macbeth quotes Flashcards
Macbeth’s paranoia: “To be ____ is _______ / But to be ______ ____. - Our fears in _____ _____ ____” Act 3 scene 1
“To be thus is nothing / But to be safely thus. - Our fears in Banquo stick deep” Act 3 Scene 1
Macbeth’s paranoia: “They [the witches] hail’d him [Banquo] to a ____ of _____ / Upon my ____ they placed _ _________ _____ / And put a ______ _______ in my ____” Act 3 Scene 1
“They [the witches] hail’d him [Banquo] to a line of kings / Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown / And put a barren sceptre in my gripe” Act 3 Scene 1
Macbeth’s paranoia: “We have ______‘_ ___ ______ [Banquo], not ____‘_ it [Fleance]” Act 3 scene 2
Mazbeth’s paranoia: “We have scotch’d the snake [Banquo], not kill’d it [Fleance]” Act 3 scene 2
Macbeth’s paranoia: “O, ____ __ _________ __ __ ____, dear wife!” Act 3 scene 2
“O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!” Act 3 scene 2
Macbeth’s paranoia: “It will have _____; they say, _____ ____ ____ _____” Act 3 scene 4
“It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood” Act 3 scene 4
Macbeth’s paranoia: “now I am _____‘, _____‘, ________, bound in / To _____ doubts and ______.” Act 3, scene 4
“now I am cabin’d, cribb’d, confined, bound in / To saucy doubts and fears.” Act 3, scene 4
Macbeth’s paranoia: “there ___ _____ _______ ____ [Banquo]; the ____ that’s ____ [Fleance] / Hath nature that in ____ will _____ _____” Act 3 scene 4
“there the grown serpent lies [Banquo]; the worm that’s fled [Fleance] / Hath nature that in time will venom breed” Act 3 scene 4
Macbeth as a noble/brave warrior: “_______‘_ __________” (Ross) Act 1 scene 2
“Bellona’s bridegroom” (Ross) Act 1 scene 2
Macbeth as a noble/brave warrior: “_____ _______ - well he ________ that name - / Disdaining _______, with his ________‘_ _____ / smoked with ______ _________” (Sergeant) Act 1 scene 2
“Brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name - / Disdaining fortune, with his brandish’d steel / smoked with bloody execution” (Sergeant) Act 1 scene 2
Macbeth as a noble/brave warrior: “As ________ ______, or the ____ the ____.” (Sergeant) Act 1 scene 2
“As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.” Sergeant, Act 1 scene 2
Macbeth as a noble/brave warrior: “They have _____ __ to a _____; I cannot ___, / But, ____-____, I must _____ the course. What’s he / That was ___ ____ of _____? Such a ___ am I to ____, or ____.” Macbeth, Act 5, scene 6
“They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly, / But, bear-like, I must fight the course. What’s he / That was not born of woman? Such a one am I to fear, or none.” Macbeth, Act 5, scene 6
Macbeth as a noble/brave warrior: “Why should I ____ ___ _____ ____, and die on ____ ___ _____? whiles I see _____, the ______ do ______ ____ ____.” Macbeth, Act 5 scene 8
“Why should I play the Roman fool, and die on mine own sword? whiles I see lives, the gashes do better upon them.” Macbeth, Act 5 scene 8
Macbeth’s fear of killing the king/feelings of conscience: “Why do I yield to that ___________ whose ______ _____ doth _____ __ ____ and ____ __ ______ ____ _____ at my ribs, against the use of ______?” Act 1, scene 3
“Why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs, against the use of nature?” Act 1, scene 3
Macbeth’s fear of killing the king/feelings of conscience: “My thought, whose ______ yet is but ___________ shakes so __ ______ ____ __ ___ that _______ is _______‘_ in surmise” Act 1 scene 3
“My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical shakes so my single state of man that function is smother’d in surmise” Act 1 scene 3
Macbeth’s fear of killing the king/feelings of conscience: “we but teach ______ ____________, which, being taught, ______ __ ______ ___ _________” Act 1 scene 7
“we but teach bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor” Act 1 scene 7
Macbeth’s fear of killing the king/feelings of conscience: “Prithee, peace / I ____ __ ___ ____ ___ _______ _ ___.” Act 1 scene 7 (directed to LM)
“Prithee, peace / I dare do all that may become a man.” Act 1 scene 7 (directed to LM)
Macbeth’s cruelty: “safe in a ______ he [Banquo] bides, with ______ ________ ______ __ ___ ____” (Murderer, Act 3 scene 4)
“safe in a ditch he [Banquo} bides, with twenty trenches gashes on his head” (Murderer, Act 3 scene 4)
Macbeth’s cruelty: “give to the ____ _’ the _____ his ____, his _____, and all __________ _____ That trace him __ ___ ____.” (Macbeth, Act 4, scene 1)
“give to the edge o’ the sword his wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls That trace him in his line.” (Macbeth, Act 4, scene 1)
Macbeth’s cruelty: “I have ____‘_ ____ ____ _______; direness, familiar to my ____________ ________ cannot once _____ me.” (Act 4 scene 5)
“I have supp’d full with horrors; direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts cannot once start me.” (Act 4 scene 5)
Macbeth’s ambition: “____, you _________ speakers, tell me ____” (Act 1, scene 3, to witches probably)
“stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more” (Act 1, scene 3, to witches probably)
Macbeth’s ambition: “The Prince of Cumberland! that is a ____ __ which I must ____ ____, or else _‘______, for in __ ___ it lies. _____, hide ____ _____; let not _____ see my _____ ___ ____ _______” (Act 1, scene 4)
“The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap, for in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires” (Act 1, scene 4)
Macbeth’s ambition: “I have no ____ / To _____ the side of my ______, but only / ________ ________, which o’erleaps itself / And _____ on the _____.” (Act 1 scene 7)
“I have no spur / To prick the side of my intent, but only / Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself / And falls on the other.” (Act 1 scene 7)
LM’s manipulation of M: “Hie thee hither / That I may ____ __ _______ in _____ ___” (LM, Act 1 scene 5)
” Hie thee hither / That I may pour my spirits in thine ear” (LM, Act 1 scene 5)
LM’s manipulation of M: “Wouldst thou have ____ / which thou ______‘__ the ________ of ___ / And live a ______ in _____ own ______” (Act 1 scene 7)
“Wouldst thou have that / which thou esteem’st the ornament of life / And live a coward in thine own esteem” (Act 1 scene 7)
LM’s manipulation of M: “When you _____ __ __, then you ____ _ ___” (Act 1 scene 7)
“When you durst do it, then you were a man” (Act 1 scene 7)
LM’s manipulation of M: “I would, while it was _______ in my ____ / Have _____‘_ my ______ from his ________ ____ / And ____‘_ the ______ ___, had I so sworn as ___ / Have ____ to this.” (Act 1 scene 7)
“I would, while it was smiling in my face / Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums / And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you / Have done to this.” (Act 1 scene 7)
LM’s belief that M is weak: “yet do I fear thy ______ / It is ___ ____ _’ the ____ of ______ ________ / To _____ the nearest way” (Act 1 scene 5)
“yet do I fear thy nature / It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way” (Act 1 scene 5)
LM’s belief that M is weak: “thou wouldst be _____; / Art not without ________, but _______ / The _______ should ______ __” (Act 1 scene 4)
“thou wouldst be great; / Art not without ambition, but without / The illness should attend it” (Act 1 scene 4)
LM’s belief that M is weak: “______ of _______!” (Act 2 scene 2)
“Infirm of purpose!” (Act 2 scene 2)
LM’s belief that M is weak: “My hands are __ ____ ______; but I _____ / To ____ _ _____ __ ____.” (Act 2 scene 2)
“My hands are of your colour; but I shame / To wear a heart so white.” (Act 2 scene 2)
LM’s ambition: “fill me ____ the _____ to the ___ ___-____ / Of _____ ______! make thick my _____ / Stop up the ______ and _______ to _______” (Act 1 scene 5)
“fill me from the crown to the toe top-full / Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood / Stop up the access and passage to remorse” (Act 1 scene 5)
LM’s ambition: “Come to my _____‘_ _______ / And take my ____ ___ ____” (Act 1 scene 5)
“Come to my woman’s breasts / And take my milk for gall” (Act 1 scene 5)
LM’s ambition: “Come, you spirits / That ____ on ______ ________, _____ me here” (Act 1 scene 5)
“Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here” (Act 1 scene 5)
LM’s ambition: “You shall ___ / This night’s _____ ________ into my ________ / Which shall to ___ our ______ ___ _____ to come / Give solely _________ ____ and _________.” (Act 1 scene 4)
“You shall put / This night’s great business into my dispatch / Which shall to all our nights and days to come / Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.” (Act 1 scene 4)
LM’s madness: “It is an __________ ______ with her, to seem thus _______ ___ _____” (Gentlewoman, Act 5 scene 1)
“It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands” (Gentlewoman, Act 5 scene 1)
LM’s madness: “Out, ______ ____! out, I say! – ____ __ _____!” (Act 5 scene 1)
“Out, damned spot! out, I say! – Hell is murky!” (Act 5 scene 1)
LM’s madness: “What, will these _____ __‘__ __ _____?” (Act 5 scene 1)
“What, will these hands ne’er be clean?” (Act 5 scene 1)
LM’s madness: “More needs she ___ ______ than ___ _________.” (Doctor, act 5 scene 1)
“More needs she the divine than the physician.” (Doctor, act 5 scene 1)
LM’s madness: “If thou couldst, doctor, ____ / The _____ of my ____, find her _______ / And _____ it to a _____ ___ ________ ______” (Act 5 scene 3)
“If thou couldst, doctor, cast / The water of my land, find her disease / And purge it to a sound and pristine health” (Act 5 scene 3)
The supernatural:
