Quote Bank Flashcards by Ethan Emerson

“Fair is foul and foul is fair”

ACT 1:1 Witches
Supernatural

“So foul and fair a day I have not seen” - Macbeth Act 1:3
parallels to witches

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“Come thick night and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell…not heaven peep through the blanket of the dark”

Act 1:5 Lady Macbeth
Supernatural, femininity

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“brave Macbeth – well he deserves that name
Disdaining Fortune, with his brandish’d steel, which smok’d with bloody execution…Like valour’s minion”

Act 1:2 Sergent
Bravery and Fear

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Bloody instructions, which being taught, return to plague the inventor:
..our poison’d chalice To our own lips

Act 1:7 Macbeth
Bravery and Fear, Fate

Motif of Blood and Fate

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“To be thus is nothing/But to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo/stick deep ”

Act 3:1 Macbeth
Bravery and fear

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“O full of scorpions is my mind”

Act 3:2 Macbeth
Bravery and Fear

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“Come you spirits…Unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe topful if direst cruelty…take my milk for gall you murdering ministers”

Act 1:5 Lady Macbeth
Supernatural, femininity, religion

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“Look like th’innocent flower,/But be the serpent under’t”

Act 1:5 Lady Macbeth
Masculinity, deception, public/private faces

Metaphor: serpent = biblical + imperative = power and command

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“The raven himself is hoarse who croaks the fatal entrance…/Under my battlements”

Act 1:5 Lady Macbeth
Masculinity, leadership, Fate

Raven = Omen & evil

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“The repetition, in a woman’s ear, Would murder as it fell”

Act 2:3 Macduff
femininity, context at time

“look to the lady”

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“his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off”

Act 1:7 Macbeth
Leadership vs tyranny, divine

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“Not in the legions of horrid hell can come a devil more damned In evils to top Macbeth”

Act 4:3 Macduff
Leadership vs tyranny

Contrasts to Duncan - divine right of kings

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“This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues”

Act 4:3 Malcolm
Leadership vs tyranny

“dead butcher and his fiend-like queen”
Slaughter of innocent

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“There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face. He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust”

Act 1:4 Duncan
Trust and Deception

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“There’s daggers in men’s smiles”

Act 2:3 Donalbain

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“A little water clears us of this deed, how easy it is then!”

Act 2:2 Lady Macbeth
Guilt/Remorse

Motif of Blood

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“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”

Act 5:1 Lady Macbeth
Guilt and remorse, blood imagery

Exotic (Arabia) - even riches and power cannot undo her actions + guilt

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“My hands are of your colour but I shame To wear a heart so white”

Act 2:2 Lady Macbeth
Guilt and Remorse

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“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine”

Act 2:2 Macbeth
Guilt and remorse, blood imagery

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“ ‘ Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep’ “

Act 2:2 Macbeth
Supernatural, sleep, natural order

“As they had seen me with these hangman hands…I had most need of blessing, and “Amen” stuck in my throat“

Act 2:2 Macbeth
Divine Order, Guilt/remorse

Lost all connection to God. King selected leader on God behalf

“Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The Lord’s anointed temple”

Act 2:3 Macduff
Natural Order, Violence

silver skin lac’d with his golden blood

“stars hide your fires/ Let light not see my black and deep desires”

Act 1:4 Macbeth
Natural Order, Deception

Signs of nobleness will shine like stars

“Destroy your sight with a new Gorgon”

Act 2:3 Macduff
Natural Order, Violence

**"It will have blood...Blood will have blood”**

Act 3:4 Macbeth Violence | Motifs of Blood

**“Lamentings heard I’ the air; strange screams of death,”**

Act 2:3 Lennox Natural Order

**“I have no spur/ To prick the sides of my intent, but only only/Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself /And falls on th'other"**

Act 1:7 Macbeth Ambition

**“I am settled and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.”**

Act 1:7 Macbeth Ambition | **“We will proceed no further in this business:”**. Influenced - weak

**“The very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand”**

Act 4:1 Macbeth Ambition | Greatly shows the transition in play. Impulsive and strong-willed

**"We have scorch’d the snake, not kill’d it"**

Act 3:2 Macbeth Guilt/Remorse

**"his title/Hang loose about him like a giant’s robe/Upon a dwarfish thief"**

Act 5:2 Angus Natural Order

**" upon my head they placed a fruitless crown and put a barren scepter in my grip"**

Act 3:1 Macbeth DO & K, fate, control

**” when you durst do it, then you were a man”**

Act 1:7 LM Gender

**plucked my nipple from his boneless gums/And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn**

Act 1:7 LM Gender

**Have we eaten from the insane root that takes reason prisoner?**

**He hath wisdom that doth guide his valour**

**All my pretty ones? All my pretty chickens… I must also feel it as a man**

**Out, out, brief candle! Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage**

Act 5:5 M Ambition, nihilism, tyranny

**At least we’ll die with harness on our back**

| **Bear like we must fight the course** ## Footnote **Macduff was from his mother's womb ripped**

**Out damned spot. Out I say! Will these hand ne’er be clean?**

| **Hell is murky!--Fie, my Lord. Fie!**

**Bleed bleed poor country!...It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds.**

**Hear it not Duncan for it is a knell. That summons thee to heaven or to hell**

**Tis day, and yet darkness strangles the travelling lamp**

**I have no words; my voice is in my sword**

Act 5:8 Macduff

**As cannons over-charged with double cracks/So they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe**

A 1:2 Sergeant | "C" sonic Repetition "double"

**I fear thy nature/ It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness**

**Thou wouldst be great,/Art not without ambition, but without/The illness should attend it**

Act 1:5

**falcon towering in her pride of place/ Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed**