Macbeth Key Quotes + Analysis

Question 1

5 Quotes for the theme of The Supernatural

Answer 1

“That look not like th’ inhabitants o’ th’ Earth and yet are on ‘t”
“Come you spirits that tend on my evil thoughts”
“Is this a dagger which i see before me, the handle towards my hand”
“My wifes and children’s ghost will haunt me still “
“Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth”

Question 2

3 Quotes for the theme of Ambition

Answer 2

“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, only vaulting ambition”
“The dead butcher and his fiend-like queen”
“Thou wouldst be greatest art without ambition but without the illness should attend it”

Question 3

Three quotes for the theme of Gender

Answer 3

“When you durst do it, then you were a man”
“Come you spirits [..] unsex me here”

Question 4

Three quotes for the theme of fate and free will

Answer 4

“If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me without my stir”
“Is this a dagger which i see before me”
“Fleance his son must embrace the fate of that dark hour”

Question 5

Three quotes for the theme Good v Evil

Answer 5

“Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires”
“I could not say ‘amen’”
“His virtues will plead like angels”

Question 6

Three quotes for Appearance vs Reality

Answer 6

“Look like the flower but be the serpent underneath it”
“Fair is foul and foul is fair”

Question 7

5 Quotes for the theme Guilt

Answer 7

“A little water clear us of this deed/All the perfumes of arabia will not sweeten this little hand”
“Macbeth does murder sleep”
“O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife”

Question 8

3 Quotes for Loyalty

Answer 8

“I am his kinsman and his subject”
“My bossom franchised and allegiance’s clear”

Question 9

3 quotes on the theme of Power

Answer 9

“And though i could with barefaced power sweep him from my sight”

Question 10

5 Quotes on Kingship/Tyranny

Answer 10

“Valiant cousin, worthy gentlemen”
“Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom”
“Hie thee hither, that i may pour my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valour of my tongue”
“Thy hope ends here”

Question 11

3 Quotes on the theme Violence

Answer 11

“Till he unseamed him from the nave to the chops”
“I would while it was smiling in my face, / have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums”
“The usupers cursed head”