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macbeth Flashcards

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1 - Witches: “Fair is …

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“Fair is foul and foul is fair”

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1 - Bloody Captain: “Unseam’d …

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“Unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps”
“carved out his passage”
“they meant to bathe in reeking wounds”

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1 - Banquo: “he’s rapt …

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“he’s rapt withal”

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1 - Banquo: “the instruments of …

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“the instruments of darkness tell us truths; win us with honest trifles, to betrays in deepest consequence.”

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1 - Lady Macbeth: “I do fear …

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“I do fear thy nature - it is too full o’ the milk of human kindness”

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1 - Lady Macbeth: “Come you spirits …

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“Come you spirits … unsex me here … take my milk for gall”

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1 - Macbeth: “I have no spur …

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“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself”

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1 - Lady Macbeth: “I have given …

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“I have given suck and know how tender tis to love the babe that milks me”

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2 - Macbeth: “Art thou …

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“Art thou but a dagger of the mind”

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2 - Lady Macbeth: “Had he not …

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“Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had don’t”

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2 - Macbeth: “Macbeth does …

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“Macbeth does murder sleep … Macbeth shall sleep no more”

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2 - Macbeth: “Will all great …

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“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”

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2 - Donaldbain: “Where we are …

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“Where we are, there’s daggers in mens’ smiles.”

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3 - Macbeth: “Our fears …

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“Our fears in Banquo stick deep”

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3 - Lady Macbeth: “Tis safer to be …

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“Tis safer to be that which we destroy than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy”

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3 - Macbeth: “O, full …

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“O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!”

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3 - Macbeth: “Be innocent …

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“Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck”

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3 - Macbeth: “I am in blood …

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“I am in blood stepp’d in so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er”

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4 - Macbeth: “From this moment …

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“From this moment, the very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand”

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4 - Macbeth: “give to the …

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“give to the edge of the sword his wife, his babes”

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4 - Macduff: “each new morn, …

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“each new morn, new widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows strike heaven on the face”

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4 - Macduff: “But I must …

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“But I must also feel it as a man”

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4 - Macduff: “They were all …

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“They were all struck for thee”

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5 - Lady Macbeth: “Yet who would …

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“Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?”

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5 - Lady Macbeth: “All the perfumes …

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“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”

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5 - Angus: “Those who he commands …

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“Those who he commands, move only in command, nothing in love. Now does he feel his title hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief.”

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5 - Macbeth: “Tomorrow and …

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“Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day”

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5 - Macbeth: “It is a tale …

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“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”

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5 - Malcolm: “dead …

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“dead butcher and his fiend like queen”

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Macbeth quotes - act one
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  • “unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps and fixed his head upon our battlements”
  • “carved out his passage”
  • “stars hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires”
  • “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself”
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Macbeth quotes - act two
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  • “Art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain”
  • “Macbeth does murder sleep … Macbeth shall sleep no more”
  • “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”
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Macbeth quotes - act three
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  • “our fears in Banquo stick deep” “he hath a wisom that doth guide his valor”
  • “O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!”
  • “be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck”
  • “I am in blood stepp’d so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er”
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Macbeth quotes - act four
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  • “from this moment, the very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand”
  • “give to the edge of the sword his wife, his babes”
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Macbeth quotes - act five
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  • “she should have died hereafter”
  • “tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day”
  • “It is a tale told my an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”
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Lady Macbeth quotes - act one
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  • “I do fear thy nature - it is too full o’ the milk of human kindness”
  • “Come you spirits … unsex me here … take my milk for gall”
  • “Look like the innocent flower but be the sperpent under’t”
  • “I have given suck and know how tender tis to love the babe that milks me”
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Lady Macbeth quotes - act two
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  • “Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had don’t”
  • “A little water clears us of this deed”
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Lady Macbeth quotes - act three
(1)

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  • “Tis safer to be that which we destroy than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy”
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Lady Macbeth quotes - act five
(2)

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  • “Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?”
  • “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”
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Banquo quotes
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  • 1 - “he’s rapt withal” (about Macbeth)
  • 1 - “the instruments of darkness tell us truths; win us with honest trifles to betrays in deepest consequence”
  • 3 - “Thou hast it now … and I fear thou played’st most foully for it”
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Macduff quotes
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  • “each new morn, new widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows strike heaven on the face”
  • “Did you say all? All my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop”
  • “but I must also feel it like a man”
  • “They were all struck for thee”
    (all from Act 4)
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The witches quotes
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  • “fair is foul and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air”
  • “so withered and wild in their attire that look not th’ inhabitants o’ th’ earth” “devil” (said by Banquo)
    (both Act 1)
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Other quotes
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  • 2 - Donaldbain: “Where we are, there’s daggers in mens’ smiles”
  • 2 - Old man: “A falcon towering in her pride of place was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed”
  • 5 - Angus: “Those who he command, move only in command, nothing in love. Now does he feel his title hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief”
  • 5 - Malcolm: “dead butcher and his fiend like queen”
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