Macbeth Quotes

Question 1

“Unsex…” lady Macbeth act 1

Answer 1

me here”

Question 2

“Come to my woman’s breasts…” lady Macbeth act 1

Answer 2

and take my milk for gall”

Question 3

“Was the hope drunk…” lady Macbeth act 1

Answer 3

wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since? and wakes it now to look so green and pale”

Question 4

“I dare do all that may…” Macbeth act 1

Answer 4

become a man who dares do more is none”

Question 5

“A foolish…” lady Macbeth act 2

Answer 5

thought to say a sorry sight”

Question 6

“Fair is…” The witches act 1

Answer 6

Foul and foul is fair, hover through the fog and filthy air”

Question 7

“There’s no art to…” Duncan act 1

Answer 7

“There’s no art to find the minds construction in the face”

Question 8

“Look like the innocent…” lady Macbeth act 1

Answer 8

“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it”

Question 9

“Stars hide your…” Macbeth act 1

Answer 9

“Stars hide your fires let not light see my black and deep desires”

Question 10

“Come thick night…” lady Macbeth act 1

Answer 10

“Come thick night and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell”

Question 11

“I have no spur to…” Macbeth act 1

Answer 11

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

Question 12

“So fair and…” Macbeth act 1

Answer 12

“So fair and foul a day I have not seen”

Question 13

“And live a…” lady Macbeth act 1

Answer 13

“And live a coward in thine own esteem…like the poor cat I’th’ adage?”

Question 14

If it were done when…” macbeth act 1

Answer 14

“If it were done when tis then twere well it were done quickly”

Question 15

“We still have judgement there…” macbeth act 1

Answer 15

“We still have judgment there that we but teach bloody instructions which being taught return to plague the inventor”

Question 16

“He’s here in…” macbeth act 1

Answer 16

“He’s here in double trust”

Question 17

“Is this a dagger which…” macbeth act 2

Answer 17

“Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand”
.presenting fear
.rhetorical question
.”dagger” symbol of dark intentions + product of his disturbed mind
.so overwhelmed with fear + guilt- starting to go insane
.dagger points towards his hand as if asking him to use it
.in Jacobean England hallucinations would have been the works of demons- witches made him hallucinate to kill Duncan

Question 18

“Macbeth shall…” macbeth act 2

Answer 18

“Macbeth shall sleep no more”
.determiner “no”- macbeth knows his sleep will forever be tortured
.sleep was a symbol of inner peace and good moral people sleep soundly- evil people don’t, don’t deserve peace that comes with it- macbeth has now become one of these people

Question 19

“The service and…” macbeth act 1

Answer 19

“The service and loyalty i owe in doing it pays itself”
.nouns “service” and “loyalty” portray macbeth as a respectable person
.telling Duncan not to worry about rewarding him- believes what he has done is enough
.ironic- act of regicide juxtaposes this mindset

Question 20

“I have begun to plant thee…” Duncan act 1

Answer 20

“I have begun to plant thee and will labour to make thee full of growing”
.wants to be like a father to macbeth
.verb “labour” will do everything in his power to take care of and nurture macbeth, like a plant needs nurturing
.emphasises how much he trusts macbeth- his hamartia is being to trusting
.macbeth eventually plans to betray Duncan through regicide
.warning by Shakespeare to be careful who we trust