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Macbeth Quotes Flashcards

1
Q

“My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white”

A

Themes:
- Evil
- Manipulation

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2
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“Make thick my blood”

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Themes:
- Evil
- Manipulation

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3
Q

“Come thick night”

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Lady Macbeth.
Themes:
- Evil
- Manipulation
- Subversion of Nature
- Guilt
- Deception

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4
Q

” 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. “

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Lady Macbeth.
Themes:
- Evil
- Manipulation
- Gender Roles
- Subversion of Nature

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5
Q

“When shall we three meet again. In thunder, lightning, or in rain”

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Themes:
- Chaos
- Disorder

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6
Q

“For brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name”

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7
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“If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well if it were done quickly”

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8
Q

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair”

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The Witches.
Themes:
- Supernatural
- Subversion of Nature

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9
Q

“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”

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Macbeth
Themes:
- Subversion of Nature
- Guilt

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10
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“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”

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Themes:

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11
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“What’s done cannot be undone.”

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Themes:

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12
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“I am in blood stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as o’er”

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Themes:
Blood

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13
Q

“What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won”

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Themes

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14
Q

“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.”

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Macbeth.
Themes:
- Subversion of Nature
- Madness
- Guilt

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15
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“The Thane of Cawdor lives. Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?”

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16
Q

“I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness”

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Lady Macbeth (About Macbeth).
Themes:
- Gender Roles
- Ambition

17
Q

“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.”

A

Lady Macbeth.
Themes:
- Gender Roles
- Subversion of Nature

18
Q

“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under ‘t”

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Lady Macbeth.
Themes:
- Deception
- Good vs. Evil

19
Q

“Dispute it like a man. I shall so but I must also feel it as a man”

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Themes:
Masculinity

20
Q

“We will proceed no further in this business”

A
21
Q

“What beast was’t, then, that made you break this enterprise to? When you durst do it, then you were a man!”

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Lady Macbeth (to Macbeth).
Themes:
- Gender Roles

22
Q

“Screw your courage to the sticking-place and we’ll not fail!”

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Lady Macbeth.
Themes:
- Ambition

23
Q

“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”

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Macbeth
Themes:
- Deception
- Guilt

24
Q

“Sleep no more! … Glamis hath murder’d sleep … Macbeth shall sleep no more”

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Macbeth
Themes:
- Guilt
- Madness

25
Q

“A little water clears us of this deed”

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Lady Macbeth.
Themes:
- Guilt
- Deception

26
Q

“Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown”

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Macbeth (about Banquo)
Themes:
- Prophecy
- Kingship

27
Q

“full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!”

A

Macbeth.
Themes:
- Guilt
- Madness

28
Q

“Are you a man?”

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Lady Macbeth.
Themes:
- Gender Roles

29
Q

“It will have blood, they say, blood will have blood”

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Macbeth
Themes:
- Guilt
- Fate

30
Q

“This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues, was once thought honest”

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Malcom (about Macbeth)
Themes:
- Deception
- Kingship vs Tyranny

31
Q

“Let’s make us medicines of our great revenge, to cure this deadly grief.”

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Malcom (to Macduff)
Themes:
- Guilt
- Kingship

32
Q

“What’s done cannot be undone”

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Lady Macbeth.
Themes:
- Fate
- Guilt

33
Q

“Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.”

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Doctor (about Lady Macbeth)
Themes:
- Madness
- Subversion of nature

34
Q

“She should have died hereafter”

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Macbeth (about Lady Macbeth)
Themes:
- Fate
- Guilt

35
Q

“We’ll have thee, as our rarer monsters are, painted upon a pole, and underwrit, Here may you see the tyrant”

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Macduff (about Macbeth)
Themes:
- Good vs. Evil
- Guilt

36
Q

“Can the devil speak true?”

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Banquo

37
Q

“What you egg!”

A
38
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