Macbeth Quotes Flashcards
Macbeth’s new title
“ The thane of Cawdor lives : why do you dress me in borrowed robes? “
Apperance vs reality
Nature
Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t
Duncan’s horses
Tis said they eat each other
Macbeth to Banquo’s ghost
Never shake thy gory locks at me
Lady Macbeth ‘becoming evil’
Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty!
False
Appearance vs reality
False face must hide what false heart doth know
Lady M going crazy …
Will all great Neptune’s oceans wash clear this blood from my hand?
About Macbeth?
How does he feel his title hang loose about him. like a giants robe.
Macbeth to Lady Macbeth
equal
1
‘my dearest partner of greatness’
Macduff about Scotland
5
‘Bleed, bleed, poor country’
Macduff to Macbeth
final scene
7
‘turn, hell-hound, turn!’
Witches
first scene
9
‘when shall we three meet again in thunder , lightening, or in rain’
After Duncan’s death
new king?
12
‘go pronounce his present death, and with his title greet Macbeth’
Banquo to Macbeth after seeing the witches
2
‘I fear thou hast played most foully for it’
Macduff after he finds Duncan’s body
4
’ o horror, horror, horror! tongue nor heart/ cannot conceive nor name thee’
Macduff when he finds out his family are dead
6
‘He no children. All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?
Macduff to Malcolm after Macbeth’s death
8
‘Hail, king! For so thou art. Behold where stands
The usurper’s cursed head: The time is free’
witches to macbeth near start
10
‘All hail Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of glamis!’
witches at start about pilot
11
‘Here I have a pilot’s thumb, wrecked as homeward he did come.’
Duncan to Macbeth after battle
13
‘O valiant cousin! Worthy gentlemen!’
Macbeth after Duncan’s death to Macduff
14
‘Silver skin laced with golden blood’
Macbeth soliloquy decides not to kill duncan
15
‘This Duncan hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
so clear in his great office.’
