Macbeth quotes and themes

Macbeth quotes and themes

1. Macbeth

   • "Why do I yield to that suggestion, whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs at the use of nature" Act 1 Scene 3
   • "Full of scorpions is my mind dear wife" Act 3 scene 2
   • "Brave Macbeth, well he deserves that name... unseamed him from the nave to the chaps" Act 1 Scene 2
   • "She 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 syallable 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 its 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 5
   • "Will all great Neptune's ocean was this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand rather turn the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red" Act 2 Scene 2
   • "Each new morn / New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows" Act 3 Scene 3
   • "So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels" Act 1 Scene 7
   • “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which over leaps itself” Act 1 Scene 7
   • "They hail'd him father to a line of kings: Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown / And put a barren sceptre in my gripe" Act 3 Scene 1
   • "I could not say 'Amen'... Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more. Macbeth does murder sleep.'... 'Glamis hath murdered sleep', and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more" Act 2 Scene 2
   • "I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked. Give me my amour... I'll put it on... Give me mine armour… Act 5 Scene 3 Blow wind, come wrack; At least we'll die with harness on our back" Act 5 Scene 5
   • “To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus” Act 3 Scene 1
   • "I am in blood stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go'er" Act 3 Scene 4
   • "Now I am cabined, cribbed confined" Act 3 Scene 4

2. Lady Macbeth

   • "Unsex me here, and fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty... Take
   • “When thou durst do it, then you were a man... I would while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this” Act 1 Scene 7
   • "Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under't" Act 1 Scene 5
   • my milk for gall... Come, thick night and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell" Act 1 Scene 5
   • “Yet I do fear thy nature; it is too full of the milk of human kindness… thou wouldst be great; art not without the ambition, but without the illness that should attend it” Act 1 Scene 5
   • "A little water clears us of this deed... Act 2 Scene 2 Out, damned spot!... What, will these hands ne'er be clean?... here's the smell of blood still" Act 5 Scene 1
   • "What's done cannot be undone" Act 5 Scene 1
   • "The sleeping and the dead are but pictures" Act 2 Scene 2

3. The witches/ werid sisters

   • "Fair is foul and foul is fair" Act 1 scene 1

4. Themes

   • Ambition
   • Masculinity and Cruelty
   • Divine Right of Kings
   • Tyranny
   • Fate
   • Tragedy
   • Guilt
   • Equivocation

5. Malcom

   • "Dispute it like a man" Act 4 Scene 3
   • "He's worth more sorrow / And that I'll spend for him" Act 5 Scene 9

6. Macduff

   • "I shall do so. But I must also feel it like a man" Act 4 Scene 3

7. Banquo

   • "The instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray us in deepest consequence" Act 1 Scene 3
   • “If you can look into seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me” Act 1 Scene 3