Macbeth Quotes
acts 1-3
Is this a dagger which I see before me
I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise?
Speak, I charge you... Witches Vanish
My hands are of your colour; but I shame
To wear a heart so white.
All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!
Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
The GHOST OF BANQUO enters, and sits in MACBETH's place
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Macbeth is a coward, rather than questioning witches he remarks on the weather, letting Banquo do the talking
Macbeth is destined to be king
Macbeth has no power over the witches, even though they know he is to be king
Macbeth is hallucinating, guilt controls him
Macbeth has killed the king, is worried about having been heard
Lady Macbeth belives Macbeth to be a coward, and would ashamed to be so
Macbeth firstly killed sleeping guards while they where venerable, and as a concequence does not sleep
Macbeth is hallucinating from guilt over Banquo's death
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Macbeth is a pushover, letting lady Macbeth control him
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Macbeth is crowned king after he kills Duncan
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The witches don't listen to what he says
Macbeth sees the ghost of banque
Macbeth is constantly worried about being caught
Lady Macbeth repeatedly questions Macbeths masculinity
lady Macbeth starts sleepwalking
Macbeth also hallucinates a dagger
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
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Lady Macbeth is hallucinating blood on her hands from gulit
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Macbeth hallucinates a dagger after Duncan's death, then Banquo's ghost after his death
Why did you bring these daggers from the place?
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Macbeth has brought the knife back, rather than leaving it with the guards, showing that lady Macbeth is the smarter one in the relationship
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Lady Macbeth is often giving Macbeth orders
Fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood
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Lady Macbeth wishes to become truly evil
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Lady Macbeth is the one who made the choice to kill Duncan
Fair is foul, and foul is fair
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fair is associated with looks, so he who looks fair is foul: don't judge by aperance
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Lady Macbeth says "look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it"
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
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a liar must act to hide their true self
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Lady Macbeth says "look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it"
Acts 4-5
By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes
how now you secret black and midnight hags
beware the fane of fife
none of women born shall harm macbeth
until great burnam wood to high dunsanane hill shall come against him
Out damn spot, out I say
Who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him
your wife and babe savagely slaughtered
lets make us medicines of our great revenge to cure this deadly grief
dispute it like a man (abusive, controlling language)
The queen, my lord is dead
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The queen, Lady Macbeth, has killed herself
Malcom wants Macduff to enact revenge on Macbeth, rather than mourn his dead family
Macbeth has had Macduff's wife and child killed, showing that Macbeth has no compassion left
Lady Macbeth can see blood on her hands, even after washing it off
Macbeth belives he cannot die, but in reality can be killed by MacDuff, who was "Untimely ripp'd" from the womb
Macduff, fane of fife, shall kill him. Macbeth does not believe this, but is still scared of him
The witches are feeling a physical sensation to relate to wickedness
Macbeth has become more confident in front of the witches. He now has the courage to confront them
Macbeth believes he will never die, but when soldiers chop down trees to hide behind, it is obvious that this is not the case
Lady Macbeth is supriesed at the amount of blood that comes out of a corpse, never killed before
Malcom wants to cure his grief with revenge