant…

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“O Valiant cousin, worthy gentleman”
- Act 1 scene 2

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BANQUO-
“The instruments of…

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“The instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles to betray in deepest consequence”
-Act 1 scene 3

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MACBETH-
“My dearest…

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“My dearest partner of greatness”
-Act 1 scene 5

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LADY MACBETH-
“Look like the…

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“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under ‘t’”
Act 1 scene 5

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LADY MACBETH-
“Yet i do fear thy…

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“Yet i do fear thy nature is to full of the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way”
-Act 1 scene 5

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LADY MACBETH-
“I would, while it was smiling in my face,…”

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“I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from its boneless gums and dashed the brains out.”
Act 1 scene 7

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MACBETH-
“Is this a…

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“Is this a dagger which i see before me, the handle towards my hand, come let me clutch thee.”
Act 2 scene 1

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MACBETH-
“Or art a dagger of the…

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“Or art a dagger of the mind, a false creation proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain.”
Act 2 scene 1

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MACBETH-
“will all great…

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“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”
-Act 2 scene 2

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LADY MACBETH-
“A little…

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“A little water clears us of this deed.”
Act 2 scene 2

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MACDUFF-
“O gentle lady…

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“O gentle lady, tis not for you to hear what i can speak. The repetition in a women’s ear would murder as it fell”
Act 2 scene 3

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OLD MAN-
“Duncan’s horses, a thing most…

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“Duncan’s horses, a thing most strange and certain turned wild in nature”
-Act 2 scene 4

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BANQUO-
“And as the weird…

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“And as the weird women promised, i fear thou played most foully for it.”
Act 3 scene 1

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MACBETH-
“To be thus…

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“To be thus is nothing but to be safely thus”
-Act 3 scene 1

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MACBETH-
“Upon my head they…

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“Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown and put a barren scepter in my gripe”
-Act 3 scene 1

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LADY MACBETH-
“O proper stuff…

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“O proper stuff, this is the very painting of your fear”
-Act 3 scene 4

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MACBETH-
“How now you…

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“How now you secret black and midnight hags”
-Act 4 scene 1

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MACBETH-
“The castle of Macduff…

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“The castle of Macduff i will surprise, seize upon fife, give to the edge of the sword his wife,his babes and all other unfortunate souls that trace him”
Act 4 scene 2

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MACDUFF-
“O nation…

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“O nation miserable! With an untitled tryrant, bloody-sceptered , when shalt thou see thy wholesome days again.”
Act 4 scene 3

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MACDUFF-
“But i must also…

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“But i must also feel it as a man.”
Act 4 scene 3

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MALCOM-
“This tyrant whose sole name…

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“This tyrants whose sole name blisters our tongue”
Act 4 scene 3

24
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LADY MACBETH-
“out damned…

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“Out damned spot! Out i say”
Act 5 scene 1

25
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MACBETH
“Life’s but a…

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“Life but a walking shadow… Its a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”
-Act 5 scene 5

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MACDUFF-
“Turn…

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“Turn hell-hound turn”
-Act 5 scene 8

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MACDUFF-
“Tell thee Macduff was from his…

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“Tell thee Macduff was from his mothers womb untimely ripped”
-Act 5 scene 8

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MALCOM-
“Of this dead…

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“Of this dead butcher and his fiend like queen.”
-Act 5 scene 9

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MACBETH-
“Stay you…

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“Stay you imperfect speakers”
-Act 1 scene 3

30
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BANQUO-
“Or have we…

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“Or have we eaten upon the insane root”
-Act 1 scene 3

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MACBETH-
“Prithee, peace…

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“Prithee, peace. I dare do all that may become a man”
-Act 1 scene 7

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LADY MACBETH-
“When you durst…

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“When you durst do it then you are a man”
-Act 1 scene 7

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MACBETH-
“Glamis hath murdered…

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“Glamis hath murdered sleep and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more”
-Act 2 scene 2

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LADY MACBETH-
“But i shame to…

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“But i shame to wear a heart so white.”
-Act 2 scene 2

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LENNOX-
“The night was…

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“The night was unruly… some say the earth was feverous and did shake”
-Act 2 scene 3

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MACBETH-
“O, yet i do repent me…

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“O, yet i do repent me of my fury that i did kill them.”
-Act 2 scene 3

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DONALDBAIN-
“There are…

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“There are daggers in mens smile.”
-Act 2 scene 4

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LADY MACBETH-
“Are you…

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“Are you a man?”
-Act 3 scene 4

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MACBETH-
“I have no spurs to…

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” I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition.”
-Act 1 scene 7

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MACBETH-
“Hear it not Duncan,…

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“Hear it not Duncan, for it is a knell, that summons thee to heaven or to hell”
-Act 2 scene 1

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