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Macbeth Quotations Act 1 Flashcards

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Act1 scene1: Third Witch: This shows that Mac is linked with evil

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“There to meet with Macbeth”

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Act1 Scene1: All witches: Good is bad and bad is good. Demonstrates moral confusion and a scene of chaos and that things aren’t what they seam.

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“Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.”

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Act1 Scene2: Sergeant: positive impression of Mac

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“Brave Macbeth”

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Act1 Scene2: Sergeant: Description of Mac killing rebel leader by slicing him from the belly to his throat. (capable warrior or blood thirsty)

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“unseamed him from the nave to the chops,
And fixed his head upon our battlements.”

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Act1 Scene2: Duncan: positive description of Mac from the king

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“O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!”

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Act1 Scene2: Duncan:Both Mac and Ban are full of honour.

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“They smack of honour both.”

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Act1 Scene2: Duncan: Mac has won the title of Cawdor after fighting bravely for the king. (Ironic Mac got the title of a traitor when he too will betray the king.)

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“What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.”

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Act1 Scene3: All witches: describe themselves as the.

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“Weird sisters”

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Act1 Scene3: Macbeth: Repeats what the witches say making him linked with evil.

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“So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”

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Act1 Scene3: The Witches: Read Mac his professy telling him what he is, what he’ll be given and what he’ll take.

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“All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!
All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!
All hail, Macbeth! that shalt be king hereafter!”

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Act1 Scene3: Banquo: Description of Macs reaction of shock and fear after hearing his professy.

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“Why do you start; and seem to fear Things that do sound so fair?”

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Act1 Scene3: Banquo: speaks to the witches strongly saying I’m not afraid or beg them to tell him his professy

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“Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear
Your favours nor your hate.”

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Act1 Scene3: All witches: Tell Ban his professy they start of with two contradictions and say he will be the father to kings but never a king himself.

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“Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.
“Not so happy, yet much happier.
Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.”

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Act1 Scene3: Macbeth: Mac is trying to say that the witches can’t be right cos the thane of Cawdor isn’t dead

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“The Thane of Cawdor lives”

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Act1 Scene3: Macbeth: Uses a metaphor and clothing imagery as he asked the kings men why they call him by a title that isn’t his.

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“why do you dress me
In borrowed robes?”

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Act1 Scene3: Macbeth: The greatest of his professy is yet to come showing his ambition to become king.

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“Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor
The greatest is behind.”

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Act1 Scene3: Macbeth: The greatest of his professy is yet to come showing his ambition to become king.

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“Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor
The greatest is behind.”

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Act1 Scene3: Banquo: Is suspicious and cautious of the witches intent. Saying sometimes evil forces tell us half truths to betray us resulting in the worst consequences

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“oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths.
Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s
In deepest consequence.”

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Act1 Scene3: Macbeth: He hopes to become king without having to do any thing by just leaving faith do it’s thing (killing the king Duncan)

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“If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me,
Without my stir.”

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Act1 Scene4: Duncan: taros about haw he trusted the first thane of Cawdor (he is a bad judge of character)

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“He was a gentleman on whom I built
An absolute trust.”

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Act1 Scene4: Duncan: Again making a bad judge of character in Mac

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“O worthiest cousin!”

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Act1 Scene4: Duncan: Here he names his son Malcolm as heir to the throne

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“Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter
The Prince of Cumberland; which honour must
Not unaccompanied invest him only,
But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine
On all deservers.”

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Act1 Scene4: Macbeth: Mac sees Malcolm as an obstacle to get around. He is also preparing to commit a crime but doesn’t want to do it.

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“That is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o’er-leap,
For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires!
Let not light see my black and deep desires:”

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Act1 Scene5: Lady Macbeth: Mac sees her as his equal

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“My dearest partner of greatness,”

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Act1 Scene5:Lady Macbeth: Thinks Mac is too soft and isn’t man enough to kill Duncan

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“I fear thy nature;
It is too full o’the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way.”

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Act1 Scene5: Lady Macbeth: lady Macbeth wants to influence Mac to kill Duncan

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“Hie thee hither,
That I may pour my spirits in thine ear”

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Act1 Scene5: lady Macbeth: she has decided that Duncan will die in there castle when he comes to visit. She calls the evil spirits to give he more power equal to that of a man

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“The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements. Come, you spirits
That tend on moral thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty!”

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Act1 Scene5: lady Macbeth: calling darkness to camouflage the things she will do as well as there consequences

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“Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,”

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Act1 Scene5: Macbeth: description of there loving relationship

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“My dearest love,”

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Act1 Scene5: lady Macbeth: she is determined to kill Duncan and he will never see the light of morning

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“O, never
Shall sun that morrow see!”

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Act1 Scene5: lady Macbeth: sates to look innocent but be dangerous. This played on the them of impressions v reality

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“look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under’t.”

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Act1 Scene5:lady Macbeth: she is taking on the organisation of the murder.

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“Leave all the rest to me.”

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Act1 Scene5: Macbeth: we don’t know if this means he’s on board with the idea or not.

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“We will speak further.”

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Act1 Scene6: Duncan: visit and said that the castle is nice a positive description of Inverness which is ironic as it could be his final resting place.

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“This castle hath a pleasant seat;”

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Act1 Scene7: Macbeth: Mac said that for killing Duncan they’d ga to hell.

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“We’d jump the life to come.”

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Act1 Scene7: Macbeth: Mac said they can’t kill Duncan cos there cousins and out of loyalty to family

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“I am his kingsman and his subject,”

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Act1 Scene7: Macbeth: he can’t kill Duncan because he is in his house and out of hospitality

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“as his host”

38
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Act1 Scene7: Macbeth: he can’t kill Duncan because he is a good man and a good king

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“Duncan
Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
So clear in his great office”

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Act1 Scene7: Macbeth: the only thing motivating Mac to kill Duncan is his ambition

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“Vaulting ambition”

40
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Act1 Scene7: Macbeth: mac has settled on not killing Duncan

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“We will proceed no further in this business:”

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Act1 Scene7: lady Macbeth: lady Macbeth is really trying to manipulate Mac she said is he afraid to take action and take what’s he wants

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“From this time
Such I account thy love. Art thou afraid
To be the same in thine own act and valour
As thou art in desire?”

42
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Act1 Scene7: lady Macbeth: she has resorted to name calling him a coward

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“Live a coward”

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Act1 Scene7: lady Macbeth: you were a man when you told me this idea where has that man gone

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“What beast was’t then
That made you break this enterprise to me
When you durst do it, then you were a man!”

44
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Act1 Scene7: lady Macbeth: gives a violent and shocking image of killing an innocent child. This conveys her ruthless and cruelty. She would do anything for Mac

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“dashed the brains out”

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Act1 Scene7: lady Macbeth: tells Mac to man up and that they won’t fail if they have courage she believes in there plan.

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“We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we’ll not fail.”

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Act1 Scene7: Macbeth: he is impressed with her plan as well as her bravery and courage.

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“undaunted mettle”

47
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Act1 Scene7: Macbeth: he is prepared to kill Duncan due to lady Macbeths manipulation

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“I am settled, and bend up
Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. “

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Act1 Scene7: Macbeth: is preparing himself to lie this also feeds into the them of impressions v reality.

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“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”

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