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macbeth
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- 1“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.” Act 1 scene 1good is bad bad good.
yinyang - 2“What! can the devil speak true?” Act 1 scene 3Sometimes what Satan says is true, to make us more ready to believe his lies.
- 3“A deed without a name.” Act 4 scene 1Suggesting that those actions are not sanctioned by God.
- 4“Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Act 1 scene 7Attempting to pick up the dagger, only to find that it's made of air.
- 5“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” Act 5 scene 3life is meaningless, useless, and empty; and that every day just creeps by like every other day
- 6“I have given suck, and know How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.” Act 1 scene 7By describing herself as a tender and loving mother who nonetheless would have killed her own child before she would abort a plan to seize power,
- 7“What’s done cannot be undone.” Act 5 scene 1You cannot reverse, change, or take back that which has already happened.
- 8''unsex me here'' Act 1 scene 5Take away her femininity
- 9"Here's the smell of blood still. All perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.''
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- Flashcards on macbeth, created by Rachel Hilton on 28/06/2022.
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