Macbeth Flashcards
Guilt - heard a voice cry
“I heard a voice cry ‘sleep no more! MAcbeth does murder sleep”
Guilt - out
“Ou, out damned spot!”
Guilt - neptunes ocean
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”
Guilt - Ever be clean
“Will my hands ever be clean?”
Guilt - Tomorrow
“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in at this pretty pace from day to day”
-repetition
Guilt - art thou a …
“Art thou a dagger of the mind, a false creation proceeding from the head-oppressed brain.”
Gender - unsex me
“You spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here.”
Gender - milk of human kindness
“I fear thy nature is too full o’ the milk of human kindness.”
Gender - coward on esteem
“And like a coward in thine own esteem.”
Gender - men children only
“[you] bring fourth men - children only.”
Gender - repetition would murder
“The repetition in a woman’s ear, would murder as it fell.”
-irony
Ambition - vault
“But only vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other.”
Ambition - eternal jewel
“My eternal jewel given to the common enemy of man.”
Ambition - barran and fruitless
“Fruitless crown” “barren sceptre”
Ambition - sear
“Thy crown does sear mine eye-balls”
