Macbeth Quotes Flashcards
“Unsex…” lady Macbeth act 1
me here”
“Come to my woman’s breasts…” lady Macbeth act 1
and take my milk for gall”
“Was the hope drunk…” lady Macbeth act 1
wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since? and wakes it now to look so green and pale”
“I dare do all that may…” Macbeth act 1
become a man who dares do more is none”
“A foolish…” lady Macbeth act 2
thought to say a sorry sight”
“Fair is…” The witches act 1
Foul and foul is fair, hover through the fog and filthy air”
“There’s no art to…” Duncan act 1
“There’s no art to find the minds construction in the face”
“Look like the innocent…” lady Macbeth act 1
“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it”
“Stars hide your…” Macbeth act 1
“Stars hide your fires let not light see my black and deep desires”
“Come thick night…” lady Macbeth act 1
“Come thick night and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell”
“I have no spur to…” Macbeth act 1
“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”
“So fair and…” Macbeth act 1
“So fair and foul a day I have not seen”
“And live a…” lady Macbeth act 1
“And live a coward in thine own esteem…like the poor cat I’th’ adage?”
If it were done when…” macbeth act 1
“If it were done when tis then twere well it were done quickly”
“We still have judgement there…” macbeth act 1
“We still have judgment there that we but teach bloody instructions which being taught return to plague the inventor”
“He’s here in…” macbeth act 1
“He’s here in double trust”
“Is this a dagger which…” macbeth act 2
“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
“Macbeth shall…” macbeth act 2
“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
“The service and…” macbeth act 1
“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
“I have begun to plant thee…” Duncan act 1
“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
