Key quotes for stuff

Key quotes for stuff

1. "Thou hast it now—king, Cawdor, Glamis, all, As the weird women promised, and I fear Thou played'st most foully for't."

   • He suspects Macbeth of foul play, but he tells himself to "hush"
   • "And set me up in hope? But hush, no more"

2. "But that myself should be the root and father Of many kings. If there come truth from them"

3. “Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.”

   • The second Apparition tells him that no man born from a woman can kill him
     • The ‘bloody child’ is Macduff covered with the blood of the untimely ripped womb of his mother.

4. “To know my deed, ’twere best not know myself.”

   • Macbeth is stating that it would be better if he was completely unaware of himself than to be conscious and think of the crime he had committed.

5. “Things without all remedy should be without regard: what’s done, is done.”

   • Lady Macbeth makes an effort to make him get over the guilt and fear he is experiencing due to the murder he has committed

6. We will proceed no further in this business. He hath honored me of late, and I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people, which would be worn now in their newest gloss, not cast aside so soon.

   • Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth that he wants nothing to do with killing them