Macbeth Flashcards
(12 cards)
Duncan, talking about thane of Cawdor
“He was a gentleman whom I built / an absolute trust”
Duncan talking about Malcolm becoming heir
We will establish our estate upon / our eldest Malcolm
Duncan willing to reward people
“Signs of noble mess like stars shall shine / on all deservers”
Malcolm talking about macbeth
(Contrast innocence)
Offer(ing) up a weak, poor, innocent lam / t’appease an angry god”
Malcolm worrying for scotlands future
I think our country sinks beneath the yoke / it weeps it bleeds
Macduff patriotism towards Scotland
“Bleed, bleed, poor country / great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure / for goodness dare not check thee”
Macduff having a rant about being a bad king
“Fit to govern? / no not to live - o nation miserable / with an untitled tyrant, bloody sceptered / when shall thou see wholesome days again.”
Macduff talking about malcolms supposed greed
presenting greed & unchecked ambition as ban monarch qualities.
And predicting Macbeths death
“Boundless intemperance / in nature is a tyranny; it hath been / Th’untimely emptying of the happy throne / and fall of many kings. “
Lady Macbeth talking to Macbeth sobre ambition
“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t”
Fun quote!
“Yet ido fear thy nature. It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness”
MACDUFF FAM DEAD
“All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O hell kite! All? What, all my pretty chickens and their dam in one fell swoop?”
Witchy witchy cast a spelly
“Fair is fowl and fowl is fair, hover through the fog and filthy air. “
