Macbeth Flashcards
Macbeth - Ambition and Power (Act 1, Scene 7)
”..but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other.”
Macbeth - Descent into Tyranny (Act 3, Scene 4)
“I am in blood stepped in so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er.”
Macbeth - Realization of Guilt (Act 5, Scene 5)
“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day.”
Lady Macbeth - Manipulation (Act 1, Scene 5)
“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t.”
Lady Macbeth - Guilt and Madness (Act 5, Scene 1)
“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!”
Lady Macbeth - Power Dynamics (Act 1, Scene 7)
“When you durst do it, then you were a man.”
Witches - Prophecy and Fate (Act 1, Scene 3)
“All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!”
Witches - foreshadowing of oncoming evil (Act 4, Scene 1)
“Double, double toil and trouble”
Witches - Ambiguity and Deception (Act 1, Scene 1)
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”
Scotland - Tyranny Under Macbeth’s rule (Act 4, Scene 3)
“Bleed, bleed, poor country! Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure, for goodness dare not check thee.”
Scotland - Corruption: (Act 4, Scene 3)
“Each new morn, new widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows strike heaven on the face.”
Scotland - Restoration of Order: (Act 5, Scene 9)
“The time is free.”
Blame - Macbeth’s Responsibility (Act 2, Scene 1)
“Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?”
Blame - Lady Macbeth’s Influence (Act 1, Scene 7)
“What beast was’t then that made you break this enterprise to me?”
Blame - Witches’ Prophecies (Act 1, Scene 3)
“Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.”
Lady Macbeth - Macbeth’s nature (Act 1 Scene 5)
“Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness”
The Captain - Macbeth as a renowned man (Act 1 Scene 1)
For brave Macbeth —well
he deserves that name
Macbeth - cycle of violence (Act 3, Scene 4)
“Blood will have blood.”
King Duncan
“There’s daggers in men’s smiles”
Macbeth
false
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”
Lady Macbeth
“Come you spirits, That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here.”
Macbeth
“Stars, hide your fires, Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
Lady Macbeth
done
“what’s done cannot be undone”
