Macbeth Flashcards
(11 cards)
6 quotes for macbeth
. “a dagger which I see before me” metaphor “dagger” resembles his guilt. “the handle towards my hand?”
. “Let not light see my black and deep desires.” → Macbeth doesn’t want anyone to know how dark his ambitions really are.
. “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?”
. “I dare do all that may become a man” - he will do anything that is honorable for a man — but if someone dares to do more than that, they’re no longer truly a man but a murderer. He shows that he doesn’t want to kill Duncan.
. “I could not say ‘Amen’.”
6 quotes for lady macbeth
. “unsex me here”
. “Look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under’t.”
. “Out, damned spot!”
. “Perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”
. “Be so much more the man.”
. “When you durst do it, then you were a man” - You were only a real man when you dared to kill the king.
(She’s saying he’s not a man now because he’s hesitating.) this is the use of toxic masculinity
2 quotes for Duncan
. “O valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman!”
. “gentleman on whom I built An absolute trust.”
(Duncan reflects on the betrayal of the former Thane of Cawdor, foreshadowing Macbeth doing the same.)
3 quotes for malcom
.” Could mot fill up my lust”(testing macduff)
.” The tyrant”
. “Let greif convert to anger.”
3 quotes for the witches
. “Fair is foul, and foul is fair”- The line sets the tone for the play’s theme of moral ambiguity — right and wrong, good and evil, are no longer clear. The fricatives sound sneaky, sinister. Trochaic meter.
. “All hail, Macbeth!”
. “In thunder, lightning, or in rain?” (Using pathetic fallacy to scare the audience
3 quotes for macduff
.” O Scotland, Scotland!”
. “mother’s womb Untimely ripp’d.”(c section)
. “feel it as a man.”(means he should griefe but also get revenge, toxic masculinity).
3 quotes for banquo
. “O treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!”
. “The instruments of darkness tell us truths.” (Witches may use truth to deceive, demonstrating his insight into their manipulative nature.)
.”In the great hand of God I stand” - says after Duncan is killed. Banquo immediately aligns with divine justice, vowing to fight for truth and order.
2 quotes for lady macduff
. “Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.” ( she will stay and protect her child)
. “His flight was madness”
2 quotes for Macduffs son
. “Run away i pray you.”
. “My father is not dead, for all your saying.” (demonstrating his faith and innocence).
2 quotes for gentlewoman
. “That, sir, which I will not report after her.”
. “Most fast sleep.” (This is her talking about the strange actvities lady macbeth has been doing in her sleep. This shows her losing her mind).
1 quote for hecate
“To trade and traffic with Macbeth”- scolds the witches for dealing with Macbeth without her permission. Plosives almost suggests she is spitting at them
