Macbeth quotes

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fair is foul and foul is fair
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fair is foul and foul is fair
Act 1, Scene 1 - Witches - paradox - supernatural
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O valiant cousin, worthy gentleman
Act 1, Scene 2 - Duncan - bloodshed is revelled in - brutality a virtue
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So foul and fair a day I have not seen
Act 1, Scene 3 - Macbeth - opening line - paradox similar to witches - potential for supernaturalness
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You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so
Act 1, Scene 3- Macbeth - Witches = supernatural and transgressive of gender
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Thou shalt get Kings, though thou be none
Act 1, Scene 3 - Third Witch - prophecy - Banquo
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Why do you dress me in borrow'd robes?
Act 1, Scene 3 - Macbeth to Ross - disbelief of prohpecy becoming true - theatrical imagery
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The instruments of darkness tell us truths
Act 1, Scene 3 - Banquo - less trustworthy of witches - calm and sceptical
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Speak, I charge you!
Act 1, Scene 3 - Macbeth - imperative - witches fail to obey - lack of control? - argues against supernatural powers
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Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires
Act 1, Scene 4 - Macbeth (aside) -
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Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here
Act 1, Scene 5 - Lady Macbeth - similar to witches - supernatural relations - transgression of gender - imperatives - urgency - desperation - recurrence of 'un': cannot undo actions
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Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hellAct 1, Scene 5 - Lady Macbeth - light/dark imagery - Hellish imagery - guilt - shroud for dead bodies - concealment - conspiracy - relates to Macbeth's 'Stars hide your fires...' - femme fataleLook like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under'tAct 1, Scene 5 - Lady Macbeth - religious imagery - Adam and Eve - sin against God - regicide - deception - conspiracy -transgressive femme fataleBloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague th'inventorAct 1, Scene 7 - Macbeth - fears moral consequences - humility - psychological stateVaulting ambitionAct 1, Scene 7 - Gothic ambition - fatal flaw of tragic hero - only motive to kill - realises it is untrustworthyThere's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all outAct 2, Scene 1 - Banquo - Religious imagery - dark imageryIs this a dagger which I see before meAct 2, Scene 1 - Macbeth - visions - horror image - two interpretations: dagger of Macbeth's imagination OR conjured by the Witches to spur on Macbeth to kill Duncan - ambiguity of supernaturalI have thee not, and yet I see thee stillAct 2, Scene 1 - Macbeth dagger soliloquy - contradictions like the WitchesHad he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done'tAct 2, Scene 2 - Lady Macbeth - indicates she has some conscience - not purely evilI could not say 'Amen'Act 2, Scene 2 - Macbeth - Amen means 'so be it' in Hebrew - cannot ask for anything given his sin - guiltMacbeth shall sleep no moreAct 2, Scene 2 - Macbeth thinks he heard a voice cry 'sleep no more!' - accepts danger of sleep when he is to be king - insomnia - erratic and tyrannical behaviourThe devil himself could not pronounce a title more hateful to mine earAct 5, Scene 7 - Young Siward - religious imagery - hatred for Macbeth publicly knownThis dead butcher and his fiend like queenAct 5, Scene 8 - Malcolm - butcher: someone who kills with no remorse or regret or reason - fiend - evil and immoral, capable of enchanting victims into a false sense of securityOut damned spot: out I sayAct 5, Scene 1 - Lady Macbeth - sleepwalking scene - manifestation of Duncan's blood - guilt - madness - like madwoman in the attic in Jane Eyre and Lucy's inability to sleep in DraculaBeware MacduffAct 4, Scene 1 - First apparition - possible threat of MacduffNone of woman born shall harm MacbethAct 4, Scene 1 - Second apparition (Bloody child) - comforts Macbeth but has double meaning - Macduff born Caesarean - Macduff can kill himMother's womb untimely ripp'dAct 5, Scene 8 - Macduff confirming threatuntil Great Birnham wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against himAct 4, Scene 1 - Third apparition (crowned child) - branches cut down and used as camouflage used by the English led by Siward and Malcolm, Duncan's sonSomething wicked this way comesAct 4, Scene 1 - Second witch - their own creation - Macbeth now comes LOOKING FOR THEM - supernaturalWhen shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?Act 1, Scene 1 - First witch - Pathetic fallacy - connections to dark weather - dark imagery - supernatural - dark exposition - tragedy - conspiracysecret, black, and midnight hags!Act 4, Scene 1 - Macbeth - arrogant command to the Witches - contrasts Act 1, Scene 3 where he addresses them with shock and surpriseWe have scotch'd the snake, not killed itAct 3, Scene 2 - Macbeth - worried about threat (Banquo) - snake is the threat to his kinship - religious imagery - snake temptsO, full of scorpions is my mindAct 3, Scene 2 - Macbeth - the fact Banquo and Fleance still live is like the sting of a scorpion

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