Macbeth Quotes Flashcards

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Witches show that They don’t care who wins

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“When the Hurly burly’s done, when the battle’s lost and won”

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First mention of Macbeth

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“There to meet with Macbeth”

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Good will turn evil

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‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair’

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Macbeth is called brave by most brave

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‘brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name’

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Shows how easily Macbeth went through the army

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‘Like Valour’s minion carv’d out his passage’

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Macbeth kills person in gruesome manner

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‘Till he unseam’d him from the nave to th’chaps And fixed his head upon our battlements’

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Macbeth and Banquo are seen as equals

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‘Dismay’d not this our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?’

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Use of sarcasm to show how brave Macbeth and Banquo are

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‘Yes, as sprrows, eagles, or the hare, the lion’

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Macbeth is reffered to as a God, Jesus’ death place

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‘Meant to bathe in reeking wounds or memorise another Golgotha’

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Described as the husband of the Goddess of war

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‘Bellona’s bridegroom’

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Macbeth is going to recieve his new title thane of cawdor

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‘Go pronounce his present death and with his former title greet Macbeth’

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Macbeth is called noble by the most noble

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‘What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won’

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