Macbeth Themes Flashcards
1
Q
Appearance versus Reality
Fair
A
“Fair is foul and foul is fair”
2
Q
Appearance versus Reality
Flower
A
“Look like th’ innocent flower, but be the serpent under’it”
3
Q
Appearance versus Reality
Daggers
A
“There’s daggers in men’s smiles”
4
Q
Ambition
Spur
A
“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on th’ other”
5
Q
Ambition
Illness
A
“Art not without ambition, but without the illness that should attend it”
6
Q
Ambition
Step
A
“The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap”
7
Q
Gender Roles
Man?
A
“Are you a man?”
8
Q
Gender Roles
Milk
A
“Come to my woman’s breasts and take my milk for gal”
9
Q
Gender Roles
Business
A
“You shall put this nights great business into my dispatch”
