MACBETH
lady macbeth
banquo
macbeth
"so foul and fair a day i have not seen"
"hie thee hither, that i may pour spirits in thine ear" 👥 ABT M
"if good, why do i yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs
"stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires"
"disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel, which smoked with blood execution like valor's minion carved out his passage"
"i do fear your nature, it is too full o' th' milk of human kindness" 👥 LM TO M
"come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here"
"fill me from the crown to the toe-top full of direst cruelty"
"look like th' innocent flower but be the serpent under 't"
"my dearest partner of greatness" 👥 TO M
"come to my woman's breasts, and take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers"
"what beast was't, then that made you break this enterprise to me? when you durst do it, then you were a man" 👥 TO M
MACBETH AS A CHARACTER
"so i lose none in seeking augment it, but still keep my bosom franchised and allegiance clear i shall be counselled"
"infirm of purpose! give me the daggers" 👥 TO M
"these deeds must not be thought after these ways. so, it will make us mad"
"my hands are of your colour, but i shame to wear a heart so white" 👥 TO M
"vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself and falls on th' other"
"this supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good"
"art not without ambition, but without the illness that should attend it"
"methought i heard a voice cry, 'sleep no more! macbeth does murder sleep"
"will all great neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?"
"false face must hide what the false heart doth know"
"to know my deed, 'twere best not to know myself"
"wicked dreams abuse the curtained sleep"
the witches
"fair is foul and foul is fair, hover through the fog and filthy air"
"when shall we three meet again? in thunder, lightning, or rain?
"what are these so withered and wild in their attire, that look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth"
"the weird sisters, hand in hand"
"a drum, a drum! macbeth doth come"
guilty
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violent or tyrannical
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macbeth's guilt is focused on the murder as he expresses his remorse directly before + after duncan's death
after that his guilt comes in the form of paranoia in his frenzied murder spree
shakespeare suggests guilt and conscience are more powerful than ambition
religion
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he knows regicide will cut him off from god forever and he will go to hell for it, so he reconsiders his plan - showing the power religion and belief had over people at the time
shakespeare suggests macbeth should have listened to his conscience and his faith - he shows the moral and religious consequences
jacobian britain was a very religious + christian country and people believed that god was all-seeing - no one was exempt from this
"but wherefore could i not pronounce 'amen'? i had most need of blessing, and 'amen' stuck in my throat"
he is deeply distressed and upset by this experience, he is scared because he has been denied god's blessing
blood
"my soul is too much charged with blood of thine already" (5.8)
"i am in blood stepped so far that, should i wade no mor, returning were as tedious as go o'er" (3.4)
"it will have blood, they say; blood wil have blood" (3.4)
"will all great neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hands? no: this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green ones red." (2.2)
blood is a metaphor for macbeth's guilt, as this blood continues to haunt him throughout the play until his death
sleep
sleep is a symbol of innocence and peace: it brings comfort and is an escape from the real world. sleep is denied for macbeth and his insomnia takes a toll on him
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"methought i heard a voice cry 'sleep no more! macbeth does murder sleep' - the innocent sleep, sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, the death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast" (2.2)