Macbeth - Essay Quotes Flashcards
(26 cards)
Act 1 Scene 3 - What does Macbeth say to the witches following their prophecy? It indicates his eagerness and temptation growing
MACBETH’S RECKLESS AMBITION:
“Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more”
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“By Sinel’s death, I know I am thane of Glamis”
Act 1 Scene 3 - Internal soliloquy where Macbeth contemplates the fantasy of killing Duncan.
RECKLESS AMBITION:
“My thought, who murder yet is but fantastical…”
Act 1 Scene 3 - what is the line that Macbeth says as he questions what is truly real and brews his psychological turmoil?
RECKLESS AMBITION:
“And nothing is, But what is not”
Act 1 Scene 5 - What does Lady Macbeth first question about Macbeth’s ambition?
RUTHLESS AMBITION:
“Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend to it”
Act 1 Scene 5 - what does Lady Macbeth say the consequence of Ambition is? Loss of character
CONSEQUENCE OF AMBITION:
“The illness should attend to it”
Act 1 Scene 5 - In an attempt to become more ruthless in her ambition, what does LM say for the spirits to do?
RUTHLESS AMBITION:
“Unsex me here”
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“…fill me from crown to toe top full of direst cruelty; make thick my blood…”
Act 1 Scene 5 - After the death of King Duncan, what is the visual imagery LM uses to indicates her growing evil?
RUTHLESS AMBITION:
“Thick night”
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“…dunnest smoke of hell”
Act 1 Scene 7 - what visual imagery does Macbeth use to describe the consequence and tragedy of ambition?
CONSEQUENCE OF AMBITION:
“Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself, And falls on the other”
Act 1 Scene 7 - what does LM say to illustrate her ruthless nature and loss of maternal/warmth within her? In reference to a babe
“tis to love the babe that milks me”
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“Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash’d the brains out”
Act 3 Scene 1 - what is the metaphor Macbeth utilises to illustrate the good nature of morals and character?
“…eternal jewel”
Act 3 Scene 4 - what is the metaphor and visual imagery that Macbeth uses to show that he far beyond return? His ambition taken him too far
“I am in blood, Stepped in so far that should I wade no more”
Act 4 Scene 1 - what does Macbeth say to communicate the idea that he will do whatever it takes to get what he wants? Heart will lead him to deed
“The very firstlings of my heart shall be, The firstlings of my hand”
Act 1 Scene 1 - what do the witches chant at the beginning of the play that works to set the tone in reference to weather?
“In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”
Act 1 Scene 1 - what was the fricative that the witches use to indicate the theme of appearance vs reality?
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair”
Act 1 Scene 5 - what is the personification that LM says to indicate how she will manipulate Macbeth (in influence of the supernatural)?
“…pour my spirits in thine ear; and chastise with the valour of my tongue”
Act 1 Scene 5 - when Macbeth first arrives home to his wife, LM says what repetition of words that align her with the actions of the witches?
“Great Glamis! Worthy Cawdor! Greater than both…”
Act 1 Scene 5 - when Lady Macbeth reads Macbeth letter, what does she claim the witches words have done for her? What has it made her realise?
“Thy letters have transported me…”
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“The future in the instant”
Act 2 Scene 1 - what is the allusion Macbeth says that discusses witch craft and the idea of temptation for the manipulation of the witch’s prophecies?
“Pale Hectate’s offerings, and wither’d murder”
Act 3 Scene 4 - when seeing Banquo, what is the ironic line he mentions regarding his evil actions?
“Thou canst not say that I did it; never shake Thy gory locks at me”
Act 3 Scene 4 - Macbeth has a realisation that his ambition may have taken him too far. What is the line that shows this? What symbolism indicates that Macbeth thinks he’s being watched?
“It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood”
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“By magots pies and choughs and rooks brought forth, The secret’st man of blood”
Act 4 Scene 1 - what is the repetition that the witches use when seeing Macbeth and bring fourth more prophecies?
“Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff”
Act 5 Scene 1 - as LM begins to go crazy, what is the line she says that symbolises her growing guilt and madness?
“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!”
Act 1 Scene 5 - what is the simile/metaphor LM uses to show how the pair must act? Appearance vs reality
“Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under’t”
Act 4 Scene 1 - what is the main prophecy that the witches give Macbeth near the end of the play that makes him believe that he is invincible? Example of witches equivocative
“The power of man, for none of woman born, Shall harm Macbeth”
