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Quote 1: Macbeth being a bitch (spurs and vaulting falling)

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“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, only vaulting ambition which O’ear leaps itself and falls on the other”

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Quote 2: witches on crack like ( fair is foul)

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“Fair is foul, foul is fair Hover through the fog and filthy air”

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Quote 3:lady Macbeth talking about hell and that gawd damned spot also murke

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When Lady Macbeth is sleep walking she says:
“Out damned spot”
“Hell is murky”

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Quote 4: edgelord lady b summoning sex and getting filled up

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“Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty”

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Quote 5: (insoluble tie)

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“And with a most insoluble tie forever knit”

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Quote 6: lady b talkin bout their pretend kid gum gum nipples

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“Pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums And dash’d the brains out had I so sworn to you Have done this”

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Quote 7: lady b talkin bout snakes flowers Adam and Eve shit

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“Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it”

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Quote 8: order of class

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“Sons,kinsmen, Thanes”

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Quote 9: epic Macbeth being realllyyy cool second account (chop chop)

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“Till he unseam’d him from the nave to the chops”

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Quote 10: Mac edge lord talking about fires and stars (plus his black + deep)

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Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires”

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Quote 11: Duncan talkin bout the traitor guy ironic cuz he can’t trust the new guy

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“He was a gentleman whom I built an absolute trust”

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Quote 12: ironic statement from king guy my worth

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“My worthy Cawdor”

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Quote 13:” u a man bro!? - lady b

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“Are you a man”

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Quote 14: prick my thumbs a dickhead comes

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“By pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes”

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Quote 15: sleep gets knit and ravelld care

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“Sleep that knits the ravell’d sleeve of care”

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Quote 16: sun + the state O’the world - Macbeth

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“I’gin to be weary of the sun And wish the state O’the world were now undone”

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Quote 17: witches prophecies

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“Lesser than Macbeth, and greater”
“Not so happy ,yet much happier”
“Thou shalt get kings , though than be none”

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Quote 18: letter bumble sucking

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In a letter telling his wife of his fortune he states “My dearest partner of greatness”

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Quote 19: nihilism speech

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“Out,out brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is no more: it is a tale told by an idiot , full of sound and fury. Signifying nothing.”

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Quote 20: Macbeth being a wimp cuz he girl died

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“She should have died hereafter”

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Quote 21: nihilism tomorrow

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“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow”

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Quote 22: banquos royal seeds

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“The seeds of Banquo king”

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Quote 23: Macbeth being mad about his sons not succeeding

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“No sons of mine succeeding”

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Quote 24: me angy about fruit crown

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“Placed a fruitless crown”

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Quote 25: (spot yet)
“Yet there’s a spot”
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Quote 26:
“To bed, to bed”
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Quote 27: lady Macbeth dissing Macbeth in her sleep
Lady Macbeth also says “A soldier and afeard”-while she’s sleep walking referring to Macbeth
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Quote 28: Macbeth being a bit unhinged about Duncan’s death and blood
“Who would thought the old man to, have so much blood in him”
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Quote 29: porter reference lady Macbeth
Lady Macbeth references the Porter when she says “There’s knocking at the gate” whilst she sleep walks
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Quote 30: what done nut
“What’s done cannot be undone”
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Quote 31: talking about how neptunes water can’t wash the nlood
“All great neptunes oceans”
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Quote 32: Macbeth wanting Duncan to die quickly shows his empathy / emotion
“If it were done when tis done then twere well. it were done quickly”
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Quote 33: Duncan being really awesome and angels loving him
“His virtues will plead like angels”
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Quote 34: white cum heart shame (lady b)
“My hands are as bloody as yours yet I shame to wear a heart so white”
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Quote 35: why should I the fool side?
“Why should I play the fool and fall on my side”
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Quote 36: minions
“Valours minion”
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Quote 37: Malcolm tyrant
“Tyrant whose sole rule blisters our tongues”
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Quote 38: Young siward tyrant
“Tyrant”
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Quote:Malcolm devil Macbeth
“Devilish”
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Quote 40: lady b being a bully
“Was the hope drunk whenin you dressed yourself hath it slept since”
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Quote 41:Lady b saying Macbeth was a man when he dared to commit murder
“When you durst do it then you were a man”
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Quote 42: Macbeth goes mental at banquet so lady b reprimands him
“Are you a man” “Sit” “Speak not” “Go at once”
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Quotes 43:Lady b being a smooth operator
“Wash this filthy witness from your hand” “I laid their daggers ready” “The doors are open” “Get on your night gown”
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Quote 44: the witches battles
“When the battles lost and won”
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Quote 45: witches arm + head
Armed head - Macbeth misinterprets this as he will behead his enemy
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Quote 46: Banquo cap foil
“Our captains Macbeth and banquo”
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Quote 47: banquo + Macbeth are described as this
“Noble”
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Quote 48: take me sword banquo
“Take thy sword”
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Quote 49: banquo has cursed thoughts
“Cursed thoughts”
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Quote 50: banquo is having sussy dreams
“I dreamt last night”
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Quote 51: Macbeth u cheater!
“I fear thou playdst most foully for’t”
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Quote 52: Macbeth thinking about killing banquo
“Wisdom that doth guide his valour”
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Quote 53: trust me bro Macbeth to banquo
“Cleave to my consent”
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Quote 54: Macduff is revealed when?
After Duncan’s death
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Quote 55: Macduff is sad
“Bleed bleed, poor country” “O’ Scotland Scotland!”
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Quote 56: Macduff to macb when he doesn’t wanna fight
“Coward”
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Quote 57: witches deciding where to meet:
“In thunder, lightning or in rain”
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Quote 58: predictions but dramatic irony
“Cawdor” “king hereafter”
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Quote 59: Macbeth is evil and wants to yield
“Why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair”
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Quote 60: witches have beards so are bad women
“You should be women but your beards forbid me from interpreting you so”
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Quote 61: Macbeth smoked a bad blunt
“A dagger of the mind “
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Quote 62: Macbeth confesses at banquet
“Thou canst not say I did it” “Shake thy gory locks”
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Quote 63:Macbeth becomes dependent on witches
“I am but to know, by the worst means the worst”
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Quote 64: Macbeth thinking he’s in god mode
“None of women born shall harm Macbeth”
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Quote 65: Malcolm saying he’s gonna Do bad stuff as king
“Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell” “Confound all unity into hell”

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