QUOTES Flashcards
“So foul and fair a day i have not seen”
MACBETH
saying this day has been filled with good and bad
good = wining bad = witches and the death on the battle field
“More is thy due than more than all can pay”
KING DUNCAN
king express utmost gratitude to macbeth.
“Let not light see my black and deep desires;”
MACBETH
corruption is spreading
his evil is spreading and he doesnt wnat people ‘light’ to see his evil thoghts and wants
wants everything he does to be a secret
“It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness”
LADY MACBETH
her husband is to nice to complete the necessary task to become king
she wants him to gain power
“That I may pour my spirits in thine ear”
LADY MACBETH
wants to brain wash him into doing something so she can gain power
wants him to be king
“Come to my woman’s breasts,
And take my milk for gall”
LADY MACBETH
turn my milk into poison. make me not a women as they are weak
“Your hand, your tongue; look like th’ innocent flower,
But be the serpent under’t. ”
LADY MACBETH
she wants him to be fake and hide the evil plans
flower - nice
serpent - snake when they stab him in th eback [literally]
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”
MACBETH
hide their plans
- lady macbeth ahs persuaded him to do the evil after he talked himself into not doing it
- she has won
- she has made him evil
- the plan is going to happen and they are both ready
“My father as he slept, I had done’t”
LADY MACBETH
she would have done it if the king didnt look like her father.
she has a heart and has fond memories of her father
“hangman’s hands”
MACBETH
blood on your hands
“These deeds must not be thought
After these ways; so, it will make us mad”
LADY MACBETH
she wants to ignore what has happened
- ironic as in the end she does go mad and commits suicide
“What, will these hands ne’er be clean?”
LADY MACBETH
she can never get over all of the murder = domino effect // she convinced him once and it continued
guilt
sorrow
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”
LADY MACBETH
emotional pain = she isnt strong enough = nothing can fix what they have done
“a little water cleans us of this dead” = FALSE
she still feels the repracutions / she is upset and in pain
“Fear not, till Birnan wood
Do come to Dunsinane,”
WITCHES
“My voice is in my sword”
MACDUFF
hatred over macbeth for killing his family.
