Key quotes

Key quotes

1. "Out, damned spot! out, I say!" (Act V, Scene I).

   • Lady Macbeth during her sleep walks
     • Sees blood (trying to wash away sins)

2. "All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." (Act V, Scene I)

   • Links to Neptune's oceans
   • "Little hand" Innocent and sweet context which is very unlike Lady Macbeth

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

   • Says it to himself
   • At first he wants to let fate take its course

4. The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap

   • Macbeth isn't content to wait around for "chance" to intervene.

5. "Come, let me clutch thee" In Macbeth's solioquy

   • it sounds a lot like he doesn't have a choice.

6. "I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other"

   • Macbeth is telling Lady Macbeth about how he has no intention of wanting to kill King Duncan