Macbeth quotes Flashcards

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5 quotes about the supernatural

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double, double toil and trouble
in thunder, lightning or in rain
when the battle’s lost and won
unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles
tis unnatural even like the deed that’s done

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who and when: unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles

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macbeth

a1 s5

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who and when: tis unnatural even like the deed that’s done

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the old man

a2 s4

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Quote about the ocean

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Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.

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A2 S4 quotes

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LM: My hands are of your color, but I shame To wear a heart so white.
A little water clears us of this deed
To know my deed, ’twere best not know myself.

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supernatural quotes (4)

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false face must hide what the false heart doth know
why do you dress me in borrowed robes?
there’s daggers in men’s smiles
“The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray ‘s in deepest consequence.

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who and when: there’s daggers in men’s smiles?

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Donalbain

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quotes on kingship (4)

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he was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust
I have begun to plant thee and will labour to make thee full of growing
and yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp
not in legions of horrid hell can come a devil more damned in evils to top macbeth

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masculinity quotes (4)

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let grief convert to anger
unsex me here
you should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret you so
I must also feel it like a man

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lm to m about his ambition

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art not without ambition but without the illness should attend it

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lady macduff on being good

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But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly.

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Macbeth to his dagger

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I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.

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compare lady macbeth to the witches

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unsex me here
come to my women’s breasts
finger of a birth-strangled babe

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