Macbeth Flashcards
What shows that Lady Macbeth doubts her husband’s ability to act?
She thinks by nature that he is:
‘too full of the milk of human kindness’
He has ambition but not the necessary wickedness:
‘art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it’
[illness = wickedness]
What quote shows appearance vs reality?
Lady Macbeth tells him to:
‘look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t’
Macbeth knows the deception needed:
‘false face must hide what the false heart doth know’
false face: mustn’t show guilt
false heart = treacherous, he killed King
What shows Macbeth’s regret over his actions?
‘I am afraid to think what I have done’
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?’
How does Macbeth react when Lady Macbeth dies?
Rather emotion-less; he says she would have died eventually anyway:
‘she should have died hereafter’
‘a tale told by an idiot…signifying nothing’
What quote shows Macbeths strength at the start of the play
“His brandished steel… Smoked with bloody execution”
Which quote shows that Macbeth is pessimistic?
“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself and falls onto th’other”
What quote shows Macbeths guilt after he is committed to his negative acts?
“I am in blood stepp’d in so far, that i should wade no more”
