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Macbeth Character Quotes Flashcards

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Lady m loved and as an equal

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“My dearest partner of greatness..”

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Lady m witch like

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“Come, you spirits”

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Lady m masculine

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“Unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty “

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Lady m eager to influence

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

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Lady m ruthless

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“O, never shall sun that morrow see!”

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Lady m cunning

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“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t”

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Lady m in control

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“Leave all the rest to me”

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Lady m determined

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“Screw your courage to the sticking, place and we’ll not fail”

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Lady m admired

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“Thy undaunted mettle should compose nothing but males”

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Lady m commanding

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“Go get some water, and wash this filthy witness from your hands”

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Lady m godless

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“Doctor: more needs she the divine than the physician”

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Lady m guilt ridden

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“What, will these hands ne’er be clean?”

“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”

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Lady m honourable

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“I would..have…dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn”

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Lady m some conscience

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“Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t”

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Lady m contemptuous

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“Infirm of purpose!”

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Lady m fearful

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“she has Light by her continually”

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King Duncan respected

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“Thy royal father was a most sainted king”

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Duncan powerful

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“No more that than of Cawdor shall deceive … go pronounce his present death”

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Duncan humble

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“Ross(to Macbeth): His wonders and his praises do contend which should be thine or his”

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Duncan grateful

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“More is thy due than more than all can pay”

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Duncan expressive

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(Cries with joy)

“My plenteous joys wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves in drops of sorrow”

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Duncan trusting

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“Fair and noble hostess, we are your guest tonight”

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Duncan respectful

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“O valiant cousins! Worthy gentleman”

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Duncan rewarding

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“With his former title greet Macbeth”

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Duncan betrayed

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“He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust” - ironic as followed by “enter Macbeth”

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Witches portentous

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“So foul and fair a day I have not seen”

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Witches masculine

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“You should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so”

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Witches unearthly

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“(Macbeth) what seem’d corporal melted as breath into the wind”

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Witches united

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“I’ll give thee a wind. Thou’re kind. And I another”

“The weird sisters hand in hand”

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Witches timely

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“(Macbeth) they met me in the day of success”

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Witches proud, successful and recognise evil

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“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes”

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Witches equivocal

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“None of woman born shall harm Macbeth”

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Witches credible

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“All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!”

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Witches scheming

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“Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble”

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Witches bewildering

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“Not so happy, yet much happier”

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Witches tempting

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“All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter”

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Witches supernatural

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“So wither’d and so wild … That look not like the inhabitants o’ the earth”

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Witches butter

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“I’ll drain him dry as hay”

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Macbeth valiant

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“His brandish’d steel…smoked with blood execution”

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M respected

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“O valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman”

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M loving

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“My dearest partner of greatness”

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M curious

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“Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more”

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M not naturally ruthless

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“..too full o’ the milk of human kindness”

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M pessimistic

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“ I have no spur to prick the sides of my intention, but only vaulting ambition”

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M unconvinced

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“I dare do all that may become a man;who dares do more is none”

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M regretful

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“Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!”

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M committed

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“I am in blood stepp’d I’m so far that, should wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er”

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M fearless and misled

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“Till Birnam Wood remove to Dunsiane, I cannot taint with fear”

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M subborn

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“I will not yield to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet”

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M godless

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“ I had most need of blessing, and ‘Amen’ stuck in my throat”

“Devilish Macbeth”

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M conflicted

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“…his host…should against his murderer shut the door, not bear the knife myself”

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M pensive

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“This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill , cannot be good”

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M admired

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(Seargent) “brave Macbeth — we’ll be deserves that name”

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Banquo disbelieving

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“Have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?”

55
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B cautious

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“…instruments of darkness tell us truths”

56
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B troubled

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By the prophecy

“A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, and yet I would not sleep”

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B tempted

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“May they not be oracles as well and set me up in hope?”

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B a threat

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Macbeth “there is none but he whose being I do fear.

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B vengeful

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“Thou may revenge”

60
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B protective

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“Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!”

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