Act 1 Quotes Flashcards
(17 cards)
“… is … and … is …”
“Fair is foul and foul is fair” Witch
“O … cousin, … gentleman” Duncan
“O valiant cousin, worthy gentleman” Duncan
“Why do you … me in … … ?”
“Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?” MB, to Ross
“So … and … a day I have not seen”
“So foul and fair a day I have not seen” MB just before meeting witches
“The … of darkness tell us … ”
“The instruments of darkness tell us truths” Banquo
“Present … are less than horrible … “
“Present fears are less than horrible imaginings” MB, he is more scared of his own (murderous) thoughts than anything
“Stars hide your … , let not … see my … and … desires”
“Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires”
“pall thee in the … smoke of … “ - “nor … peep through the … of the dark to cry “Hold, hold!”
“pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell … nor Heaven peep through the blanket of the dark to cry “Hold, hold!” LM soliloquy
“O never shall … that … see”
“O never shall sun that morrow see” LM abt Duncan
“Your … , my thane, is as a … where men may read … matters”
“Your face, my thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters” LM
“Look like the … … , but be the … …”
“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t” (Fair is foul link) LM
“who should against his … shut the door not bear the … myself”
feels guilty as host “who should against his murderer shut the door not bear the knife myself” MB soliloquy
MB describes Duncan - “his … will plead like …”
“his virtues will plead like angels” MB soliloquy
“I have no … to prick the sides of my … , but only … … “
“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only
vaulting ambition” MB soliloquy, ambition is his only motivator
What does MB first say to LM when saying he cannot go through with the murder.
“We will proceed no further in this business” MB to LM
What is LM’s response to Macbeth’s question “If we should fail?”
“We fail?” LM
What is the last line of Act 1?
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know” MB
