Macbeth quotes Flashcards
Quotes about the supernatural
‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’ - Act 1 Scene 1
‘My seated heart knock at my ribs’ - Act 1 Scene 3 - Soliloquy [Aside]
- Macbeth hears prophecy begins to get ambitious thoughts which both frighten and excite him
‘The instruments of darkness tell us truths,/ Win us
with honest trifles, to betray’s In deepest consequence
‘Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires’ Soliloquy [Aside]
- Act 1 Scene 4 - Has ambitious thoughts by knows he cannot let heaven see this as it is sin against God and divine right of kings
‘Unsex me here and fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty’ - LM calls on the supernatural to make her more masculine to commit her evil crimes
Soliloquy
Act 1 Scene 5
Merciful powers, restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature gives way to in repose.” - Banquo
Act 2 Scene 1
Quotes about loyalty and violence
Sword smoked with bloody execution
he unseamed him from the nave to the chops
- Act 1 Scene 2
“What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.” - Duncan praises Macbeth’s bravery and success in battle in Act 1, Scene 2 - Dramatic irony - macbeth goes on to betray duncan and commit regicide
LOYALTY
Macduff, this noble passion,
Child of integrity, hath from my soul
Wiped the black scruples, reconciled my thoughts
Malcom is praising Macduff for his loyalty and honesty
Act 4 Scene 3
Quotes about ambition
Look like th’ innocent flower but be the serpent under’t
Act 1 Scene 5
‘Unsex me here and fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty’ - LM calls on the supernatural to make her more masculine to commit her evil crimes - desperiration - Act 1 Scene 5
Soliloquy
‘My seated heart knock at my ribs’ - Act 1 Scene 3 - Macbeth hears prophecy begins to get ambitious thoughts which both frighten and excite him
Soliloquy
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee … And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood - Act 2 Scene 1
Soliloquy
imagery
dudgeon - handle - however uses this word instead of handle to add to the already dark and doomed atmosphere - ‘D’ sound
guttural sound - “gouts” - harsh/unpleasant feeling-possibly unnatural
Merciful powers, restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature gives way to in repose.” Act 2 Scene 1 - Banquo
Quotes about betrayal
‘Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires’ - Act 1 Scene 4 - Has ambitious thoughts by knows he cannot let heaven see this as it is sin against God and divine right of kings
biblical allusion - black and deep - give imagery of hell/sinful/unspeakable/originating from hell desires/thoughts
Soliloquy
‘The instruments of darkness tell us truths,/ Win us
with honest trifles, to betray’s In deepest consequence
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee … And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood - Act 2 Scene 1
Soliloquy
Horror, Horror, Horror - Act 2 Scene 3
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
The Lord’s anointed temple, and stole thence
The life o’ th’ building! = translated … A blasphemous murder has broken open God’s temple and stolen the life from it.
‘My seated heart knock at my ribs’ - Act 1 Scene 3 - Macbeth hears prophecy begins to get ambitious thoughts which both frighten and excite him
Soliloquy
‘The instruments of darkness tell us truths,/ Win us
with honest trifles, to betray’s In deepest consequence - Witches betray macbeth
Donalbain says ‘there’s daggers in men’s smiles: act 2 scene 3
Duncan “There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face” act 1 scene 4
I fear thou play’d most foully for it - ACT 3 Scene 1
Merciful powers, restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature gives way to in repose.” - Act 2 Scene 1
Consequences of betrayal
Out damned spot; Out I say
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand
Act 5 Scene 1
Soliloquy
O full of scorpions is my mind (Act 3 scene 2)
Will all Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hands (Act 2 scene 2 MACBETH)
Soliloquy
Quotes on Masculinity
Unsex me here and fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty
Soliloquy
Are you a man?
Quotes on control
Unsex me here and fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty
Soliloquy
Look like th’ innocent flower but be the serpent under’t
Act 1 Scene 5
Are you a man?
Give me the daggers?
Quotes on guilt
Macbeth does murder sleep - Act 2 Scene 2
Will all Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hands’ Act 2 Scene 2 soliloq
A little water clears us of this deed - Act 2 Scene 2
O full of scorpians is my mind -Act 3 Scene 2
‘Never shake thy gory locks at me’ Act 3 Scene 4
Out damned spot; out I say
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand
Act 5 Scene 1
I am in blood / Stepped in so far, - Act 4 Scene 1
Quotes on duality, appearance of reality
Fair is foul and foul is fair
Things are not as they seem
Look like th’ innocent flower but be the serpent under’t
Act 1 Scene 5
Donalbain says ‘there’s daggers in men’s smiles: Act 2 scene 3
Duncan “There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face” act 1 scene4
Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,
Yet grace must still look so.
Act 4 Scene 3 - duality/deceptive and misleading outward appearances/nature of appearances
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues, was once thought honest.
Act 4 Scene 3 - Talks about decietful macbeth and his misleading as a person
Quotes about duncan
‘This castle hath a pleasant seats the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses
Duncan “There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face” act 1 scene4
Signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine on all who deserves - Act 1 scene 4
‘Silver skin lac’d with his golden blood’
Emphasises his divinity and suggests he is valuable or precious.
Act 2 Scene 3
Borne his faculties so meek’, ‘naked new-born babe’
Act 1 Scene 7
Macbeth is talking about Duncan Shows Duncan’s modesty as a king, and the image of a new-born baby suggests purity and innocence
Quotes about Macbeth as king
Not in the legions of horrid hell can come a devil in more damned evils to top Macbeth”
Bleed, bleed, poor country
Act 4 Scene 3
I think our country sinks beneath the yoke.
It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash
Is added to her wounds.
Act 4 Scene 3 - Malcom is worrried about Scotland currently with Macbeth as king
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues, was once thought honest.
Act 4 Scene 3 - Talks about decietful macbeth and his misleading as a person
Quotes about revenge
Dead butcher and his fiend-like queen - Malcom Act 5 Scene 8
Turn hell-hound turn’ Act 5 scene 7
All my pretty ones? Act 4 Scene 3
Macbeth giving up
“Life’s but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage … a tale told by an idiot
Soliloquy
Context
Great chain of being (murder, witches and LM all disrupted the great chain of Being)
Regicide
Sin
Witch Hunts (Shakespeare includes witchies in order to be contentious and provocate his audience)
Patriarchal Society - a system where women were see as an extension of her husband - men were expected to behave in a certain way - defend the country
Biblical Allusion - Being transgressive against religious norms
Lady Macbeth is telling Macbeth to be deceptive, to be devil-like and duplicitous - synonymous to when Eve persuaded Adam to eat the fruit
Jacobean would be shocked as they would have been conservative and would have christian values (a strong moral of right and wrong)
