Macbeth- Quotes Flashcards
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know”
Act 1 Scene 7
Macbeth
Duality
“[reads] They met me in the day of success;”
Act 1 Scene 5
Lady Macbeth
Power/gothic female
“Look like th’ innocent flower but be the serpent under’t.”
Act 1 Scene 5
Lady Macbeth
Power/gothic contradiction
“Fair is foul and foul is fair”
“So foul and fair a day I have not seen”
Act 1 Scene 1/ Act 1 Scene 3
Witches/Macbeth
Binary opposites/Power
“Open Ground. Thunder and lightening.”
Act 1 Scene 1
Stage directions
Setting/Pathetic fallacy
“When the hurly-burly’s done”
Act 1 Scene 1
Witch 2
Power
“You should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so”
Act 1 Scene 3
Banquo
The Grotesque
“Till he unseam’d him from the nave to the chops,
And fix’d his head upon our battlements.”
Act 1, scene 2
Sergeant
Savagery and barbarism
Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great;
Act 1, scene 5
Lady Macbeth
“Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?”
Act 2, scene 1
Macbeth
Supernatural/psychological
