Macbeth quotes

Question 0

My noble partner
you greet with present grace and great prediction
of noble having and of royal hope …
Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear
your favors nor your hate

Answer 0

Banquo
Plot: Banquo wants to know what the witches have to say to him, he is dragged into the mystery
Character: Banquo is fearless, knows too much
Theme: manliness(not afraid), GCOB(noble partner w/ grace, royal)

Question 1

Fair is foul and foul is fair

hover through the fog and filthy air

Answer 1

The witches
Character: witches speak in riddles, not whole truth.
Plot: the whole play. What is good seems bad, what is bad seems good
Theme: what is real/reality, fog(darkness)

Question 2

This supernatural soliciting

cannot be ill, cannot be good if ill…

Answer 2

Macbeth
Plot: the prophecy spells doom and good fortune, seeds of murder are planted in MB’s head
Character: MB wants to be king BADLY
Themes: dreams/reality, manliness

Question 3

The Prince of Cumberland, that is a step

on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap…

Answer 3

Macbeth
Plot: realizes that Malcolm is a problem if MB wants to be king
Character: he is okay with the amount of murder needed
Theme: manliness(do what it takes), darkness(stars hide your fires)

Question 4

The Raven himself is hoarse

that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan…

Answer 4

Lady Macbeth
Plot: Lady MB will push to kill Duncan, she know the prophecy
Character: she is just as bad as her husband in terms of murder
Theme: darkness(come thick night), manliness(unsex me)

Question 5

If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well

It were done quickly. If th’ assassination…

Answer 5

Macbeth
Plot: wants to do it, but knows it’s not one and done
Character: MB is a general, thinking of all the outcomes
Theme: guilt

Question 6

Was the hope drunk
Wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since?
…

Answer 6

Lady Macbeth
Plot: goad MB to kill Duncan
Character: she knows how to manipulate MB
Themes: Manliness, manipulation

Question 7

Is this a dagger I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch…
It is a knell
that summons thee to heaven, or to hell

Answer 7

Macbeth
Plot: resolves to kill Duncan
Character: MB realizes he is okay with murder when given the opportunity
Theme: reality(no real dagger), blood(on handle)

Question 8

Methought I heard a voice cry ‘sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep’ …

Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor
Shall sleep no more: Macbeth shall sleep no more

Answer 8

Macbeth
Plot: He has killed Duncan, now is cursed for disrupting the GCoB
Character: MB now feels guilty for what he has done
Theme: madness, GCoB

Question 9

Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all
As the weird women promised, and I fear
Thou play’dst more foully for ‘t …

Answer 9

Banquo
Plot: He thinks something is up w/ Macbeth’s sudden fortune
Character: He wants to find out the truth. Also, macbeth knows he will have to keep killing
Theme: betrayal/suspicion, fate

Question 10

To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus-
our fears in Banquo stick deep…
there is none but he
whose being I do fear

Answer 10

Macbeth
Plot: knows he has to kill Banquo
Character: MB will do what he has to
Theme: ?

Question 11

We have scorched the snake, not killed it:

She’ll be close and be herself, whilst our poor malice…

Answer 11

Macbeth
Plot: the murder was not worth it, guilt
Character: MB and LMB have guilty dreams, cannot cope with what they have done
Theme: reality, death(better to be with the dead than on the torture of the mind lie), guilt(in the affliction of these terrible dreams)

Question 12

Blood hath been shed ere now, i’ th’ olden time,
Ere humane statute purged the gentle weal;…
that, when the brains were out, the man would die,
and there an end; but now they rise again

Answer 12

Macbeth
Plot: at gathering w/ rest of lords
Character: guilt manifests itself in visions
Theme:GCoB, guilt, unreality

Question 13

What man dare, I dare
Approach thou like the rugged Russian Bear,…
If trembling I inhabit then, protest me
the baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow!
Unreal mock’ry, hence

Answer 13

Macbeth
Plot: the banquet where Banquo’s ghost shows up
Character: Macbeth thinks he is brave, but the apparition terrifies him.
Theme: manliness(bravery), reality VS appearance(unreal mock’ry)

Question 14

It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood
Stones have been known to move and trees to speak…
the secret’st man of blood. What is the night?

Answer 14

Macbeth. Act 3
Plot: After the banquet, talking to Lady MB
Character: knows the weight of what he is responsible for
Theme: GCob

Question 15

…For mine own good
all causes shall give way. I am in blood
Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o’er

Answer 15

Macbeth
Plot: The climax of the play. He will now do whatever it takes.
Character: Macbeth changes from having guilt to being unabashed of the crime he has comitted
Theme: ambition(for mine own good)

Question 16

Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff!

Beware the Thane of Fife. Dismiss me: enough

Answer 16

First Apparition
Plot: first prophecy for the last part of the play. Sets up Macduff storyline
Character: ?
Theme: fate/destiny

Question 17

Be bloody, bold, and resolute! Laugh to scorn
the pow’r of man, for none of woman born
shall harm Macbeth

Answer 17

Second Apparition
Plot: second prophecy.
Character: makes MB think he is invincible
Theme: manliness(tells macbeth what he wants to hear), manipulation

Question 18

Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care…
Maceth shall never vanquished be until
Great Birnham Wood to high Dunsinane Hill
Shall come against him

Answer 18

Third Apparition
Plot: third prophecy
Character: makes MB think he is invincible
Theme: fate, manipulation

Question 19

Infected be the air whereon they ride
And damned all those that trust them! I did hear
The galloping of horse. Who was’t came by?

Answer 19

Macbeth
Plot: Lennox finds him after the prophecies
Character: MB doesn’t know where the witches went
Theme: reality vs appearance

Question 20

The castle of Macduff I will surprise
Sieze upon fife; five to th’ edge o’ the sword
His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls
that trace him in his line….

Answer 20

Macbeth
Plot: resolves to kill Macduff’s family to get Macduff back to Scotland
Character: Macbeth’s second horrible crime. Proves he will do what it takes.
Theme: ambition, betrayal

Question 21

Whither should I fly?
I have done no harm…
Do I put up that womanly defense,
To say I have done no harm? - What are these faces?

Answer 21

Lady Macduff
Plot: about to be killed by Macbeth’s goons
Character: She doesn’t know what is happening, is afraid
Theme: betrayal, ambition, manliness

Question 22

I am yet unknown to woman, never was forswornm
Scarcely have coveted what was mine own…
My first false speaking
was this upon myself. What I am truly,
Is thine and my poor country’s to command

Answer 22

Malcolm
Plot: testing Macduff’s loyalty, planning to overthrow Macbeth
Character: Malcolm is actually shrewd, wants to know who to trust
Theme: betrayal, manipulation(of Macduff), revenge(against MB)

Question 23

Out damned spot! Out, I say…
Hell is murky… A soldier and afeard?…
Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.

Answer 23

Lady Macbeth Act 5
Plot: she is sleepwalking, cannot rest with the guilt
Character: Lady Macbeth cannot cope with what she has done
Theme: guilt, GCoB(sleepwalking disrupts it), reality/appearance?, manliness

Question 24

And that which should accompany old age,
As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,
I must not look to have; but in their stead
Curses not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath…

Answer 24

Macbeth
Plot: waiting for the battle to start
Character: he realizes he is hopeless, has ruined his life, will never grow old peacefully
Themes: guilt, betrayal(no friends)

Question 25

Let every soldier hew him down a bough
And bear’t before him. Thereby shall we shadow
The numbers of our host, and make discovery
Err in report of us

Answer 25

Malcolm
Plot: will disguise the numbers, fulfills the prophecy against Macbeth
Character: malcolm is a shrewd commander, knows the importance of giving false information
Theme: reality/appearance(woods moving), manipulation(false info)

Question 26

I have almost forgot the taste of fears:
The time has been, my senses would have cooled…
I have supped full of horror
direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,
Cannot once start me

Answer 26

Macbeth
Plot: about to find out his wife has died
Character: knows he has done horrible things, but also doesn’t really care.
Theme: guilt, manliness(fears)

Question 27

Tomorrow, tomorrow, and tomorrow

Answer 27

Macbeth
Plot: knows his wife has died
Character: gives up on happiness, only living for power. Nihilism
Themes: fate/destiny(nature and meaning of life)

Question 28

Arm, arm, and out!
If this which he avouches does appear..
Ring the alarum bell! Blow wind, come wrack!
At least we’ll die with harness on our back.

Answer 28

Macbeth
Plot: going into battle against Malcolm
Character: MB is a warrior at heart, wants to die for something
Theme: BRAVERY, manhood(die in battle), reality/appearance(woods moving)

Question 29

I will not yield to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet…
Though Birnham Wood be come to Dunsinane,
And thou opposed, being of no woman born,
Yet I will try the last. Before my body
I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,
And damned be him that first cries “Hold, enough!”

Answer 29

Macbeth
Plot: final duel w/ Macduff, MB dies
Character: die heroically, for something he believes in
Theme: heroism, ambition, manliness(damned be him…)