Macbeth Quotes

Question 1

Name the Quote relating to Ambition

Answer 1

“Vaulting ambition which o’verleaps itself and falls on the other “

Question 2

Name one quote relating to guilt

Hint : i heard a voice

Answer 2

“I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep’”

Question 3

Name the two quotes that talk of gender roles

Hint : worthy and cow_ _ _

Answer 3

“Worthy Cawdor! … all hail hereafter” to being called a “coward” by LM

Question 4

Name a quote regarding Violence and Guilt

Hint : i am in blood

Answer 4

“I am in blood. Stepped in so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious”

Question 5

Analysis for “Vaulting ambition which o’verleaps itself and falls on the other”

Answer 5

Technique : personification - Macbeth personified his ambition alike to a human force that can corrupt his formerly innocent mind.
- “fall” shows Macbeth’s awareness that his all-encompassing ambition in his hamartia destined to lead to to his mental and physical decline.
Technique 2 : Metaphor - Metaphorical portrayal of Macbeth’s “vaulting ambition” draws a parallel between him and a jockey who is to manage an untameable, almost animalistic force. This is self deceptive, implying that he can control this force.

Question 6

How to remember quote “vaulting ambition that o’erleaps itself and fall on the other”?

Answer 6

Personification : Human Force
Fall - awareness of his hamartia
Metaphor : Horse and Jockey

Question 7

Analysis for “I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep’ “.

Answer 7

Technique : Motif of sleep - This makes sleep synonymous to innocence. Lack of sleep = departure from innocence as he committed regicide.
- Went from an imperative command “stars hide your fires” but is now being mentally haunted by “cries”.
Technique 2 : Exclamative sentence - emphasises the enduring and irreversible nature of Macbeth’s loss of innocence. His disruption of the natural order through his wickedness has forever condemned his mind to the relentless torment of guilt.

Question 8

How to remember - “I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep”.

Answer 8

Motif of sleep : Sleep = innocence. Loss of sleep = loss of innocence.
- Compare “stars hide your fires” to “cry” - Imperatives to troubled mind.
Exclamative sentence : emphasises irreversible guilt