Macbeth quotes

Macbeth quotes

1. Act 1

   • Scene 1
     • FW: When shall we three meet again? In thunder lightning or in rain?
       • Pathetic Fallacy
     • AW: Fair is foul and foul is fair, hover through the fog and filthy air
       • Contradictions and air of filth suggests that they are going to turn Macbeth's life upside down
   • Scene 2
     • Ross: The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict, till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof
       • Bellona was Roman goddess of war
       • Lapp'd = suit of armour
       • Macbeth is compared to a god of war by Ross
   • Scene 3
     • M: Would they had stayed
       • Wants to learn more about the witches' interesting proophecies
     • M: This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good
       • Torn between the option of killing and not killing Duncan
   • Scene 4
     • M: Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires, the eye wink at the hand.
       • Wants to remove himself from the natural order
   • Scene 5
     • LM: Yet I do fear thy nature, it is too full oth milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way
       • She sees Macbeth as to nice to commit the act
   • Scene 7
     • LM: I have given suck and know how tender it is to love the babe that milks me: I would, whiile it was smiling in my face, have pluck'd my nippe from his boneless gums and dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this
       • She wouldn't have broken the promise

2. Act 2

   • Scene 1
     • M: Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse the cxurtain's sleep witchcraft celebrates pale Hecate's off'rings and wither'd murder, alarum'd by his sentinel the wolf
       • This will be an act against nature
       • Associating himself with evil
   • Scene 2
     • M: But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'? I had most need of blessing and 'Amen' stuck in my throat
       • Lost connection to God
     • Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood from my hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red
       • This sin will never be forgiven
     • A little water clears us of this deed. How easy is it then?
       • Irony
   • Scene 3
     • MD: O gentle lay, 'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak. The repetition in a woman's ear would murder as it fell
       • Irony level 1000000000
     • LM: Help me hence, ho!
       • Faint pretence so that Macbeth doesn't give away anything