English Lit Macbeth Quotes Flashcards
(8 cards)
Ambition quotes
“ art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it” Macbeth has not been able to cross moral Boundry
“ put on the vaulting ambition, which overleaps itself and falls” a horse jumps too far and collapses. He knows ambition will get out of hand once be give in
“ restraining me, the cursed, thought that nature gives way to in response” how far would Banquo have gone if Macbeth had not acted first
Bad supernatural quotes
“ when shall we three meet again and Thunder lightning or in the rain?”
“ double double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble” Macbeth troubles will WS. Discussed from audience fits into stereotype
“ supernatural soliciting cannot be ill cannot be good” aware of dangers goes against this
“ come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts” Lady Macbeth aspirants to visit her and make her cold-blooded killer
Good supernatural
“ who is virtues will plead like angels, trumpet tongued” my best talks about Duncans murder
“ gentle heavens” Mcduff, asking for God’s help for battle with Macbeth
Gender and power quotes
“ are you a man?” not being violent, so he is emasculated.
“ a soldier, and afeard” lady macbeth to macbeth
“ dashed the brains out” lm abt baby
“ I must also feel it as a man” macduff
“ play the woman with mine eyes” women linked with tears and weakness
Guilt quotes
“ blood on your hands” guilty of something
“ I heard a voice, cry sleep no more Macbeth does murder sleep” neither of them can sleep from this point
“ we’ll all great Neptunes ocean wash this blood clean from my hand” m after d
“ a little water clears us of this deed” lm
“ out damn spot will these hands never be clean?” Lm
Fate vs free will quotes
“ disdaining f fortune” fated to lose, but he turned the tide of battle with his bravery
“ if chance will have me King by chance to make round me without my stir”
“ beware McDuff, none of women, born, shallow Macbeth Macbeth she’ll never vanquished be until group Birnamwood to heightened in the hills she’ll come against him”
Mingship vs tyranny
Natural world reacts to Duncan’s death is unnatural ways horses eat eachother owl kills falcon day as dark as nught
Duncan- “sainted” “gracious” “great king”
“ the lords appointed temple” Duncan body
Macbeth- “brave macbeth” “worthy gentleman”
“Accursed” “devil” “fiend of Scotland “ “TYRANT”
“Those he commands move only in command nothing in love”
Appearance vs reality wuotes
Fair is foul and foul is fair-things on what they seem
“ so foul and fair a day I have not seen “ he’s connected to the witches snd their deceptions
“ look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it”
“ fair and noble hostess” dunacn to LM
“ or art thou, but a dagger of the mind” bloody dagger
