Macbeth Act 4 Flashcards
Witch- ‘something
wicked this way comes’
Apparition 1
‘Beware Macduff, beware the Thane of Fife’
Apparition 2
‘None of woman born shall harm Macbeth’
Apparition 3
‘Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him’
M- ‘No boasting
like a fool: this deed I’ll do before this purpose cool’
Lady Macduff- ‘When our actions
do not, our fears do make us traitors’
Ross- ‘Your husband,
he is noble, wise, judicious, and best knows the fits o’the season’
Macduff- ‘Each new morn
new widows howl, new orphans cry; new sorrows strike heaven on the face’
Malcolm- ‘This tyrant
whose sole name blisters our tongues, was once thought honest’
Malcolm- ‘I think our country
sinks beneath the yoke; it weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds.’
3 descriptions of Macbeth
‘black Macbeth’
‘untitled tyrant’
‘Devilish Macbeth’
Macduff- ‘Not in
the legions of horrid hell can come a devil more damned in evils to top Macbeth’
Malcolm- ‘With this strange
virtue he hath a heavenly gift of prophecy, and sundry blessings hang about his throne’
Ross- ‘Alas,
poor country, almost afraid to know itself’
Description of king Edward
‘Gracious England’
