Macbeth quotes for characters or motifs Flashcards
How is Macbeth is described in Act 1 Scene 2?
‘Brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name’ Captain
‘What he (Thane of Cawdor) hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.’ Duncan
How is fair and foul motif shown in Act 1?
‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air’ Witches
‘so fair and foul a day I have not seen’ Macbeth
How is Macbeth is shown as weak by Lady Macbeth?
‘Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness’ Act 1 Scene 5
‘When you durst do it, then you were a man’ Act 1 Scene 7
How does Lady Macbeth lose her femininity in Act 1 Scene 5?
‘Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here’
‘Come to my woman’s breasts And take my milk for gall,’
How is Macbeth shown as turning evil in Act 2 Scene 1?
‘Art thou but A dagger of the mind’
‘Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain’d sleep’
How is Macbeth shown as weakening in Act 2 Scene 2?
‘Glamis doth murder sleep therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more’
‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?’
How does Lady Macbeth react to blood at the start of the play?
‘Make thick my blood’ Act 1 Scene 5
‘A little water clears us of this deed’ Act 2 Scene 2
How is nature shown as murdered in Act 2?
‘Some say the Earth Was feverous and did shake’ Lennox, Act 2 Scene 3
‘And Duncan’s horses…Turn’d wild in nature’ Ross, Act 2 Scene 4
How is Macbeth shown as fearful of Banquo becoming king?
‘Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown’ Act 3 Scene 1
‘We have scorched the snake, not kill’d it’ Act 3 Scene 2
‘Oh, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!’ Act 3 Scene 2
How is the darkness motif shown at the start of the play?
‘The instruments of darkness tell us truths’ Banquo, Act 1 Scene 3
‘Enter BANQUO, and FLEANCE with a torch’ Stage Directions, Act 3 Scene 3
How is Macbeth shown as fearful and mentally week in Act 3 Scene 4?
‘Hence, horrible shadow’
‘It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood’
‘We are yet but young in deed.’
How is Macbeth shown as becoming more tyrannical when he sees a threat to his reign in Act 4 Scene 1?
‘The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.’
‘give to th’ edge o’ th’ sword’
How is Lady Macduff shown as betrayed and furious at Macduff leaving her in Act 4 Scene 2?
‘Everyone that does so is a traitor, and must be hanged’
‘the poor wren, The most diminutive of birds’
How is Macduff shown as greatly hurt and desperate to get his country back in Act 4 Scene 3?
‘Bleed, bleed, poor country! Great tyranny!’ Macduff
‘He has no children. All my pretty ones?’ Macduff
‘It cannot be call’d our mother, but our grave,’ Ross
How is Lady Macbeth shown as greatly weakened in Act 5 Scene 1?
‘Enter LADY MACBETH, with a taper’ Stage Directions
‘Out, damned spot! Out, I say!’ Lady Macbeth
‘All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.’ Lady Macbeth
How is Macbeth shown as hated in Act 5 Scene 2?
‘Revenges burn in them’ Menteith
‘His secret murders sticking on his hands.’ Angus
How is Macbeth shown as used to violence and death in Act 5?
‘I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack’d’ Scene 3
‘Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow’ Scene 5
How is Macbeth shown as fearful and broken down in Act 5 Scene 3?
‘Give me my armour’
‘Throw physic to the dogs’
How is Macbeth shown as greatly hated in Act 5?
‘Tyrant, show thy face!’ Act 5 Scene 7
‘This dead butcher and his fiend-like queen’ Act 5 Scene 9
How is Macbeth shown to have ambition?
“Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself, And falls on th’other”, “To plague th’inventor”, “poison’d chalice” Act 1 Scene 7 Macbeth
