Macbeth learn Flashcards
Act 1
Witches: “fair is foul, and foul is fair.”
Macbeth “unseamed” him “from the nave to the chaps”
Sergeant: “As cannons over-charged with double cracks.”
Macbeth: “Stars hide your fires” “Let not light see my black and deep desires”
Lady Macbeth: “Too full of the milk of human kindness”
Lady Macbeth: “Come, you spirits”
“unsex me here! / And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full/ Of direst cruelty!”
Lady Macbeth wishes for her “milk” to be turned into “gall”
Lady Macbeth: “Look like the innocent flower/ But be the serpent under’t”
Lady Macbeth: “while it was smiling in my face” “plucked my nipple from his boneless gums”
and “dashed the brains out”
Act 2
Macbeth: “Is this a dagger which I see before me?”
Macbeth: “But wherefore could not I pronounce Amen?/ I had most need of blessing, and Amen/ Stuck in my throat.”
Lady Macbeth: “A little water clears us of this deed.”
Old Man to Ross: “A falcon, towering in her pride of place,/ Was by a mousing owl hawked at, and killed.”
Act 3
Lady Macbeth: “ Sleek o’er your rugged looks./Be bright and jovial among your guests tonight.”
Macbeth: “Whole as the marble, founded as the rock…but now I am cabined, cribbed, confined.”
Macbeth: “There the grown serpent lies: the worm, that’s fled,/ Hath nature that in time will venom breed.”
Hecate: “This night i’ll spend/ Unto a dismal and a fatal end.”
Act 4
Witch: “Finger of birth-strangled babe,/ Ditch-delivered by a drab.”
Macbeth: “Though you untie the winds and let them fight/ Against the churches.”
Macbeth: “Then live, Macduff”
“take a bond of fate; thou shalt not live.”
Ross: “Your wife and babes/ Savagely slaughtered.”
Malcolm: “let grief/ Convert to anger. Blunt not the heart, enrage it.”
Act 5
Act five Scene one
Lady Macbeth: “Out, damned spot!”
Macbeth: “Life’s but a walking shadow.”
Macbeth: “A poor player/ That struts and frets his hour upon the stage.”
Macduff: “I have no words;/My voice is in my sword.”
“At least we’ll die with harness on our backs”
