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Macbeth Quotations Flashcards

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A1S1 - the witches assemble

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  • thunder and lightning
  • meet with Macbeth
  • fair is foul, and foul is fair
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A1S2 - Captain’s speech

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  • brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name
  • smok’d with bloody execution
  • unseam’d him from the nave to th’chaps
  • doubly redoubled
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A1S2 - Duncan responds to the Captain’s speech

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  • valiant cousin, worthy gentleman
  • they smack of honour both
  • with his former title greet Macbeth
  • noble Macbeth
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A1S3 - the witches assemble again

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A1S3 - the witches appear to Macbeth and Banquo

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  • so foul and fair a day
  • look not like th’inhabitants o’th’earth
  • shalt be king hereafter
  • thou shalt get kings, though thou be none
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A1S3 - Macbeth becomes Thane of Cawdor

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  • how our partner’s rapt
  • chance may crown me without my stir
  • come what come may
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A1S4 - Duncan invites himself to Inverness

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  • there’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face
  • absolute trust
  • worthiest cousin
  • I have begun to plant thee and will labour to make thee full of growing
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A1S4 - Macbeth considers his obstacles

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  • that is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap
  • stars, hide your fires
  • let not light see my black and deep desires
  • the eye wink at the hand
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A1S5 - Lady Macbeth reads Macbeth’s letter

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  • dearest partner of greatness
  • too full o’th’milk of human kindness
  • not without ambition, but without the illness that should attend it
  • pour my spirits in thine ear
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A1S5 - Lady Macbeth calls on the supernatural

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  • raven himself is hoarse
  • come, ye spirits
  • unsex me here
  • fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty
  • take my milk for gall
  • dunnest smoke of hell
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A1S5 - Macbeth returns to Inverness

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  • look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t
  • leave all the rest to me
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A1S6 - Lady Macbeth welcomes Duncan

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A1S7 - Macbeth reconsiders murdering Duncan

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A1S7 - Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth to go through with the murder

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A2S1 - Macbeth reflects on the murder he is about to commit

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  • is this a dagger
  • come, let me clutch thee
  • fatal vision
  • proceeding from the heat-oppressèd brain
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A2S2 - Macbeth instantly regrets the murder of Duncan

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A2S2 - Lady Macbeth clears up for an incapacitated Macbeth

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A2S3 - the lords react to Duncan’s death

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A2S3 - Malcolm and Donalbain run away

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A2S4 - Ross discusses affairs with an Old Man, then Macduff

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  • a falcon […] was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed
  • [Duncan’s horses] eat each other
  • {A2S3} the Earth was feverous and did shake
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A3S1 - Banquo hides his suspicion from Macbeth

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A3S1 - Macbeth reflects on the threat posed by Banquo

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A3S1 - Macbeth briefs the murderers

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A3S2 - Macbeth and Lady Macbeth discuss their situation

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A3S3 - Banquo is murdered

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A3S4 - Macbeth hears from the first murderer as the banquet begins

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A3S4 - the Ghost of Banquo appears to Macbeth

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A3S5 - the witches meet with Hecate

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A3S6 - Lennox discusses with another Lord

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A4S1 - the witches prepare to meet Macbeth

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A4S1 - Macbeth returns to the witches

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A4S2 - Macduff’s family is visited and murdered at Fife

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  • young fry of treachery
  • he has killed me, mother
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A4S3 - Malcolm tests Macduff

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A4S3 - Macduff is told of his family’s murder

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A5S1 - Lady Macbeth is witnessed sleepwalking

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A5S2 - the army approaches Inverness

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  • the English power is near
  • those he commands, move only in command, nothing in love
  • dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds
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A5S3 - Macbeth prepares for battle

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  • Seyton! - I am sick at heart
  • give me mine armour
  • cure her of that
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A5S4 - Birnam Wood marches on Dunsinane Hill

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  • confident tyrant
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A5S5 - Macbeth learns of Lady Macbeth’s death

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  • she should have died hereafter
  • tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
  • it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing
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A5S6 - the battle begins

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  • alarums continued
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A5S7 - Macbeth kills Young Siward as the battle progresses

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  • abhorred tyrant
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A5S8 - Macbeth encounters Macduff

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  • turn, hell-hound, turn
  • thou bloodier villain than terms can give thee out
  • from his mother’s womb, untimely ripp’d
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A5S9 - Malcolm is proclaimed King

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  • enter Macduff, with Macbeth’s head
  • th’usurper’s cursed head
  • henceforth be earls
  • dead butcher
  • fiend-like queen

GCSE English Literature (Edexcel) (19 decks)

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