Macbeth characters and themes Flashcards
(7 cards)
Macbeth Quotation
-Brave Macbeth
-So foul and fair a day I have not seen
-Unseamed him from the knave to chaps
-Is this a dagger I see before me? The handle towards my hand?
-Life is but a walking Shadow…signifying nothing
-Full of scorpions in my mind
-Stars hide your fires. Let light not see my black and deep desires
-I have no spurs to pick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition
-Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow (after hearing of LM death)
-Fruitless crown
-Never shake thy gory locks at me
-If chance will have me king, why chance may crown without my stir
-His host should against the murderer shut the door, nor bear the knife myself
-Amen stuck in my throat
-Sleep no more. Macbeth doth murder sleep
-Will all great Netunes Ocean wash this blood clean from my hands
-Blood will have blood
Lady Macbeth Quotations
-Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t
-Come you spirits… index me here
- Out damn spot. Out I say
-Whats done is done
-My hands are of your colour by I shame to wear a heart so white
-Too full of milk for human kindness
-You would be so much more the man
-Art not without ambition but without the illness that should attend it
-All the perfumes in Arabai cannot sweeten this little hand
The witches quotations
-Fair is foul and foul is fair
-Thunder lightning or in rain
-You should be women but your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so
-What are these so wither’d and so wild in their attire
-Double, double toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble
-Beware Macduff!
-Something wicked this way comes
-All hail Macbeth, though shall be king hereafter
Banquo quotations
-Nobel banquo
-What are these so wither’d and so wild in their attire
-Merciful powers restrain me in cursed thoughts
-I fear thou play’dst most foully fort
-‘Sits in Macbeth’s place’
-‘Never shake thy gory locks at me
-The instruments of darkness tell us truths
-Our fears in Banquo stick deep
Malcolm Quotations
-A weak, poor, innocent lamb to appease an angry god
-oh by whom
-Let us seek out some desolate spot and there were poor sad bosoms empty
-Dead butcher and his friend like queen
-This tyrant…was once thought honest
Macduff quotations
-O horror, horror, horror
-Bleed, bleed poor country. Great tyranny
-Let us hold fast the mortal sword and like good men
-My pretty chickens
-But I must feel it as a man
-My voice is in my sword
-Turn, hell-hound, turn!
Lenox quotations
Some say the earth was feverous and did shake