Macbeth Quotations Flashcards
Macduff - Loyal
“I put myself in thy direction”
“Child of integrity”
“To thy good truth and honor”
Structure: foil to Macbeth
Macduff - brave
“My voice is in my sword”
“Then yield thee coward”
“Bring thou this fiend of Scotland & myself”
Structure: kills Macbeth at end - savior
Macduff - revengeful
“Cut short all intermission”
“Within my sword’s length set him “
Banquo - trustworthy
“Have we eaten on the insane root?” (Distance from witches)
“My bosom franchised & allegiance clear”
Structure: resistance throughout play until point of death
Banquo - noble
“Our captains”
“Wisdom doth guide his valour”
“His Royalty of nature”
Structure: foil to Macbeth
Banquo - suspicious of macbeth”
“Might inkindle you unto the crown”
“The instruments of darkness tells us truths” (contrast to LMB “blanket of dark”)
3 witches - equivocators
“None of woman born shall harm Macbeth”
“Birnam Wood to Hugh Dunsinane Hill”
3 witches - powerful
“Thou shalt get kings”
Opening starts w/ witches - “when battles lost and won”
Structure: foreshadow Macbeth and responsible for future “fair is foul and foul is fair”
3 witches - supernatural
“Listen but speak not to’t”
“Thrice is thine and thrice is mine and thrice again to make them 9”
Structure: witches speak in 3 to show supernatural
Lady Macbeth - evil
“Come you spirits, tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here”
“And fill me from the crown to the top full of direst cruelty”
“Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t”
Lady Macbeth - manipulative
“A foolish thought”
“When you durst do it, then you were a man”
“Great glamis, worthy cawdor”
Structure: repetition of q.s. In 1:7
Lady Macbeth - regretful
“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!”
“I’ll go to murky hell” followed by “the queen, my lord, is dead”
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”
Structure: 5:1 and 1:5 juxtapose
Macbeth - guilty
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood from my hand”
“Make my seated heart knock at my ribs”
“This is a sorry sight”
“I am in blood, stepped in so far, that I shall wade no more”
Strcuture: soliloquy to show inner most thoughts
4th quote commas to create pauses and show chain of thoughts
Macbeth - ruthless
“Give to the edge o’th’sword…that trace him in his line”
“With barefaced power sweep him from sight”
“Now I see tis’ true, for blood-bolter’d Banquo”
Macbeth - villainous
“T’appease an angry God”
“Come a devil more damn’d in evils to top Macbeth”
“Have may you see the tyrant”
Structure: Contrast to beginning of play “brave Macbeth”
