Macbeth Flashcards

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Macbeth

Theme: Supernatural
Quotes: 3

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Witches: “Fair is foul, and foul is fair

Macbeth - “Is this a dagger which I see before me?

Macbeth: “so foul and fair a day I have not seen”

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Macbeth

Theme: Ambition
Quotes: 3

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Macbeth: “Life’s… a walking shadow… signifying nothing”

Macbeth: ”I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition”

Banquo: “Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all”

Lady Macbeth: “Unsex me here”

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Macbeth

Theme: Kingship and Country
Quotes: 3

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Macduff: “Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope… the lord’s anointed temple”

Old man: “Duncan’s horses… tis said they eat each other”

Malcolm – “Our country… bleeds; and each new day a gash… is added to her wounds

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Macbeth

Theme: good and evil
Quotes: 3

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Malcolm: “This dead butcher and his fiend-like queen”

Macbeth: “so foul and fair a day I have not seen”

Macbeth: “murder… shakes so my single state of man”

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Macbeth

Theme: Appearance and reality
Quotes:4

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Macbeth: “Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?”

Macbeth: “Stars, hides your fires;… let not light see my black and deep desires”

Lady Macbeth: “Look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t”

Duncan: “There’s no art… to find the minds construction in the face.”

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Macbeth
Theme: Paranoia
Quotes: 1

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“Blood will have blood”

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Macbeth

Theme: Lady M’s Madness
Quotes: 2

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Lady M: “Out damned spot, out I say! – Hell is murky”

Doctor: “More need she the divine than the physician”

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Macbeth

Theme: Lady M manipulates M
Quotes: 1

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Lady Macbeth: “Hie thee hither, that I may pour my spirits in thine ear”

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Macbeth

Theme: Quotes from Macbeth character
Quotes: 8

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  • Theme – appearance and reality - Macbeth: “Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?”
  • Theme – appearance and reality -Macbeth: “Stars, hides your fires;… let not light see my black and deep desires”
  • Theme – Good and evil – Macbeth: “so foul and fair a day I have not seen”
  • Theme – good and evil - Macbeth: “murder… shakes so my single state of man”
  • Theme – Ambition - Macbeth: “Life’s… a walking shadow… signifying nothing”
  • Theme – Ambition – Macbeth: ”I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition”
  • Theme – Supernatural - Macbeth - “Is this a dagger which I see before me?
  • Theme – Supernatural and Good and evil – Macbeth: “so foul and fair a day I have not seen”
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Macbeth

Theme: Quotes from Lady Macbeth character
Quotes: 6

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  • Theme – appearance and reality - Lady Macbeth: “Look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t”
  • Theme – Lady M’s ambition – Lady Macbeth: “Unsex me here”
  • Theme – Lady Macbeth’s madness – “Out damned spot, out I say! – Hell is murky”
  • Theme – Lady M manipulates M – Lady Macbeth: “Hie thee hither, that I may pour my spirits in thine ear”
  • Lady Macbeth: “The very painting of your fear”
  • Lady Macbeth: “What’s done cannot be undone”
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