Macbeth Characters

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Lady Macbeth

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Macbeth's wife

More ambitious than her husband

cruel, less sympathy and mocking/ruthless

Act 1 Scene 5

my dearest partner of greatness

yet do I fear thy nature, it is too full o'th'milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way

the raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of king Duncan under my battlements

come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty;

make thick my blood,

Come to my woman's breasts and take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers,

Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke in hell,

that my keen knife see not the wound it makes, nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dar

O never shall sun that murrow see

your face, my thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters

look like th'innocent flower, but be the serpent under't

Act 1 Scene 7

was the hope drunk wherein you dressd yourself? hath it slept since? and wakes it now to look so green and pale at what it did so freely? | art thou afeard to be the same in thine own act and valour, as thou art in desire?

what beast was't then that made you break this enterprise to me? when you dust do it, then you were a man.

nor time, nor place did then adhere, and yet you would make both. they have made themselves and that their fitness now does unmake you

screw your courage to the sticking-place

what cannot you and I perform upon th'unguarded Duncan?

Act 2 Scene 2

that which hath made them drunk, hath made me bold; what hath quench'd them, hath given me fire

hark, peace! it was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman which gives the stern'st good-night

a foolish thought, to say a sorry sight

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

a little water clears us of this deed

Act 3 Scene 2

nought's had, all's spent where our desire is got without content. 'tis safer to be that which we destroy than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy

Act 3 Scene 4

feed, and regard him not. are you a man?

you lack the season of all natures, sleep

Act 5 Scene 1

out, damned spot! out, I say! | yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?

will these hands ne'er be clean?

here's the smell of the blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand

what's done cannot be undone

Seite 2

Macbeth

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tragic hero

originally brave

fatal flaw - ambition

mad

cowardly

cruel

Act 1 Scene 3

so foul and fair a day I have not seen

stay you imperfect speakers. tell me more | speak, I charge you

why do you dress me in burrow'd robes?

Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor: the greatest is behind

present fears are less than horrible imaginings

if chance will have me king, why chance may crown me without my stir

Act 1 Scene 4

the Prince of Cumberland: that is a step on which I must fall down, or else o'erleap

let not the light see my black and deep desires

the eye wink at the hand

Act 1 Scene 7

this even-handed justice commends th'ingredience of our poison'd chalice to our own lips

I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself and falls on th'other-

I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people

Act 2 Scene 1

come, let me clutch thee

mine eyes are made the fools o'th'other senses, or else worth all the rest

the bell inveits me. hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell tat summons thee to heaven or to hell

Act 2 Scene 2

methought I heard a voice cry; 'sleep no more: Macbeth does murder sleep'

still it cried, 'sleep no more' | 'Glamis hath murder'd sleep', and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more: Macbeth shall sleep no more

will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? no: this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine

to know my deed, 'twere best not know myself

Act 3 Scene 1

Banquo, thy soul's flight, if it find heaven, must find it out tonight

Act 3 Scene 2

we have scorch'd the snake, not killed it; she'll close, and be herself, whilst our poor malice remains in danger of her former tooth

make our faces vizards to our hearts

O, full of scorpions is my mind

things bad begun, make strong themselves by ill

Act 3 Scene 4

there the grown serpent lies; the worm that's fled hath nature that in time will venom breed, no teeth for th'present

thou canst say I did it; never shake thy gory locks at me!

approach like the Russian bear, the arm'd rhinoceros, or th'Hyrcan tiger, take any shape but that

it will have blood they say, blood will have blood

I am in blood stepp'd in so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er

we are yet young in deed

Act 4 Scene 1

then live, Macduff, what need I fear of thee? but yet I'll make assurance double sure

Act 5 Scene 3

let them fly all

I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack'd

Act 5 Scene 8

why should I play the Roman fool and die on mine own sword

my soul is too much charg'd with blood of thine already

accursed be that tongue that tells me so, for it hath cow'd my better part of man

I'll not fight with thee

I will not yield to kiss the ground at young Malcolm's feet

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Duncan

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Righteous

Good, rightful king

Act 1 Scene 2

what he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won

Act 1 Scene 4

there's no art to find the mind's construction in the face

he was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust

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Three Witches

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strange

confusing

tricksters

Act 1 Scene 1

when the hurly-burly's done, when the battle's lost and won

fair is foul, and foul is fair

Act 1 Scene 3

sleep shall neither night nor day hang upon his penthouse lid; he shall live a man forbid

lesser than Macbeth, and greater

not so happy, yet much happier

Act 4 scene 1

double, double toil and trouble

something wicked this way comes

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Banquo

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righteous

brave

loyal

Macbeth's close friends

Act 1 Scene 3

have we eaten on the insane root

what, can the devil speak true?

that trusted home, might yet enkindle you unto the crown

to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths; win us with honest trifles, to betrays in deepest consequence

Act 2 Scene 1

a heavy summons lies like lead upon me, and yet I would not sleep

Act 3 Scene 1

as the weird sisters promis'd, and I fear thou played'st most foully for't

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Macduff

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loving to his family

vengeful

loyal to his country

Act 2 Scene 3

O horror, horror, horror

confusion now hath made his masterpiece

Act 4 Scene 3

I must also feel it as a man

Act 5 Scene 8

yield thee coward