Macbeth Quotes Flashcards

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1
Q

Macbeth’s new title

A

“ The thane of Cawdor lives : why do you dress me in borrowed robes? “

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2
Q

Apperance vs reality

Nature

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Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t

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3
Q

Duncan’s horses

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Tis said they eat each other

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4
Q

Macbeth to Banquo’s ghost

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Never shake thy gory locks at me

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5
Q

Lady Macbeth ‘becoming evil’

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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!

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6
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False

Appearance vs reality

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False face must hide what false heart doth know

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7
Q

Lady M going crazy …

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Will all great Neptune’s oceans wash clear this blood from my hand?

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8
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About Macbeth?

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How does he feel his title hang loose about him. like a giants robe.

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9
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Macbeth to Lady Macbeth
equal
1

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‘my dearest partner of greatness’

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10
Q

Macduff about Scotland

5

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‘Bleed, bleed, poor country’

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11
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Macduff to Macbeth
final scene
7

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‘turn, hell-hound, turn!’

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12
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Witches
first scene
9

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‘when shall we three meet again in thunder , lightening, or in rain’

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13
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After Duncan’s death
new king?
12

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‘go pronounce his present death, and with his title greet Macbeth’

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14
Q

Banquo to Macbeth after seeing the witches

2

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‘I fear thou hast played most foully for it’

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15
Q

Macduff after he finds Duncan’s body

4

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’ o horror, horror, horror! tongue nor heart/ cannot conceive nor name thee’

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16
Q

Macduff when he finds out his family are dead

6

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‘He no children. All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?

17
Q

Macduff to Malcolm after Macbeth’s death

8

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‘Hail, king! For so thou art. Behold where stands

The usurper’s cursed head: The time is free’

18
Q

witches to macbeth near start

10

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‘All hail Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of glamis!’

19
Q

witches at start about pilot

11

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‘Here I have a pilot’s thumb, wrecked as homeward he did come.’

20
Q

Duncan to Macbeth after battle

13

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‘O valiant cousin! Worthy gentlemen!’

21
Q

Macbeth after Duncan’s death to Macduff

14

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‘Silver skin laced with golden blood’

22
Q

Macbeth soliloquy decides not to kill duncan

15

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‘This Duncan hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been

so clear in his great office.’