Macebth Flashcards
“Fair is ___, and _____ is _____”
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair”
-Witches
“There’s _______ in men’s smiles”
“There’s daggers in men’s smiles”
-King Duncan
“By the _____ of my thumbs, something ______ this way comes”
“By the pricking of my thumb, something wicked this way comes”
-Witches
Talking about Macbeth
“The raven himself is hoarse
That ______ the fatal entrance of ______
Under my battlements”
“The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements”
-Lady Macbeth
“Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o’ the ______ of human ________.”
“Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness.”
-Lady Macbeth
“Come you ______, That tend on mortal thoughts, ______ me here
And fill me from the ______ to the toe topfull
Of ________ _______”
“Come you spirits, That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here
And fill me from the crown to the toe topfull
Of the direst cruelty”
-Lady Macbeth
What is the significance of Lady Macbeth saying “Out dammed spot!”
Earlier on she says “a little water will clear us of this dead”, showing a change in her behaviour.
“Look like the innocent ______ but be the _______ under ‘t.”
“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under ‘t.”
Act 1 Summary
Macbeth meets the witches and is promised Thane of Cawdor then King
Macbeth is rewarded for winning a battle by being given the title Thane of Cawdor which was taken from a ‘most disloyal traitor’
Macbeth sends a letter to his wife about the kind prophecy in which she is referred to as ‘my dearest partner of greatness’
Lady Macbeth plots to kill the King and urges Macbeth on by calling him a coward
Act 2 Summary
They murder King Duncan and blame it on the guards
Macbeth is horrified afterwards
Macduff finds Duncan dead and Macbeth kills the guards
Act 3 Summary
Act 4 Summary
Act 5 Summary
“The _______ ___ ____________! that is a ____ On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap, For in my way it lies.“
“The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap, For in my way it lies.“
-Macbeth
This is after Duncan gives Malcolm the title of Prince of Cumberland meaning he would become king after Duncan’s death
“the ____ invites me
Hear it not, ______, for it is a knell
That summons thee to _______ or to ____.”
“the bell invites me
Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.”
“_____ no more: Macbeth does ______ _______”
“Sleep no more: Macbeth does murder sleep”
“Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis, all,
As the weird women promis’d, and I fear
Thou played’st most _____ for it”
“Thou hast it now, Kind, Cawdor, Glamis, all,
As the weird women promis’d, and I fear
Thou played’st most foully for it”
-Banquo
Talking about Macbeth becoming King
What is the significance of Macbeth saying “so foul and fair a day I have not seen”
He repeats the witches, at the start of the book they say “fair is foul, and foul is fair”
“Whose _______ image doth ______ my hair”
“Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair”
-Macbeth
Having thoughts about killing the king
“How tender ‘this to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have _______ my nipple from his boneless gums
And ______ the brains out, had I so sworn
As you have done to this”
“How tender ‘this to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums
And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn
As you have done to this”
-Lady Macbeth
“Is this a _______ which I see before me,
The _______ towards my hand?Come, let me clutch thee”
“Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle towards my hand?Come, let me clutch thee”
-Macbeth
“My hands are of your _______, but I ______ to wear a heart so _______”
“My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white”
-Lady Macbeth
Insulting Macbeth and calling him a coward
“O, full of ________ is my ______, dear wife!”
“O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!”
-Macbeth
What is the significance of Macbeth saying “Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck”
Macbeth feels he does not need Lady Macbeth anymore.
Shows a change in their relationship as earlier he calls her “my dearest partner of greatness”
“Upon my head they place a _________ crown”
“Upon my head they place a fruitless crown”
-Macbeth
He will have no heirs
