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“Fair is foul and foul is fair”

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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”

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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”

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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

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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 ”

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Act 3:1 Macbeth
Bravery and fear

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“O full of scorpions is my mind”

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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”

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Act 1:5 Lady Macbeth
Supernatural, femininity, religion

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

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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”

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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”

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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”

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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”

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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”

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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”

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Act 1:4 Duncan
Trust and Deception

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“There’s daggers in men’s smiles”

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Act 2:3 Donalbain

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

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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”

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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”

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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”

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Act 2:2 Macbeth
Guilt and remorse, blood imagery

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

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Act 2:2 Macbeth
Supernatural, sleep, natural order

21
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“As they had seen me with these hangman hands…I had most need of blessing, and “Amen” stuck in my throat“

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Act 2:2 Macbeth
Divine Order, Guilt/remorse

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

22
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“Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The Lord’s anointed temple”

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Act 2:3 Macduff
Natural Order, Violence

silver skin lac’d with his golden blood

23
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“stars hide your fires/ Let light not see my black and deep desires”

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Act 1:4 Macbeth
Natural Order, Deception

Signs of nobleness will shine like stars

24
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“Destroy your sight with a new Gorgon”

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Act 2:3 Macduff
Natural Order, Violence

25
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“It will have blood…Blood will have blood”

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Act 3:4 Macbeth
Violence

Motifs of Blood

26
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“Lamentings heard I’ the air; strange screams of death,”

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Act 2:3 Lennox
Natural Order

27
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“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”

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Act 1:7 Macbeth
Ambition

28
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“I am settled and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.”

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Act 1:7 Macbeth
Ambition

“We will proceed no further in this business:”. Influenced - weak

29
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“The very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand”

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Act 4:1 Macbeth
Ambition

Greatly shows the transition in play. Impulsive and strong-willed

30
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“We have scorch’d the snake, not kill’d it”

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Act 3:2 Macbeth
Guilt/Remorse

31
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“his title/Hang loose about him like a giant’s robe/Upon a dwarfish thief”

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Act 5:2 Angus
Natural Order

32
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” upon my head they placed a fruitless crown and put a barren scepter in my grip”

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

33
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” when you durst do it, then you were a man”

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Act 1:7 LM
Gender

34
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plucked my nipple from his boneless gums/And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn

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Act 1:7 LM
Gender

35
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Have we eaten from the insane root that takes reason prisoner?

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36
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He hath wisdom that doth guide his valour

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37
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All my pretty ones? All my pretty chickens… I must also feel it as a man

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38
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Out, out, brief candle! Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage

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Act 5:5 M
Ambition, nihilism, tyranny

39
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At least we’ll die with harness on our back

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Bear like we must fight the course

Macduff was from his mother’s womb ripped

40
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Out damned spot. Out I say! Will these hand ne’er be clean?

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Hell is murky!–Fie, my Lord. Fie!

41
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Bleed bleed poor country!…It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds.

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42
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Hear it not Duncan for it is a knell. That summons thee to heaven or to hell

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43
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Tis day, and yet darkness strangles the travelling lamp

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44
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I have no words; my voice is in my sword

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Act 5:8
Macduff

45
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As cannons over-charged with double cracks/So they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe

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A 1:2
Sergeant

“C” sonic Repetition “double”

46
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I fear thy nature/ It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness

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47
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Thou wouldst be great,/Art not without ambition, but without/The illness should attend it

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Act 1:5

48
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falcon towering in her pride of place/ Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed

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English Macbeth Quotes (8 decks)

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