Macbeth (Key Quotes)

Macbeth (Key Quotes)

1. 'Thunder and lightning' - (Dark atmosphere, sets tone)

2. 'You shall put this nights great business into my dispatch' - Lady Macbeth (Command, power in relationship, context, unusual for woman to have say at the time)

3. 'Plucked my nipple from from his boneless gums' - Lady Macbeth (Harsh, uncaring, un-motherly, hard-hearted)

4. 'Double, double toil and trouble' - Three Witches (Supernatural, potion)

5. 'When the hurly-burly's done when the battle's lost and won' - Three Witches (Rhyme, unnatural, evil spell)

6. 'Great Glamis, worthy Cawdor' - Lady Macbeth (Manipulating, respected)

7. 'Fair is foul and foul is fair' - Three Witches (Macbeth is not as good as he seems, everything is not as it seems, theme of play)

8. 'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood' - Macbeth (Guilt, metaphor, blood always on hands)

9. 'Sleep no more: Macbeth does murder sleep' - Macbeth (Disturbed sleep, murdered Duncan)

10. 'Too full o' th' milk of human kindness' - Lady Macbeth (Macbeth is too soft, not a man)

11. 'Dashed the brains out' - Lady Macbeth (Violent, murdering, emotionless)

12. 'When you durst do it, then you are a man' - Lady Macbeth (Manipulative, Macbeth is not a man)

13. 'Are you a man?' - Lady Macbeth (Manipulating)

14. 'Look like th' innocent flower but be the surpant under't' - Lady Macbeth (Two-faced, evil, good face)

15. ''Amen' stuck in my throat' - Macbeth (Religion, context, going to hell)

16. 'Come you spirits' - Lady Macbeth (Evil, supernatural, dark)

    • 'Unsex me here' - Lady Macbeth (Wants to rid of her womanly qualities, don't want to be caring, gentle etc)
      • 'Fill me to the crown to the toe, full-top of direst cruelty' - Lady Macbeth (Evil thoughts, make her cruel, able to do evil things)
        • 'Take my milk for gall' - Lady Macbeth (Wants to be evil, poison)
          • 'Come, thick night' - Lady Macbeth (Evil, welcomes darkness, contrast to later on)