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Macbeth Quotes
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- 1Fair is foul, and foul is fair... (1.1)The three witches
- 2And oftentimes, to win us to our harm the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray us /In deepest consequence (1.3)Banquo (to Macbeth)
- 3Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it (1.4)Speaker? Malcom (about Cawdor)
Meaning/significance?
Shows how a person can die with dignity/die well (by repenting), also it contrasts a good death to Macbeth's death (bad death)
Both are traitors. - 4If chance will have me King, why / Chance may crown me, / Without my stir. (1.3)Speaker? Macbeth
Meaning/significance? Macbeth is hoping he will not have to do anything to become king, that fate will take care of it
theme: fate - 5That is a step on which / I must fall down or o'er leap Stars, hide your fires!/ Let not light see my black and deep desires. (1.4)Speaker? Macbeth (to himself)
Meaning/significance? He is now commited to killing Duncan...
it shows the growth of evil in Macbeth...
shows with what side he is aligned...
first step down a slipper slope - 6Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. (1.5)Speaker? Lady Macbeth (to herself)
Meaning/significance? Lady Macbeth is worried about her husband's lack of ruthlessness. - 7Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, / And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full / Of direst cruelty! (1.5)Speaker? Lady Macbeth
Meaning/significance? Shows Lady Macbeth siding with evil forces
themes: supernatural, gender bending, evil - 8I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other - (1.7)Speaker? Macbeth
meaning/significane? showing Macbeth's only motivation is his ambition
theme: ambition - 9I do all that may become a man Who dares do more is none. (1.7) When you durst do it, then you were a man; (1.7)speaker(s)? Macbeth->lady macbeth
meaning/significance? Lady Macbeth is convincing her to husband to "be a man"... shows macbeths hesitance/humaness
theme: gender bending - 10False face must hide what false heart doth know (1.7)speaker? Macbeth
meaning/significance? Macbeth shows his commitment to putting up an act of being innocent, choosing to hide things instead of confessing/repenting
theme:appearance/reality
- 11Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more!/ Macbeth does murder sleep"—the innocent sleep, / Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care. (2.2)speaker? Macbeth
meaning/significance? Shows Macbeth is feeling guilty (for killing Duncan) and also jumpy
themes? sleep/dreams, clothes motif - 12Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand? (2.2)speaker? Macbeth
meaning/signficance? showing his guilt, how he feels he will never be clean, evil will spread as a result (dominoes effect)
themes? order/disorder, guilt, great chaine of being - 13A little water clears us of this deed, How easy is it then! (2.2)speaker? Lady Macbeth
meaning/significance? saying it will be easy to shake this off/be clean/guilt-free, contrasts towards Macbeth who says the opposite
themes? deception - 14... there's daggers in men's smiles. (2.3)speaker? Donlbaine (to malcom)
Meaning/significance? Donlbaine saying you cannot trust anyone
theme? appearance v. reality - 15Thou hast it now—King, Cawdor, Glamis, all As the Weird Women promised, and I fear Thou played'st most foully for't. (3.1)speaker? Banquo (about Macbeth)
meaning/significance? Banquo suspects that Macbeth killed Duncan for the crown
themes? ambition, unnatural evil - 16...To be thus is nothing, But to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo Stick deep. (3.1)speaker? Macbeth
meaning/significance? shows his growing ambition and paranoia, shows he is still worried about the prophecy of Banquo's decendents
theme: ambition - 17Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown / And put a barren scepter in my grip, / Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand, / No son of mine succeeding. (3.1)speaker? Macbeth
meaning/significance? worring that his kids will not get the crown, shows his growing ambition (he's not happy being king, but he also wants kids to be kings)
theme: ambition - 18...Naught'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. (3.2)speaker? lady macbeth
meaning/significance? she reveals regret/doubt, shows the hedonists paradox, shows her insecurity and fearfullness
themes: guilt - 19Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. (3.2)speaker? Macbeth
meaning/significance? represents how one bad things leads to another (snowball/dominoe) effects of evil
themes:evil - 20Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake Thy gory locks at me. (3.4)speaker? Macbeth (to banquo's ghost)
meaning/significance? showing guilt
theme: guilt - 21It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood. / Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak. (3.4)speaker? Macbeth
meaning/significance? showing how he is scared, forshadowing what will happen
theme: guilt, idea of vengance/things put back into order - 22For mine own good All causes shall give way. I am in blood Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er. (3.4)speaker? Macbeth
meaning/significane? I don't care about anything but my own good anymore...I'm in to far, it's to late for me to go back (no turning back)
theme: ambition - 23Be bloody, bold and resolute. Laugh to scorn/ The power of man, for none of woman born / Shall harm Macbeth. (4.1)speaker? Bloody child (2nd apperation) (to macbeth)
meaning/significance? encourages false sense of security
theme: fate - 24Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill Shall come against him. (4.1)speaker? 3rd apperation (crowned child w/ tree)
meaning/significance? shows how evil fouls us, lures Macgeth into a false sense of security
themes: fate, temptation - 25From this moment The firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. (4.1)speaker? macbeth
meaning/significance? proves he feels secure (as a result of the two prophecies), shows he is growing more impulsive and ambitious
themes: evil - 26Each new morn new widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows Strike heaven on the face, that it resounds As if felt with Scotland, and yelled out Like syllable of dolor. (4.3)speaker? Macduff (to malcom)
meaning/significance? describing the decaying state of Scotland
theme: order/disorder - 27He hath a heavenly gift of prophecy, And sundry blessings hang about his throne/ That speak him full of grace. (4.3)speaker? Malcom (about English King)
meaning/significance? his praise and discription of the English king shows what a good king is like in contrast to Macbeth
themes: divine right of kings, order/disorder, nature of leadership - 28Alas poor country, Almost afraid to know itself. It cannot Be called our mother, but our grave. (4.3)speaker? Ross (to Macduff and Malcom)
meaning/significance? shows that because the great chaine of being was disrupted (by macbeth) the country is in bad shape
theme: divine right of kinds, order/disorder, great chaine of being - 29All my pretty ones? Did you say 'all'? O hell-kite! All? What, all my pretty chickens and their dam At one fell swoop? (4.3)speaker? Macduff (when he learns his household was murdered)
meaning/significance: shows his shock and grief, example of how Macbeth's cruetly is effecting other people - 30Out, damned spot, out I say! (5.1)speaker? Lady Macbeth (when she is sleep walking)
meaning/signifcance? shows her guilt and how she is haunted by it
themes: supernatural, unnatural
- 31Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles. / Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. More needs she the divine than the physician. (5.1)Speaker? Doctor
meaning/significance? Lady Macduff needs divine help
theme: sickness, unnatural (evil) - 32And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have... (5.3)speaker? Macbeth
meaning/significance? I'm sick at heart, shows he is reaping what he has sown, shows how he is realy missing the important things of life
theme: evil, pride and ambition - 33She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow... 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 waking 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. (5.5)speaker? Macbeth
meaning/significance? (shows despaire after her death?) shows how his world view is very nihilistic (no heaven or hell, life is short and meaningless)
theme: religion, evil, dying - 34Of all men else I have avoided thee. But get thee back. My soul is too much charged With blood of thine already. (5.8)Speaker? Macbeth (to malcom)
meaning/significance? saying I don't want to kill you because I've already killed your family, shows a more human side, shows he feels guilty
theme: guilt - 35...this, and what needful else That calls upon us, by grace of grace, We will perform in measure, time, and place. (5.8)Speaker? Malcom (end of play speech)
meaning/significance? shows the restoration of order, shows that malcom and proper ruling family is aligned with good/holy powers
themes: order/disorder, divine right of kings - 36This set created by...Hannah_Baker34
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