Macbeth - Key Characters and Quotes - created from Mind Map

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Macbeth

Lady Macbeth

Duncan

Banquo

Macduff

The Witches

MACBETH "[Aside] If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir." (1.3.)

" Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires " (1.4)

"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. " (2.1)

"A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? " (2.1)

"My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man" (1.3)

"Life's but a walking 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)

"Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature? " (1.3)

"Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels," (1.7)

"So foul and fair a day I have not seen." (1.3)

"False face must hide what the false heart doth" (1.7)

"Bring forth men-children only, For thy undaunted mettle should compose Nothing but males. " (1.7)

"But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come." (1.7)

"She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word. " (5.5)

"Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand?" (2.2)

"Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it." (1.5)

" look like th' innocent flower, But be the serpent under't." (1.5)

"This is the very painting of your fear. This is the air-drawn dagger which you said Led you to Duncan." (3.4)

"That I may pour my spirits in thine ear And chastise with the valoor of my tongue" (1.5)

"Come, 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)

"Make thick my blood. Stop up th' access and passage to remorse," (1.5)

"Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall," (1.5)

"Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark," (1.5)

"Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since?" (1.7)

"I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out," (1.7)

"Out, damned spot; out, I say. " (5.1)

"But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine On all deservers" (1.4)

" There's no art/ To find the mind's construction in the face." (1.4)

" Fair and noble hostess, We are your guest to-night." (1.6)

"That he seems rapt withal. To me you speak not. If you can look into the seeds of time, " (1.3)

"and I fear Thou played'st most foully for't" (3.1)

"Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner? " (1.3)

"All 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)

"Let me find him, Fortune, And more I beg not." (5.6)

"I shall do so, But I must also feel it as a man." (4.3)

"Hail, King! for so thou art. Behold, where stands Th' usurper's cursèd head. The time is free." (5.8)

"All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter! […] Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none." (1.3)

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air. " (1.1)

"I’ll drain him dry as hay. Sleep shall neither night nor day" (1.3)