Macbeth Flashcards
What quote in an aside by Macbeth highlights his evil and secret ambitions?
“stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires”
What quote shows Macbeths instant and overwhelming guilt after killing Duncan?
“will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand”
What quote shows how Macbeth recognises that killing Duncan could result in his death?
“bloody instructions, which, being taught, return/ to plague the inventor”
What quote shows how Duncan believes there’s no way of telling what’s going on in a man’s mind?
“there’s no art to find the minds construction in the face”
What quote said by Lady Macbeth suggests she believes that once he kills the King, he would be considered a real man?
“when you durst do it, then you were a man”
What quote in act 5 shows how LM is hallucinating blood on her hands and is going mad?
“out damned spot: out i say!”
What hyperbole in act 5 emphasises LMs anguish and heart ache for what she has done?
“all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”
What quote highlights Macbeths ambitions by comparing it to a horse?
“I have no spur/ to prick the sides of my intent, but only/ vaulting ambition”
What quote relates to how Banquo believes that Macbeth has committed regicide?
“and I fear thou played’st most foully for it”
What two quotes relate to the corruption of nature/disruption to Gods ordained order?
“Fair is foul and foul is fair” and “So foul and fair a day I have not seen”
What quote comes immediately after the murder of King Duncan and suggests he will now not be able to sleep due to guilt?
“Macbeth does murder sleep”
What is a warning/fortelling of what will happen to Macbeth that is said by Banquo about the witches?
“the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betrays in deepest consequences”
What quote shows how Macbeth is hoping that he will not have to do anything to become King and that fate will take care of it?
“If chance will have me King, why chance may crown me”
What quote said by LM shows she is worried about her husbands kindness and lack of ambition- showing she is crueler?
“Yet do I fear the nature, it is too full o’ the milk of human kindness”
What quote said by Donalbain shows his fear for people wanting to kill him?
“there’s daggers in men’s smiles”
