Macbeth quotes Flashcards
1
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Ambition and power
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- Oh full of scorpions is my mind - Macbeth
- This dead butcher and fiend-like a queen- Malcolm
- When you durst do it, then you were a man- Lady M
- blood thirsty tyrant - Macbeth
- “Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
- vaulting ambition
2
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guilt
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- Will all great Neptunes wash this blood clean from my hand? - Lady M
- I could not say Amen… Amen stuck in my throat - Macbeth
- A little water clears us of this deed - Lady M
- “To know my deed, ’twere best not know myself.”
- Out damm spot - lady M
- “What, will these hands ne’er be clean?”- Lady M
3
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Deception
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- Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t - Lady M
- There daggers in men’s smiles
- Hide their fires
4
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Betrayal
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- Thou has it now and I fear thou played most fully for it - Banqoue
- Most sacrilegious murder - Macduff
- He was a gentleman on whom I built absolute trust ( on thane of Cawdor, executed for treason) - Duncan
5
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supernatural
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- Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here - Lady M
- Fair is foul and foul is fair
- Infected minds
- can the devil speak true
- Th’inhabitants of the earth
- something wicked this way comes
6
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Fate
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- The than of Cawdor lives, why do you dress me in burrowed robes
- ” It’s a tall told by an Idiot”- Macbeth
- Life’s but a walking shadow - Macbeth
- Hail Macbeth - witches
- If chance will have me, king, why chance may crown me”
- Macbeth woill sleep insight of faith