Quotes Flashcards
How do the witches foreshadow the theme of appearance vs reality in Act 1 Scene One
Witches “ Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air.”
Act 1, Scene 1
How do the Witches foreshadow the different intentions of Macbeth vs Banquo in Act 1, Scene 3
1st Witch- lesser than Macbeth, and greater
2nd Witch- Not so happy, yet much happier.
Act 1, scene 3
How does Macbeth express his worries about the supernatural intrusions in Act 1, scene 3?
Macbeth: “This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill; cannot be good
Act 1, Scene 3
What does Macbeth say to the stars in Act 1, Scene 4?
” Stars, hid your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see”
Act 1, Scene 4
What does Lady Macbeth say to the spirits upon reading Macbeth’s letter in Act 1, scene 5?
“Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood; Stop up th’access and passage to remorse……..
Come to my woman’s breasts, and take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers
Act 1, Scene 5
What does Lady Macbeth say to Macbeth about how he should appear on the outside vs. his inner self in Act 1 scene 5?
Lady Macbeth: “Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t”
Act 1 Scene 5
What does Lady Macbeth say to Macbeth about the lengths she would go to to keep a vow? (Act 1, Scene 7)
Lady Macbeth: “ I have given suck, and know how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me-I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, and dashed the brains out, had i sworn as you have done this.”
Act 1, scene 7
How does Macbeth’s ‘dagger’ monologue begin in Act 2, scene 1?
“Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight? or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation proceeding from the heat oppressed brain? Act 2, scene 1
What does Macbeth say as he hears the bell ring on his way to Duncan’s room in Act 2, scene 1
” I go, and it is done: the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven, or to hell
Act 2, scene 1
What does Lady Macbeth say to Macbeth when she takes the daggers back to the murder scene? Act 2, scene 2
” the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures; ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil. Act 2, scene 2
How did the earth react to the killing of their king? Act 2, scene 3
” The night has been unruly: where we lay, our chimneys were blown down, and, as they say, lamentings heard i’th’air, strange screams of death, and prophesying with accents terrible or dire combustion and confused events new hatched to th’woeful time. The obscure bird clamoured the livelong night: some say, the earth was feverous and did shake”
Act 2, scene 3
what excuse does Macbeth give for killing the guards in Act 2, scene 3
“Who can be wise, amazed, temp’rate and furious, loyal and neutral, in a moment? no man: Th’expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason. Here lay Duncan, his silver skin laced with golden blood, and his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature for ruin’s wasteful entrance Act 2, scene 3
What does Macbeth say about his murderous thoughts in Act 1, scene 3
“My thoughts, whose murder is yet fantastical”
Act 1, scene 3
Macbeth would murder Duncan in Act 1, scene 7 if:
” If th’assassination could trammel up the consequence and catch with his surcease, success”
Act 1, scene 7
Macbeth’s thoughts on how he could become king without murdering anyone: (Act 1, scene 3)
“If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me” Act 1, scene 3
