Macbeth: Macbeth Quotes Flashcards
“Stars hide…”
“Stars, hide your fire, let not light see my black and deep desires”
Emphasises his ambition to become king
Theme of light and dark
Links to the thought that kings were appointed by God, and this is a great sin
“False face…”
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know”
Links to “look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent underneath it”
“Fair is foul”
“will all great…”
“will all great Neptunes ocean wash this blood clean from my hands”
Metaphor for his guilt, and he questions himself and answers immediately
Lady Macbeth in act five scene one mirrors this later on
“There is none…”
“There is none, but he whose being do I fear”
Talking about Banquo and what he knows about the witches
“Unsealed him…”
Unsealed him from the nave to the chaps”
Shows how he is violent and a hero
Set the feeling for Macbeth at the start
“Dear…”
“Dearest…”
“Dear wife”
“Dearest partner of greatest”
Sees her as equal, and how he views her at the start on his partner
“O full…”
“Oh full of scorpions is my mind”
Shows his evil and his dark side and desires that his mind is possessed by dark thoughts”
“Sleep no…”
“Sleep, no more Macbeth does murder sleep”
Shows his immediate guilt following the murder of the king.
Shows his fear of his consequences due to his actions
What is Macbeth referred to near the end of the play?
A tyrant
“Is this a…”
“is this a dagger, which I see before me”
It is a rhetorical question to demonstrate how he has conflict in his mind right up until the murder of Duncan.
He is questioning his sanity, and unsure whether the dagger is a hallucination or supernatural.
Foreshadows his murder
