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MACBETH – GCSE QUOTES & ANALYSIS** - Coggle Diagram
MACBETH – GCSE QUOTES & ANALYSIS
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AMBITION
"Vaulting ambition" – Macbeth's ambition is his only motivation for killing Duncan. (Act 1)
"Stars, hide your fires" – Macbeth wants to hide his evil intentions. (Act 1)
"I am in blood stepped in so far" – Macbeth feels trapped by his violent actions. (Act 3)
GUILT
"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?" – Macbeth feels his guilt can never be removed. (Act 2)
"Out, damned spot!" – Lady Macbeth's guilt becomes overwhelming. (Act 5)
"Macbeth does murder sleep" – Macbeth has destroyed his own peace and innocence. (Act 2)
THE SUPERNATURAL
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair" – The witches confuse good and evil. (Act 1)
"Is this a dagger which I see before me" – Macbeth struggles to separate reality from imagination. (Act 2)
"None of woman born shall harm Macbeth" – The witches give Macbeth false confidence. (Act 4)
POWER & KINGSHIP
"His virtues will plead like angels" – Duncan is presented as a good and innocent king. (Act 1)
"Bleed, bleed, poor country!" – Scotland is suffering under Macbeth's rule. (Act 4)
"This dead butcher and his fiend-like queen" – Macbeth is remembered as a cruel ruler. (Act 5)
GENDER & MANHOOD
"When you durst do it, then you were a man" – Lady Macbeth manipulates Macbeth's masculinity. (Act 1)
"I dare do all that may become a man" – Macbeth believes being a man involves moral limits. (Act 1)
"Unsex me here" – Lady Macbeth rejects traditional femininity. (Act 1)
APPEARANCE VS REALITY
"Look like th' innocent flower, but be the serpent under't" – Evil can hide behind an innocent appearance. (Act 1)
"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face" – People cannot always be judged by appearances. (Act 1)
"False face must hide what the false heart doth know" – Macbeth hides his true intentions. (Act 1)
KEY CONTEXT
Shakespeare wrote Macbeth for King James I.
James I was interested in witches and the supernatural.
Killing a king was seen as a crime against God.
The Divine Right of Kings meant kings were chosen by God.
Shakespeare presents ambition and greed as dangerous.