Quotes Flashcards
What’s done/ cannot be undone
Lady Macbeth act 5 scene 1- ironic as she later is driven to suicide by her guilt
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine
Macbeth Act 2 scene 2 -He refers to both the literal blood on his hand but also to his sense of guilt.Could be talking about how this action will pollute.And how it cannot stay hidden.Lady M later parallels.
Come,
come, come, come, give me your hand. What’s done
cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed
Lady M act 5 scene 1- her final words.Contrasts her previous behaviour.Guilt has changed her strong personality.She now has to be cared for like a child.
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
Act 1 scene 7 Lady Macbeth- trying to shame Macbeth for questioning plan.Shows her capacity for violence.Harsh verbs.Disrupts stereotypes. Targeting M’s masculinity
What, all my pretty chickens and their dam
At one fell swoop
Act 4 scene 3 Macduff learning his family was murdered.Affectionate imagery.Show he can be loving while being powerful.Connects with audiences.Sets the mood for revenge
Every one did bear
Thy praises in his kingdom’s great defense
Act 1 scene 3 Ross to Macbeth praising his bravery.Praised for patriotism and defending his country with honour.Ironic because he is later revealed as the opposite of those values he was praised for.
Bleed, bleed, poor country!
Act 4 scene 3 Macduff when he thinks Malcolm won’t join him back to Scotland .He is in despair because he is devoted to his country and its suffering hurts him.Contrasts with Macbeth.
O nation miserable
With an untitled tyrant, bloody-sceptered
Act 4 scene 3 Macduff to Malcom when he believed Malcolm was as bad as M. Vocative O .Is what makes Malcolm trust him as he is sincere in his concern for the country
Fair is foul, and foul is fair
Hover through the fog and filthy air
Act 1 Scene 1 foreshadows the meeting with Macbeth, he repeats the mantra which connects him to them
How appearance and reality is introduced
‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’
Repetition of foul and fair
‘So foul and fair a day I have not seen’
‘Look like..
the innocent flower but be the serpent underneath it’
‘I have no spur to prick the rather sides of my intent.,
only vaulting ambition’
‘Amen,
stuck in my throat’
‘All the perfumes of Arabia
will not sweeten this little hand’
