Macbeth Quotes Flashcards
Scorpions -Macbeth A3S2
“O, full of scorpions in my mind, dear wife!”
- Metaphor explaining that his guilty conscience is attacking him.
- Simile saying he would rather deal with dangerous animals then banquos ghost
Captain describes Macbeth in scene 2
“Brave Macbeth”
-Macbeth has a great reputation at the start of the play
‘Sleep no…’
Macbeth A2S2
“Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep.”
‘As his host…’
Macbeth A1S7
“As his host, who should against his murderer shut the door”
‘Macbeth doth…’
Macbeth A2S2
“Macbeth doth murder sleep”
“When you…”
Lady Macbeth A1S7
“When you durst do it, then you were a man”
LMB is manipulating her husband by speaking of his manhood
Macbeth hallucinating
“Is this a dagger I see before me?” -Act 2 Scene 1
- soliloquie
- symbolises the impending murder
- lust and greed dragged him to commit regicide
Banquo about the witches
A3S1
“The weird woman promised”
“Amen”
Macbeth A2S2
.me a Beth can’t say amen because he has just committed a sin and betrayed god, therefore he cannot say the word
‘Fair is..’
Act1Scene1
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair”
- oxymoron
- Shakespeares message is that what is considered good is in facts bad and vise versa
Full Unsex me here quote
Act1scene5
“Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here”
Flower/serpent
Lady Macbeth A1S5
“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t”
Human kindness
Lady MB about MB, A1S5
“It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness”
Perfumes of Arabia quote
Lady MB A5S1
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”
‘If chance will…’
Macbeth A1S3
“If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.”
‘Screw your…’
During dinner
“Screw your courage to the sticking-place and we’ll not fail”
MB famous ambition quote
A1S7
“I have no spur, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself”
What does Malcom say after Duncan’s murder Act 2 Scene 3
“There’s daggers in mens smiles”
Witches: ‘by the pricking…’
“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes”
LMB going crazy (spot)
Act 5 Scene 1
“Out damned spot! Out, I say!”
‘Stats hide your…’
“Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires.”
Act1 Scene4
Can the devil
Macbeth
“Can the devil speak true?”
‘I heard the…’
LMB A2S2
“I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry.”
Captain to Duncan
‘Sword which…’
“Sword which smoked with bloody execution.”
Act 1 Scene 2
Lady Macbeth saying her hands are the same as Macbeths, Act 2 Scene 2
“My hands are of your colour but I shake to wear a heart so white.”
“Tyrant”
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‘I may pour..’
LMB A1S5
“I may pour my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valour of my tongue’”
“I would have plucked…”
LMB A1S7
“I would have plucked my nipples from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, has I so sworn.”
Hell hound - Macduff
“Turn, hell-hound, turn!”
‘A foolish thought…’
“A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight”
“Fruitless crown”
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‘A little…’
Lady MB
“A little water clears us of this deed”
Neptunes
Macbeth
“Will all great Neptunes ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”
