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Macbeth final quotes

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"All hail Macbeth, hail to thee Thane of Glamis/ All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor/ All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter" (1.3.46-48)
Context- Witches to Macbeth before thinking about killing Duncan
T/M- Fate vs. FreeWill (THEME)
Significance- The witches are tricking Macbeth and choosing his fate for him.
"Oftentimes, to win us to our harm,/ The instruments of darkness tell us truths;/ Win us with honest trifles, to betray's/ In deepest consequence" (1.3.122-125)
Banquo talking to Macbeth, Banquo is warning Macbeth
T/M- Ambition or light vs. darkness
Macbeth is struggling with inner ambition and is contemplating murder
"There's no art/ To find the mind's construction in the face" (1.4.11-12)
Context- Duncan talking to the room (Duncan officially naming Malcolm heir in front of witnesses → give Macbeth an obstacle but also gives him a scapegoat (Frame Malcolm for murder of Duncan)
T/M- Appearance vs. Reality, you can't tell what a person is thinking on the inside
Significance- Duncan is too trusting, which is his tragic flaw, leading to his death
"...yet do I fear thy nature,/ Is too full o'th'milk of human kindness/... Thou wouldst be great,/ Art not without ambition, but without/ The illness should attend it," (1.5.14-18)
Context- Lady Macbeth to herself talking about how she is worried if he has what it takes to take the thrown. Thinking he is too kind for this duty.
T/M- Ambition
Significance- Shows how killing Duncan has destroyed everything and caused total destruction
"look like th'innocent flower,/ But be the serpent under't" (1.5.63-64)
Lady Macbeth telling Macbeth not to look guilty in front of Duncan.
THEME Appearance vs Reality- Macbeth has to act like he is fine and nice on the outside, but on the inside he has to kill anyone in his way.
Significance- Shows how Macbeth's intentions are starting to change
"I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only/ Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself/ And falls on the other" (1.7.25-28)
Context- Macbeth debating with weather or not to kill Duncan
T/M- Ambition THEME
Significance- Ambition is not a reason to kill Duncan
"Will all great Neptune's oceans wash this blood/ Clean from my hand? No: this my hand will rather/ The multitudinous seas incarnadine," (2.2.63-65)
Context- Macbeth talking to himself after he kills Duncan. Know the difference between this and act 5 version.
T/M- Ties to MOTIF of BLOOD.The blood is "staining his hands with guilt (no actual blood is there)
Significance- Macbeth realizes his guilt will never go away
"...Where we are/ There's daggers in men's smiles; the near'er in blood,/ The nearer bloody." (2.3.132-134)
Context- Donald bain talking to Malcolm after Murder
T/M- Appearance vs. Reality (THEME), how people appear vs. how they really are
Significance- Shows that they can no longer trust anyone or anything anymore after what happened.
"...Things without all remedy/ Should be without regard; what's done is done," (3.2.11-12) Lady Macbeth
Context- Lady Macbeth getting Macbeth to chill, he can not un murder Duncan.
T/M-Ambition
Significance- You need to relax, what you did already happened, we need to move on from it.
"We have scorched the snake, not killed it," (3.2.13).
Context- Macbeth talking to lady Macbeth
T/M- Ambition THEME
Significance- Their work is not done until their power is completely safe. Snake → Duncan and Banquo, they are not safe until Banquo is dead
"There the grown serpent lies; the worm that's fled/ Hath nature that in time will venom breed,/ No teeth for the present" (3.4.29-31)
Context- Macbeth to the murderer after learning Fleance survived
T/M- Fate vs. Free Will THEME
Significance- Eventually Fleance will become dangerous to Macbeth
"I am in blood/ Stepped in so far that should I wade no more,/ Returning were as tedious as go'er" (3.4.136-138)
Context- Macbeth to Lady Macbeth, after he sees Banquo's ghost.
T/M- Ties the THEME Ambition.
Significance- Macbeth has lost ALL good intent and is at the point of no return. Is now going to kill everyone in his way.
"And you all know, security/ Is mortals' chiefest enemy" (3.5.32-33)
Context- Hecate to the Witches after finding out what they have done to Macbeth.
T/M- Ambition if he is over-confident his ambition will blind him
Significance- Witches need to make Macbeth feel invincible Security=Over Confidence
"Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth: beware Macduff/ Beware the Thane of Fife" (4.1.69-71)
"Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn/ The power of man, for none of woman born/ Shall harm Macbeth" (4.1.78-80)
"Macbeth shall never vanquished be until/ Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane hill/ Shall come against him" (4.1.91-93)
Context- Said by the three witches after they learned they need to make Macbeth feel invincible
T/M- THEME FATE VS. FREE WILL.
significance- The witches are feeding his ambition, convincing him he is invincible. The witches give him 3 apparitions, giving Macbeth prophecies
"From this moment,/The very firstlings of my heart shall be/ The firstlings of my hand." (4.1.145-147)
Context- Macbeth talking to himself (Aside).
Right after learning that Macduff fled to England
T/M -Ambition/Kingship/Leadership Theme
Significance- Whatever he feels, he will act on without thought. No good intent and is full tyrant.
"Here's the smell of blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." (5.1.42-43)
Context- Lady Macbeth is sleepwalking (completely mentally gone)
T/M- TIES TO MOTIF OF BLOOD she is trying to wash the blood off her hands and it won't come off.
Significance- She has an overwhelming guilt fall over her from killing Macduff and is
"What's done/ Cannot be undone" (5.1.58) Lady Macbeth
Context- Lady Macbeth to herself sleep walking
T/M- Ambition
Significance- realizing they destroyed everything. No coming back. Shows guilt she's dealing with at the end vs. beginning.
Foul whispr'ings are abroad; unnatural deeds/ Do breed unnatural troubles; infected minds/ To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets" (5.1.61-63)
Context- Doctor talking to the women while they watch Lady Macbeth sleepwalking
T/M- sleep or Mature and the Natural World Natural state is disturbed
Significance- It's more of a general thing that everyone now hears rumors about Macbeth killing people (is affecting a lot of people)
"Let every soldier hew him down a bough,/ And bear't before him; thereby shall we shadow/ The numbers of our host and make discovery/ Err in report of us" (5.4.4-7)
-Malcolm talking to his Soldiers As they are attacking the castle`
-Reality was hidden from Macbeth until it was too late
-Malcolm tells soldiers to hold branches when marching→Looks like forest is attacking the castle
-Fate vs Free Will (Macbeth's interpretation)
"Macduff was from his mother's womb/ Untimely ripped." (5.8.15-16)
Context- Macduff talking to Macbeth about how he will kill him. True meaning of the 3rd prophecy
T/M- Fate vs. Free Will, interpreting his fate
Significance- After this, he realizes Macduff can kill Macbeth. since he was not naturally born from women. Macbeth realizes the witches tricked him.
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