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Macbeth quotes
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- 1Witches statement in the opening scene which encapsulates their peculiar, obscure view on the world.“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”
- 2Praise given to Macbeth for his victory in Battle.“For Brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name-“
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- 5The witches refer to themselves as this.“The weird sisters”
- 6Banquo’s reaction to the witches proves how they look like unnatural, ungodly creatures.“ They look not like the ‘inhabitants of the earth”
- 7This is part of the first prophecy of the witches. It ignites Macbeth’s ambition and develops his murderous intentions.“All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!”
- 8Macbeth’s response to the witches prophecy suggests he has already considered being king. Banquo asks him about his reaction.“Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear things that sound so fair?”
- 9Banquo warns Macbeth about the witches deceptive nature and how they could be purposely misleading them by telling grains of truth to further cover up their deceiving nature.“...win us with honest trifles to betray’s in deepest consequence”
- 10Duncan, naively, reflects how it is very difficult to know what a man is thinking by simply looking at his face.“There’s no art to find the minds construction in the face.”
- 11Macbeth pleads that no one will see his true murderous intentions.“Stars, hide your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
- 12Lady Macbeth desires Macbeth to become King. However she fears his nature may be too kind to commit murder.“Yet I do fear thy nature;
It is too full o’th’milk of human kindness” - 13Lady Macbeth decides that she will murder Duncan so prays upon the evil spirits to come and make her less feminine and give her the power to commit regicide.“Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here”
- 14Lady Macbeth advises Macbeth to adorn a mask to hide his true intentions.“Look like the innocent flower but be the sergeant under’t.”
- 15Lady Macbeth portrays her determination to Macbeth as she explains she would kill her own child, she is so adamant that this murder is the only way of Macbeth becoming King.“I would...have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums
and dash’d the brains out.” - 16In Macbeth’s soliloquy he admits the only true reason for wanting to commit regicide is his own...“vaulting ambition”
- 17Macbeth attempts to tell Lady Macbeth that he no longer wants to commit regicide.“We shall proceed no further in this business”
- 18Lady Macbeth assures Macbeth that if he has courage, they will not fail in murdering Duncan.“But screw your courage to the sticking place and we’ll not fail.”
- 19Macbeth’s conscience is clearly troubled as he hallucinates the image of a dagger.“Is this a dagger which I see before me...”
- 20Lady Macbeth explains why she could not murder Duncan.“Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t.”
- 21Macbeth realizes the gravity of his crime as he cannot pray.“I could not say ‘amen’”
- 22Macbeth again realizes that his troubled mind will forever be tormented by what he has done.“Macbeth does murder sleep- the innocent sleep”
- 23Lady Macbeth proves her naivety as she advises Macbeth that they should wash the blood from their hands and they will be innocent of their crime.“A little water clears us of this deed.”
- 24Banquo has increasing suspicions about Macbeth and the role he played in Duncan’s murder.“I fear thou played’st most foully for’t.”
- 25Lady Macbeth knows now that they have risked everything in murdering Duncan and it has ultimately destroyed them.Nought’s had, all’s spent”
- 26The witches last prophecy encourages Macbeth to order the murder of Macduff’s family.“Beware Macduff;
Beware the Thane of Fife. - 27Lady Macbeth has lost her mind with guilt.“Out, damn’d spot! Out, I say!”
- 28Macbeth believes that life is ultimately Insignificant depicting his weary state of mind.“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
- 29A description of Macduff that seems him noble and honorable.“Worthy Macduff”
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