Macbeth

Macbeth

1. Lady Macbeth

   • "Look like the innocent flower but the serpent under't"
   • "When you durst do it, then you were a man"
   • "Come you spirits"
   • "Whats done cannot be undone"
   • "Unsex me here"
     • Calling upon the devil to "unsex" her. seen as her asking for the power that a man would have had
       • Idea of witchcraft, a sin punishable by death
   • "Here's the smell of blood still"
   • "Give me the daggers"
   • "Speak not"
   • "Had he not resembled my father, as he slept, I had done it"
     • First sign of weakness shown by Lady Macbeth

2. Lord Macbeth

   • "If chance will have me King, why, chance may crown me"
   • "I dare do all that may become a man"
   • "Is this a dagger which I see before me?"
   • "To feeling as to sight"
   • "And such instrument I was to use"
   • "All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter"
   • "Let not light see my black and deep desires"
   • "Full of scorpions is my mind"
     • Shows how Macbeth is starting to break down
     • Scorpions are poisonous, suggests ho his sins are burningaway at him
     • Own conscience has turned on him

3. Three Witches

   • "All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter"
   • "Fair is foul and foul is fair"
   • "He shall live a man forbid"
   • "In thunder, lightning, or in rain?"
   • "Eye of newt and toe of frog"
   • "A deed without a name"

4. Banquo

   • "To win us, to our harm"
   • "Thou play'dst most foully for't"
     • Questions the loyalty of Banquo and to whom. He suspects Macbeth yet does not act upon it
       • Corruption? Banquo knows if Macbeth becomes king, his Fleance will be heir to the throne
   • "What, can the devil speak true?"