Key quotes

Key quotes

1. "What cannot you and I preform upon th'ungaurded Duncan?"

   • Calms Macbeth's fear of failure

2. "Bring fourth men-children only"

   • Male child to bcome heir to the throne
   • Said after Macbeth is calmed from Lady Macbeth

3. LM: And dashed the brains out, had I sworn as you have done too this

   • She added brutal imagery to make him feel small and unmanly

4. "If we should fail?"

   • Macbeth is looking to Lady Macbeth for support

5. 'For brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name -'

   • At the start the Captain calls him heroic

6. "Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?" (Act II, Scene I)

   • Macbeth is hallucinating and seeing a dagger
     • He sees it as a sign to kill King Duncan

7. "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?

   • Religious context
   • Water represents innocence and blood represents darkness and his crimes

8. No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red" (Act II, Scene II)