Macbeth Quotes

Question 1

Quotes to positively describe Macbeth

Answer 1

“Valiant cousin! Worthy Gentleman!” (Act 1.2)
“O worthiest cousin” (act 1.4)
“My worthy Cawdor” (1.4)
“Noble Macbeth” (1.2)

Question 2

Clothes motif quotes

Answer 2

“Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?” (

Question 3

Lady Macbeth attacking Macbeth’s masculinity

Answer 3

“Coward” (act 1.7)
“Are you a man?” (3.4)
“What, quite unmanned in fally?” (3.4)

Question 4

“Fair is foul and foul is fair”

Answer 4

Alliteration
Act 1.1
Witches, connected to Macbeth

Question 5

“What can the devil speak true?”

Answer 5

Banquo shocked
1.3
Rhetorical question
Banquo understands the connection with the witches and evil

Question 6

“My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical”

Answer 6

Macbeth’s thoughts
Metaphor
1.3
Macbeth sacred of his own thoughts

Question 7

Quotes that show appearance and reality

Answer 7

“Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires” (1.4, rhyming couplet metaphor)
“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it” (1.5, simile, metaphor)
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know” (metaphor, 1.7)
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Question 8

Quotes that show ambition

Answer 8

“ I have no spur. To prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition” (1.7, metaphor)
“To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus” (3.1)

Question 9

Quotes to show the supernatural

Answer 9

“Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold” (3.4)
“Stones have been know to move and trees to speak” (3.4)
“Fair is foul and foul is fair” (1.1, witches, alliteration)

Question 10

Quotes that portray Macbeth as a tragic hero

Answer 10

“Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires” (1.4, metaphor, rhyming couplet)
“Full of scorpions is my mind” (3.2, metaphor)
“I’ll fight till. from my bones my flesh be hacked” (6.3)

Question 11

Quotes that show Lady Macbeth as pragmatic

Answer 11

“You must leave this” (3.2)

“A foolish thought to say a sorry sight” (2.2)

Question 12

Euphemism quotes

Answer 12

“I have done the deed” (2.2)

“Is he dispatched…but Banqous safe” (3.4)

Question 13

Words Macbeth and Lady Macbeth call each other, shows their love for each other (endearment)

Answer 13

“Gentle my lord”, “love”, “dear wife”, “dearest Chuck” (3.2)

Question 14

Sleep motif quotes

Answer 14

“Sleep in the affliction of these terrible dreams” (3.2)

“Sleep no more: Macbeth does murder sleep” (2.2)

Question 15

Metaphors

Answer 15

“My thought, who’s murther yet is but fantastical, shakes so my single state of man” (1.3)

Question 16

Quotes that show Macbeth as brave

Answer 16

“I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked” (5.3)

“Go, prick thy face and over-red thy fear, Thou lily-livered boy” (5.3)

Question 17

Quotes that show Macbeth’s depression

Answer 17

“Why do you keep alone, of sorriest fancies” (3.1)

Question 18

Quotes that show Macbeth’s regret

Answer 18

“Duncan is in his grave…he sleeps well…nothing can touch him further” (3.2, metaphor)
“Wake Duncan with thy knocking: I would thou couldst” (2.2, metaphor)
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