Macbeth Quotes Flashcards
“My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white”
Themes:
- Evil
- Manipulation
“Make thick my blood”
Themes:
- Evil
- Manipulation
“Come thick night”
Lady Macbeth.
Themes:
- Evil
- Manipulation
- Subversion of Nature
- Guilt
- Deception
” I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn As you have done to this. “
Lady Macbeth.
Themes:
- Evil
- Manipulation
- Gender Roles
- Subversion of Nature
“When shall we three meet again. In thunder, lightning, or in rain”
Themes:
- Chaos
- Disorder
“For brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name”
“If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well if it were done quickly”
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair”
The Witches.
Themes:
- Supernatural
- Subversion of Nature
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”
Macbeth
Themes:
- Subversion of Nature
- Guilt
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”
Themes:
“What’s done cannot be undone.”
Themes:
“I am in blood stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as o’er”
Themes:
Blood
“What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won”
Themes
“Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.”
Macbeth.
Themes:
- Subversion of Nature
- Madness
- Guilt
“The Thane of Cawdor lives. Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?”
“I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness”
Lady Macbeth (About Macbeth).
Themes:
- Gender Roles
- Ambition
“Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direct cruelty; make thick my blood.”
Lady Macbeth.
Themes:
- Gender Roles
- Subversion of Nature
“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under ‘t”
Lady Macbeth.
Themes:
- Deception
- Good vs. Evil
“Dispute it like a man. I shall so but I must also feel it as a man”
Themes:
Masculinity
“We will proceed no further in this business”
“What beast was’t, then, that made you break this enterprise to? When you durst do it, then you were a man!”
Lady Macbeth (to Macbeth).
Themes:
- Gender Roles
“Screw your courage to the sticking-place and we’ll not fail!”
Lady Macbeth.
Themes:
- Ambition
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”
Macbeth
Themes:
- Deception
- Guilt
“Sleep no more! … Glamis hath murder’d sleep … Macbeth shall sleep no more”
Macbeth
Themes:
- Guilt
- Madness
