Macbeth Quotes Flashcards
(16 cards)
“Art not without ambition but without the illness should attend it” - Lady Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 5)
Foreshadows that LM will manipulate Macbeth later on in the play as she calls his innocence an illness
“This even-handed justice commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice to our own lips” - Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 7)
Soliloquy
Foreshadows: Macbeth’s actions are haunting him already
Theme:
- Guilt
- Morality
“Fair is foul, foul is fair” - The witches (Act 1 Scene 1)
Alliteration
Repetition
Motif: deception is a concept repeated throughout the play - the words foul and fair are also repeated by Macbeth
- Quote suggests one winner and one loser / something good is bad, something bad is good
Themes:
- Supernatural
- Appearance VS reality
“So fair and foul a day I have not seen” - Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 3)
Alliteration
Motif
Paradox
Supporting evidence to quote from the witches
Theme:
Supernatural
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know” - Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 7)
Alliteration
Motif
Themes:
- Appearance vs reality
- Guilt
- Futility of life
“O nation miserable with an untitled tyrant, bloody sceptre” - Macduff (Act 4 Scene 3)
Foreshadowing: battle between Macduff and Macbeth
Theme:
- Guilt
- Futility of life
“There’s no art to finding the mind’s construction in the face” - Duncan (Act 1 Scene 4)
Foreshadowing: Duncans easiness to be deceived
Theme:
- Appearance VS reality
“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent underneath” - Lady Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 5)
Allusion
Theme:
Appearance VS Reality
Gender Roles
“Let not light see my black and deep desires” - Macbeth
Foreshadowing
Theme:
Appearance VS Reality
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hands” - Macbeth
Allusion
Theme:
Guilt
“A little water clears us of this deed” - Lady Macbeth
Foreshadowing
Motif
Theme:
Futility of life
“I could not say Amen” - Macbeth
Theme:
- Guilt
- Tyranny
“Out, Damned Spot, Out” - Lady Macbeth
Repetition
Motif
Theme:
- Guilt
“Speak, I charge you” - Macbeth
Macbeth arguing against Supernatural Power to Witches
- Provides evidence to the Great Chain of Being (God, King, Thanes, People, ECT.)
“Is this a dagger which I see before me?” - Macbeth
Imagery
Foreshadowing
Allegory
Theme:
- Supernatural
“Unsex me here” - Lady Macbeth
Theme:
Gender Roles
