Macbeth Themes

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Madness

Connecting Themes

Guilt

Characters

Macbeth

Lady Macbeth

Act 1 Scene 3

present fears are less than horrible imaginings -Macbeth

my thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, shakes so my single state of man that function is smother'd in surmise -Macbeth

Act 2 Scene 1

is this a dagger I see before me -Macbeth

come, let me clutch thee

art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight? or art thou but a dagger of the mind

Act 2 Scene 2

hark, peace! it was the owl that shriek'd - Lady Macbeth

these deeds must not be thought after these ways; so, it will make us mad -Lady Macbeth

methought I heard a voice cry | repetition of the word 'sleep' and metaphors - Macbeth

how is't with me, when every noise appals me?

Act 3 Scene 2

full of scorpions is my mind

Act 3 Scene 4

then comes my fit again | but now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd, bound in to saucy doubts and fears

which of you have done this?

thou canst say I did it

hence horrible shadow

I am bent to know by the worst means, the worst; for mine own good