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”
Act 1 Scene 7 : Macbeth wants to kill Duncan
“With his surcease, success”
“Vaulting ambition” (must fulfil the prophecy)
Macbeth does not NEED to kill Duncan
“I have bought golden opinions”
“I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none”
Macbeth mentally convincing himself to kill Duncan
“Whilst I threat, he lives”
“Fatal vision”
Pictures Duncan’s murder, enticed and lured by this
“Dudgeon gouts of blood”
Violent, plagued thoughts of killing Duncan
Macbeth is predatory
“The wolf”
“It is a knell that summons thee to heaven or hell”
He does not care about judgement anymore, contrasts to previous Macbeth
“Fair is foul and foul is fair”
What seems good and trustworthy is probably NOT. What seems evil is actually GOOD.
The witches are foretelling the treachery of Macbeth.
Lady Macbeth Manipulating Macbeth
“When you durst do it, then you were a man”
“Be so much more the man”
“Live a coward”
Questions his masculinity, patronising, humiliating
Lady Macbeth corrupting Macbeth
“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t”
Lady Macbeth is very disillusioned
“Without content”
“Dwell in doubtful joy”
Both imply that nothing satisfies her and she isn’t completely happy
There is no point in dwelling on the past
“Things without all remedy should be without regard”
“What is done is done”
Ironic, she contradicts this later when she kills her self due to guilt
“And make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are”
Roles have reversed, Macbeth now acts like Lady Macbeth, similar to ‘be the serpant’
“Fly good Fleance, fly fly fly”
Banquet acts as a foil to Macbeth, would rather die a hero, unlike Macbeth
