Macbeth Quotes (CONFLICT/RELATIONSHIP)

Question 1

Set at the beginning of the play where Macbeth hears the prophesy

Answer 1

-“If good, 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?” Macbeth A1 S3

Question 2

Set after Lady Macbeth hears of Macbeth’s prophesy via letter, Lady Macbeth wants to kill Duncan , she doesn’t think Macbeth will do it

Answer 2

• “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” Lady Macbeth A1 S5
• “too full o’th’milk of human kindness” Lady Macbeth A1 S5

Question 3

Set at the TP, Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to murder Duncan

Answer 3

• “When you durst do it then you were a man; / and, to be more than what you were you would / be so much more the man” Lady Macbeth A1 S7
• “False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” Macbeth A1 S7

Question 4

After Duncan’s murder, Lady Macbeth is annoyed that Macbeth feels so guilty

Answer 4

• “This is a sorry sight” Macbeth A2 S2
• “A foolish thought to say ‘a sorry sight” Lady Macbeth A2 S2
• “My hands are of your colour; but I shame / to wear a heart so white” Lady Macbeth A2 S2

Question 5

Set after Banquo’s murder, although Lady Macbeth wasn’t complicit in the murder she has to cover for him

Answer 5

-“Sit, worthy friends: my lord is often thus, / and hath been from his youth” Lady Macbeth A3 S4

Question 6

End of the play, Lady Macbeth commits suicide because of her guilt, upon hearing this, Macbeth is dismissive.

Answer 6

• “Out damned spot: out I say!” Lady Macbeth A5 S1
• “She should have died hereafter, there would have been time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow” Macbeth A5 S4