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1
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The witches want to corrupt all that is good
What is good is bad and what is bad is good

Act 1 scene 1

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Fair is foul and foul is fair

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Macbeth is a hero on the battle field and is worthy of the praise given to him

Act 1 scene 2

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For brave Macbeth well he deserves that name, distaining fortune with his brandished steel which smoked in bloody execution

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The thane of Cawdor has betrayed the king and is now being sent to treason

Act1 scene 2

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Norway himself Assisted by that most disloyal traitor the thane of Cawdor began a dismal conflict

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Macbeth gets the title Thane of Cawdor

Act1 scene2

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Go pronounce his present death and with his former title great Macbeth

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Macbeths words echo the witches from the first scene linking him to the witches

Act 1 scene 2

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So foul and fair a day I have not seen

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Banquo is suspicous of the witches and warns Macbeth that agents of evil can tell us half truths and betray us later

Act1 scene 3

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And oftentimes to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betrays in deepest consequence

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Macbeth is frightened by his own reaction to the witches prophecy, He imagines murdering Ducan and is horrifies by his own thoughts

Act1 scene 3

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Why do I yield to that suggestion who’s horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature

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The king says it is not possible to tell what a person is like by looking at their face

Act 1 scene 4

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There’s no art to find the minds construction in the face he was a gentleman on whom I built and absolute trust

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Macbeth calls on the stars to hold their light so that is deepest desires cannot be seen

Act 1 scene 4

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Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires

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Lady Macbeth worries that Macbeth is too full of kindness to kill the king and get what he wants

Act 1 scene 5

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Yet do I fear thy nature, Is it too full o’ the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way

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Lady Macbeth says that Macbeth has the ambition but lacks the cruelty to commit the murder

Act 1 scene 5

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Thou wouldst be great art not without ambition but without the illness should attend it

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Lady Macbeth wants to persuade Macbeth to overcome what is keeping him from becoming king

Act 1 scene 5

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Hie thee hither, that I may pour my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valour of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round

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13
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Lady Macbeth wants to take away her womanly qualities and to be full of cruelty so she could commit the murder

Act 1 scene 5

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Come you spirits, that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex my here and fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty

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Lady Macbeth wants to take a feminine part of her and fill it with something ugly and evil

Act 1 scene 5

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Come to my women’s breasts and take my milk for gall

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Lady Macbeth does not want anyone to know what she is about to do not even god

Act 1 scene 5

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Come thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, that my keen knife see not the wound it makes

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16
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Lady Macbeth advises her husband to appear innocent but be like a vicious snake underneath

Act 1 scene 5

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Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t

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17
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Macbeth is backing out and doesn’t want to murder Duncan

Act1 scene 7

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We will proceed no further in this business

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Lady Macbeth questions whether Macbeth is too afraid to carry out the murder and do what it takes

Act 1 scene 7

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Art thou afeard to be the same in thine own act an valour as thou art in desire

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19
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Lady Macbeth tells her husband that if they have courage they will not fail

Act 1 scene 7

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But screw your courage to the sticking place and we’ll not fail

20
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Macbeth decides to go through with the murder

Act 1 scene 7

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I am settled and bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat

21
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Macbeth decides to go through with the murder

Act 1 scene 7

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I am settled and bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat

22
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Macbeth must pretend to act innocent and loyal while knowing what evil thing he is about to do

At 1 scene 7

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False face must hide what the false heart doth know

23
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As Macbeth is preparing to kill the king he see’s a vision of a bloody dagger before him

Act 2 scene 1

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Is this a dagger which I see before me the handle toward my hand

24
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Lady Macbeth says she would of killed Duncan had he not reminded her of her father

Act 2 scene 2

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Had he not resembled my father as he slept I had done’t

25
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Lady Macbeth tells her husband not to think about the murder he has just committed

Act 2 scene 2

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These deeds must not be thought after these ways

26
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Macbeth is worried he wont be able to sleep as he feels the guilt of the murder he has committed

Act 2 scene 2

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Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more, Macbeth shall sleep no more

27
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IN panic Macbeth brought the bloody daggers back with him. Lady Macbeth Tells him to wash his hands and get rid of the blood

Act 2 scene 2

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Go get some water and wash this filthy witness from your hands

28
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Lady Macbeth says the sleeping and the dead look the same

Act 2 scene 2

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The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures

29
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Macduff uses Christian imagery to highlight the horror of the kings murder

Act2 scene 3

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Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The lords anointed temple

30
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Malcom says its easy for a liar to pretend to be sad showing that he is suspicious of Macbeth

Act 2 scene3

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To show an unfelt sorrow is an office which the false man does easy

31
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Macduff doubts that Macbeth will be as good a king as Duncan

Act 2 scene 4

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Lest our old robes sit easier than our new

32
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Banquo says Macbeth has fulfilled the witches prophecies however he suspects That Macbeth has not got it fairly

Act 3 scene 1

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Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis, all as the weird women promised and I fear thou played’st most foully for’t

33
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Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown and placed a barren sceptre in my grip

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Macbeth thinks there is little point in his title unless he can pass it on to an heir so his name will live on

34
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Naught has alls spent where our desire is got without content

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Lady Macbeth says she has lost everything because she has no piece of mind since the murder of Duncan

35
Q

We have scorched the snake not killed it

she’ll close and be herself

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Macbeth knows that as long as malcolm and donalbain live his rule may be challenged

36
Q

And make our faces visors to our hearts disguising what thy are

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Macbeth tells his wife that they must wear a mask and avoid showing people what they are really like

37
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Be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck till thou applaud the deed

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Macbeth tells his wife that she does not need to know his plan to murder Banquo and that once the deed is done she will admire it

38
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Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake thy gory locks at me

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Macbeth is appauled to see Banquo’s ghost and tells it that there is no proof that he is responsible for the murder

39
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This is the very painting of your fear this is the air drawn dagger which you said led you to duncan

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Lady Macbeth thinks Macbeth is imagining seeing Banquo ghost like when he imagined the dagger infront of him

40
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It will have blood they say blood will have blood

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Once blood is spilt more blood will be spilt. One violent act leads to another

41
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I am in blood stepped in so far, should I wade no more returning were as tedious as go oer

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Macbeth says that he has commited such terrible acts that there is no going back now

42
Q

By the pricking of my thumbs something wicked this way comes

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The witches know Macbeth is coming to speak to them

43
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Beware Macduff beware the thane of fife

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The first apparition warns Macbeth to beware of Macduff, confirming his suspicions the macduff is not loyal to him

44
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For none of woman born shall harm Macbeth

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The second apparition says no one born of a woman shall ever harm you. Macbeth thinks he is safe

45
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Macbeth shall never vanquished be untill great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him

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Macbeth believes he is invinsiable

46
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From this moment the very firstling of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand

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He vows saying from now on when he thinks of something he will act on it.

47
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The castle of Macduff i will surprise Seize upon Fife, give to the edge o the sword His wife his babes and all unfortunate souls that trace him to his line

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He is going to kill Macduffs family

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