Quotes Flashcards
” fair is foul and…
Foul is fair” - witches (juxtaposition/ paradoxical)
“Look like the innocent flower…
But be the serpent undert” - lady Macbeth ( simile / metaphor)
” does murder..
Sleep” - Macbeth ( metaphor)
” stars , hide…
Your fires” - Macbeth ( metaphor)
“Unsex…
Me here” - Lady Macbeth ( metaphor)
“Is this a dagger…
I see before me” - Macbeth ( alternative interpretations - metaphor)
” out…
Damned spot” - lady Macbeth ( metaphor)
” life’s but a…
Walking shadow” - Macbeth (metaphor)
” there to…
Meet Macbeth” - witches ( dramatic convention to introduce main character)
” so foul and…
Fair a day I have not seen” - Macbeth ( association witches - metaphor)
“What can the…
Devil speak true?” - banquo ( acting as foil)
” too full of the…
Milk of human kindness” - Lady Macbeth (metaphor )
” then you were…
A man” - lady Macbeth ( gender roles)
” leave all…
The rest to me” - lady Macbeth ( monosyllabic and imperative language)
” to plague…
The inventor” - Macbeth ( soliloquy)
” his virtues will plead…
Like angels trumpet tongued”
” a dagger…
Of the mind” - Macbeth ( metaphor)
” valiant cousin…
Worthy gentleman” - Duncan
” when the battles…
Lost and won” - witches ( metaphorical)
” all the perfumes of Arabia…
Will not sweeten this little hand” - lady Macbeth ( hyperbole)
” I bear a…
Charmed life” - Macbeth ( metaphor)
“My voice is…
In my sword” Macduff ( metaphor)
” take my…
Milk for gall” - lady Macbeth ( metaphor)
” brave…
Macbeth”
“you should be women…
yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so” Banquo regarding witches androgynous appearance ~ suspicion
“this castle hath…
a pleasant seat” - Duncan
“false face must hide…
what the false heart doth know”
- ‘now does he feel his title hang loose…
about him, like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief” - Angus about Macbeth
“yet I will…
try the last’ - Macbeth (bravery)
“dead butcher and…
his fiend like queen”
“Unseamed him from the nave to the chaos and…
Fix’d his head upon our battlements”
“Loves for his own ends…
Not for you” - one of the witches ( metaphorical? - Shakespead hinting at if women do not fit in with the Jacobean expectations - beauty , wealth etc - they are marginalised)
“Dispute it like…
A man”- Malcolm
” I shall do so but I must…
Also feel it like a man” - Macduff
