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1
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When shall we three meet again, in thunder lightning or in rain?

A

Weather sets a scary scene, symbolises the witches evil, up to no good.

Scary eary scene

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Fair is foul and foul is fair

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It’s switched over

Foul- bad

Fair- good

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3
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For brave Macbeth— well he deserves that name

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Brave- strong, fearless, courageous, unstoppable

Deserves- works hard, worthy, earned

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4
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Which smoked with bloody execution

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No mercy
Used lots
Covered in blood
Fast against enemy’s

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5
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Till he unseamed him from the nave to th’ chops

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Gruesome

Metaphor

Shows he is strong

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6
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So foul and fair a day I have not seen

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Macbeth

Echo switches earlier linking them together

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7
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Withered and wild

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Describes witches as outcasts

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8
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Stay you imperfect speakers

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Witches

Macbeth wants to know more. He is eager to know his future

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9
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The instruments of darkness tell us truths

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Banquo

The witches prediction was true

Metaphor

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10
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O worthiest cousin

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Duncan

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11
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My worthy Cawdor

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Duncan

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12
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Noble Banquo

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Duncan

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13
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Let not light see my black and deep desires

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Macbeth

Deep desires- ambitious to become king

Let not light- don’t let god see

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14
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All hail

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Repetition

Predicting future

Showing honour

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15
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Weird sisters

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About the witches

Odd, out of place, abnormal, different

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16
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My dearest father of greatness

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My- personal possession, claiming her

Dearest- close, precious, irreplaceable

Partner- together, equal

Greatnesses amazing, incredible, fantastic

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17
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Thy nature. It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness

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Breast milk, women trait, lady Macbeth is saying Macbeth is too weak to get what he wants. She is calling him a woman

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18
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Ambition

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She is proud of his ambition because she can’t do it without him

She wants to become queen

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19
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Hi thee hither, that I may, pour my spirits in thine ear

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Come here- she wants to help him do what he must do

She wants to convince him to murder king Duncan

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20
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Unsex me here

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Strip me of my feminine qualities, make me more like a man so I can kill Duncan

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21
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Look like that innocent flower, but be the serpent under it

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On the outside look nice, but on the inside your a horrible person

Lady Macbeth convincing him to kill the king

22
Q

Our honoured hostess

A

Respected

23
Q

Fair and noble hostess

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Fair- good

Noble- brave, linking to Macbeth- ideal women

24
Q

We love him highly, and shall continue our graces towards him

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Duncan thinks Macbeth is good/trustworthy and they will continue to honour him

25
Q

If we should fail

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He is asking lady Macbeth for help/guidance

Rhetorical question because he’s worried if he fails he will be executed

26
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But screw your courage to the sticking place and we’ll not fail

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Stand strong, don’t be afraid and everything will be ok

Imagery

Metaphor

27
Q

What cannot you and I perform upon the unguarded Ducan

A

She believes they are unstoppable together

She tries to make it sound easy so that he can do it and he can gain power easterly and quickly

28
Q

Bring fourth men-children only

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Macbeth believes lady Macbeth is too masculine to give birth to female children because she is strong and fierce

29
Q

False face must hide what the false heart doth know

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They need to fake their feelings, hide their emotions

30
Q

Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?

A

Rhetorical question

Links to the idea of killing Duncan- he is hallucinating

He thinks it’s a sign to kill Duncan (fate)

31
Q

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

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Duncan looks like her father so couldn’t kill him

32
Q

Glam is hath murdered sleep and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more: Macbeth shall sleep no more

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He won’t be able to sleep because he feels so guilty

33
Q

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

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Clean your hands to hide the evidence

Blood links him to murder

34
Q

Most sacrilegious murder

The lords anointed temple

A

Regicide

35
Q

Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis as all the wayward women promised and I fear thou play’dst most foully for ‘t

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Banquo knows Macbeth did something wrong to get what he wanted/the titles

36
Q

There is none but he whose being I do fear

A

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37
Q

Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown

A

Can’t have kids

38
Q

Banquo, thy souls flight, if it find Heaven, must find out tonight

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If your soul is going to make it to heaven

His fate will be decided (heaven or hell)tonight

He’s going to die tonight

39
Q

Macbeth Macbeth Macbeth! beware Macduff,beware the thane of fife

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A floating head warns Macbeth to be aware of Macduff, Macbeth says that he has already guessed as much

This is foreshadowing Macduff killing Macbeth

40
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Macbeth is told to be bloody bold resolute: laugh to scorn the power of man for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth

A

No one who is born naturally can kill Macbeth

41
Q

Macbeth shall never vanquished be until great birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him

A

Macbeth is informed that he will be safe until Birnam wood moves to Dunsinane hill

42
Q

Something wicked this Way comes

A

Shows Macbeth has changed from brave/honourable to evil/corrupt

43
Q

Out damned spot, out I say

A

She has got imaginary blood on her hands-she has gone mad

44
Q

The thane of fife had a wife, where is she now

A

Macduff’s wife is dead

45
Q

What will these hands never be clean?

A

She can never wash the guilt away

46
Q

Here’s the smell of the blood with all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand

A

She is smelling blood from the guilt

47
Q

I tell you yet again, Banquos buried: he cannot come out one’s grave? what’s done,cannot be undone

A

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48
Q

Bring me no more reports let them fly all: till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane, I cannot taint with fear

A

Because of the apparition he’s not afraid that he will be defeated because Birnam wood has yet to move

49
Q

What is the boy Malcolm? Was he not born of woman? The spirits that know all mortal consequences have pronounced me thus: fear not Macbeth no man that’s born of woman shall ever have power upon thee

A

He believes he has the power to survive he is confident that no one will kill him

50
Q

Let every soldier hew him down a bough and bear ‘t before him

A

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English Macbeth Quotations (1 decks)

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