Macbeth Flashcards
THE WITCHES - CHARACTER
-[thunder and lightning]
-‘so foul and fair a day I have not seen’
-‘fair is foul and foul is fair’
-‘by the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes’
MACBETH - CHARACTER
‘brandished steel smoked with bloody execution’
‘with Tarquin’s ravishing strides towards his design’
‘worthy gentlemen’ -> ‘bloodier villain’
‘Amen’ was ‘stuck in my throat’
LADY MACBETH - CHARACTER
‘will these hands ever be clean’, ‘out damned spot, out I say.’
‘look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent underneath’
‘come you spirits, unsex me here’
‘fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty.’
‘when you durst do it, then you are a man’
BANQUO - CHARACTER
‘I fear thou played most foully for it’
‘fly good Fleance, fly fly fly!’
‘instruments of darkness tell us truths’
‘what, can the devil speak true?’
‘may they not be oracles as well and set me up in hope?’
DUNCAN - CHARACTER
‘O valiant cousin! Worthy gentlemen!’
‘He was a gentlemen whom I built an absolute trust.’
‘More is thy due than more than all can pay’
‘I have begun to plant thee’/’Had he not resembled my father’(LM)