Macbeth Quotes Flashcards
Act 1 Scenes 1-4 : Macbeth is brave, honourable
“O worthiest cousin”
“Like valour’s minion”
“Noble Macbeth”
Act 1 Scenes 1-4 : Macbeth begins to think about being king
“Let not light see my black and deep desires”
Act 1 Scene 5 : Lady Macbeth is cruel and wants to become evil
“unsex me here, and fil me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty”
“Take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers”
Lady Macbeth wants to be engulfed in darkness, have her actions hidden from God
“Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark”
Lady Macbeth turns her motherly instincts into poison
“Take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers”
“Great Glamis, worthy Cawdor”
Lady Macbeth looks at Macbeth and sees him for his power
“My dearest partner of greatness”
Macbeth loves LM for being his wife, whereas she sees him for his power
“Look like th’innocent flower but be the serpent uder’t”
Act innocent, but commit the murder and be evil
“We will speak further – Only look up clear”
Lady Macbeth cuts Macbeth off, suggesting dominance
“Fair and noble hostess”
“Honoured Hostess”
“Conduct me to mine host: we love him highly”
Duncan loves and respects both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth.
Shows element of disgrace and IRONY because LM and Macbeth want to kill this innocent, great man
Macbeth dehumanises Duncan to make the murder easier
“when tis’ done”
“‘twere well”
“with his surcease”
“If it were done when tis’ done”
Macbeth unsure whether to kill Duncan, not fully committed
“With his surcease, success”
His death would be a success
Fears consequences of killing Duncan
“That but this blow might be the be-all and the end-all”
“We still have judgement”
“Bloody instructions, which being taught, return to plague th’inventor”
“This even-handed justice comments th’ingredience of our poisoned chalice to our own lips”
Macbeth fears karma, and the moral compass, as well as punishment from God
Macbeth does not want to kill Duncan
“His virtues will plead like angels”
“I am his Kinsman”
“as his host”
“And pity, like a newborn babe”
“We will proceed no longer in this business”
