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Macbeth quotes
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- 1"Fair is foul and foul is fair"Things that look pretty ("fair") will become ugly ("foul") and things that are ugly will become beautiful. The predictions they offer are beautiful to Macbeth.
- 2"Unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps"He was a valiant hero
- 3"Thou shalt be King hereafter"Macbeth gets told he'll become king by the witches. This is the spark to start the whole play's events
- 4"Thou shalt get kings though thou be none"Witches tell Banquo that his descendants will be King but he shall not. Banquo could be saddened by this and it later leads to Macbeth killing Banquo
- 5"call thee Thane of Cawdor"Macbeth becomes Thane of Cawdor
- 6"Stars hide your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires"-Macbeth shows status by using rhyme.
- DUALITY: He is showing that he has dark desires (to kill/be King?) - 7"Unsex me here"Lady Macbeth wants the courage and manhood to kill.
Could show that she acts tough but is just as scared as Macbeth? - 8"Look like th'innocent flower but be the serpent under't"DUALITY: show that Lady Macbeth looks like a respectable lady but she wants glory too
- 9"Our honour'd hostess"Duncan calls her an "honour'd hostess" which is ironic because she is plotting to kill him
- 10"He's here in double trust""double" = DUALITY
MACBETH: thinks he'll be told by Duncan that he will be King
DUNCAN: Doesn't expect that he'll be killed - 11"and dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn"Lady Macbeth says that Macbeth is a coward as she would kill her own baby if she had said she would.
-Also suggests that she wants her caring/kind stereotype to dissapear - 12"Is this a dagger I see before me?"Hallucination as Macbeth sees dagger pointing at Duncan's room
-"?" - rhetorical question shows that Macbeth is questioning himself and is nervous - 13"It is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell"Macbeth knows that by killing he'll go to hell for regicide and Duncan will go to heaven
- 14"Hath he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done't"Lady Macbeth is maybe as scared/put off by the murder as Macbeth but she wants to be crowned just as much. She seems like she's making up excuses
- 15"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?"He regrets his actions and he knows he'll never undo his actions.
- Foreshadowing Lady Macbeth's end
- Suggests that Macbeth knows he'll never get over the guilt
-"Neptune" is a greek God, he's turning to other God's because he is desperate for redemption - 16"A little water clears us of this deed" - Lady MacbethIronic as she later goes crazy because she keeps hallucinating blood on her hands and keeps washing them with water
- 17"I fear thou playd'st most foully for it"Banquo starts suggesting that Macbeth has sinned to be King
- 18"Full of scorpions is my mind"AO3: At the time people didn't know about mental illness
- "scorpions" are venomous, suggesting his mind is 'poisoned' and that he is paranoid - 19"Fly good Fleance, fly, fly, fly"The commas and repetition of "fly" suggests that fly was one of Banquo's last words and he wanted to save his son
- 20"never shake thy gory locks at me"Macbeth tells Banquo's ghost not to blame him for the murder, he's trying to convince himself that he didn't do it as he is now even more guilty
- 21"Macduff is gone to pray with holy king"- AO3: could have religious connotations? "holy king" could mean God?
-He has gone to speak to English King? - 22"Double, double, toil and troubleDUALITY: "double"
- Suggests more trouble or murder ahead - 23"None of woman born shall harm Macbeth"Gives Macbeth feeling of immortality
Macduff was born by C-section so he can kill Macbeth - 24"Macbeth shall never vanquished be till great Burnam Wood to high Dunsinane hillshall come against him"Gives Macbeth more of a feeling of immortality as its impossible for a forest to move
- The army cut off branches and carry them as disguises towards Macbeth's Castle - 25"He has killed me mother"Macbeth has now killed a child (not directly but through assassins), this emphasises the fact that he will stop at nothing to have power
- 26"savagely slaughtered"sibilance to show how he killed Macduff's wife and children. Could be a religious reference as the 's' sounds are like snakes
- 27"Out, out damned spot"Lady Macbeth keeps hallucinating spots of blood
- 28"Will these hands ne'er be clean?"No matter how many times she washes them
- links to the quote "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?" - 29""I will not be afraid of death and bane til Birnam Forest come to Dunsinane"Speaking in rhyme again, shows his status, power and how he feels invincible
- 30"out, out brief candle!"Foreshadowing that his short reign "brief candle" will be out soon
- 31"Macduff was from his mother's womb untimely ripp'd"Macduff was born by c-section
He goes against "none of woman born shall harm Macbeth" and so he can kill Macbeth
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