Quotes by Theme Flashcards
1
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MACBETH - Initial Presentation
(4)
A
- “Brave Macbeth”
- “Bellona’s bridegroom”
- “Stars hide your fires/ let not light see my black andd eep desires”
- “Unseamed him from the nave to the chops”
2
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OTHELLO - Initial Presentation
(4)
A
- “My parts, my title and my perfect soul”
- “Valiant, brave and wise”
- “Keep up your bright swords or the dew will rust them”
- “She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them”
3
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MACBETH - Influences (Lady Macbeth)
(5)
A
- “Pour mine spirits in thine ear”
- “Are you a man?”
- “Unsex me here”
- “Look like the flower but be the seprent under’t”
- “A foolish thought to say a sorry sight”
4
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MACBETH - Influences (Witches)
(5)
A
- “All hail Macbeth, thou shalt be King hereafter”
- “Stay you imperfect speakers, tell me more”
- “Speak I charge you”
- “If chance will have me King, why chance may crown me”
- “The instruments of darkness tell us truths; win us with honest trifles to betray us in deepest conseuence”
5
Q
OTHELLO - Influences (Iago)
(10)
A
- “I’ll pour pestilence in his ear”
- “Make the net that shall enmesh them all”
- “With as little web as this I will ensnare a great a fly as Cassio”
- “I will in Cassio’s lodging lose this napkin/ and let him find it”
- “Iago is most honest”
- “That he would steal away so guilty-like, seing you coming”
- “Is he not honest?/”Honest, my lord?”
- “O bewre my lord of jealousy, it is the green eyed monster”
- “Observe her well with Cassio, wear your eye”
- “Behold her topped?”
6
Q
MACBETH - Committing
(2)
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- “Is this a dagger I see before me, the handle towards my hand?” / “and on the blade […] gouts of blood”
- “I go and it is done”
7
Q
OTHELLO - Committing
(2)
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- “In the due reverence of a sacred vow, I here engage my words”
- “But let her live”
8
Q
MACBETH - Violence + Impact
(10)
A
- Tis said, they eat each other”
- Seize upon Fife; give to the edge o’the sword his wife, his babes and all the unfortunate souls”
- “I am in blood stepp’d so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er”
- “Blood will have blood”
- “We are yet but young indeed”
- The Thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now? What, will these hands ne’er be clean?”
- “Macbeth doth murder sleep - the innocent sleep”
- “O full of scorpions is my mind”
- “But wherefore could I not pronounce Amen”
- “Will all great Neptune’s oceans wash this blood clean from my hand”
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9
Q
OTHELLO - Violence + Impact
(6)
A
- “O monstrous, monstrous! […] I will tear her all to pieces”
- “I will chop her into messes, cukhold me!”
- “Arise black vengeance form thy hollow cell! Yield, O love, they crown and heartened throne to tyrranous hate”
- “[He strikes her”
- “O blood, blood blodd”
- “Zounds!”
10
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MACBETH - Ending
(5)
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- “Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen”
- “I will not yield to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet”
- “In double sense”
- “Tied me to a stake I cannot fly but bear-ike I must fight the cause”
- “And thou oppos’d being of no women born, yet I will try the last”
11
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OTHELLO - Ending
(4)
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- “Like the base Indian threw a pearl away richer than all the tribe”
- “Of one that loved not wisely but too well; of one not easily jealous but being wrought perplexed in the extreme”
- “I kissed thee ere I killed thee; no way but this, killing myself, to die upon a kiss”
- “From this point forth I never will speak a word”
12
Q
MACBETH - Women
(2)
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- “Out damned spot! Out I say!”
- “Be innocent of the knowledge”
13
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OTHELLO - Women
(3)
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- “I understand the firy in your words but not the words”
- “I had rather have lost my purse”
- “Villainous whore!”
14
Q
MACBETH - MacDuff
(1)
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- “Front to front, bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself; within my sword’s length”
15
Q
OTHELLO - Emilia
(2)
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- “But I do think it is their husband’s faults if wives do fall; say they slack in their duties […] say they strike us”
- “What is it that they do when they change us for others? Is it sport?”
