Macbeth Flashcards
What does “fair is foul and foul is fair” symbolise
ambiguity; links to Macbeth’s inner conflict
link between the supernatural and Macbeth. in act 1 scene 3 “so foul and fair a day I have not seen” causes discomfort amongst the audience.
Chiasmic structure: forshadows murkiness and confusion
Fricatives and rhythm: emphasises mystery
What is the witches prophecy
“All hail Macbeth thane of Glamis …. Thane of Cawdor …. who shalt be king hereafter”
Quotes from act 2 scene 1
“Come let me clutch thee”
“Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives”
“Is this a dagger I see before me”
“A dagger of the mind a false creation proceeding form the heat oppressed brain”
Key Macbeth quotes
“O, full of scorpions is my mind dear wife !” - paranoia A3 S2
“Brave Macbeth — Well he deserves that name” - noble warrior A1 S2
“Prithee, peace/I dare do all that may become a man” - guilty A1 S6
“Give to the edge o’ the sword his wife, his babes” - cruelty A5 S1
“Stay you imperfect speakers, tell me more” - ambition A1 S3
Key Lady Macbeth quotes
“When you durst do it, then you were a man” - manipulative A1 S7
“My hands are of your colour; but I shame/ To wear a heart so white” - Belittling A2S2
“What will these hands ne’er be clean?” - guilt/madness A5 S1
“Yet do I fear thy nature; is too full o’ the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way” - belief Macbeth I weak A1 S5
“Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here” - ambition/madness A1 S5
Key Duncan quotes
“Let me enfold thee / And hold thee to my heart” - kind A1 S4
“There’s no art / To find the mind’s construction in the face” - trusting A1 S4
“So clear in his great office” - a good king
Key Malcom quotes
“Wisdom plucks me / From over-credulous haste “ - Wise
“Delight / No less in truth than life”
Key Banquo quotes
“That dauntless temper of his mind” - brave A3 S1 Macbeth
“Nobel Banquo, / That hast no less deserved” - noble A1 S4 Duncan
“The instruments of darkness tell us truths, / Win us with honest trifles - to betrays’s” - wise A1 S3
Key Macduff quotes
“This noble passion, / Child of integrity” - noble
“I have no words: / My voice is in my sword” - a soldier A5 S4
“I must also feel it as a man” - emotional A5 S4
Key Witches quotes
“Instruments of darkness” - evil
“This supernatural soliciting / Cannot be ill, cannot be good” - ambiguous
“So withered and so wild” - strange
Theme of supernatural quotes
“You should be women / and get your beards forbid me to interpret” A1 S3 Banquo
“A dagger of the mind, a false creation” A2 S1 Macbeth
“dark night strangles the travelling lamp” A2 S4 Ross
“Is this a dagger I see before me” A2 S1 Macbeth
“Come seeling night / scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day” A3 S2 Macbeth
Theme of ambition quotes
“Letting ‘I dare not wait upon ‘I would’” A1 S7 LM
“I have no spur / to prick the sides of m intent, but only / vaulting ambition” A1 S7 Macbeth
“Look how our partner’s rapt” A1 S3 Banquo
“Thou hast it now: king” A3 S1 Banquo
“Out, out, brief candle!/ Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player” A5S5 Macbeth
Good and evil theme quotes
“This dead butcher and his fiend like queen” Macduff A5S9
“So foul and fair a day I have not seen” A1 S3 Macbeth
“The instruments of darkness tell us truths” A1 S3 Banquo
“dark night strangles the travelling lamp” A2 S4 Ross
Quotes for them of appearance vs reality
“Why do you dress me in borrowed robes” A1 S4 Macbeth
“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t” A1 S5 LM
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know” A1 S7 Macbeth
“Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,
And put a barren scepter in my gripe” A3S1 Macbeth
Act 1 Scene 1
The witches meeting and prophecy
