Macbeth quotes Flashcards
Bloody Captain, talking about Macbeth’s bravery/savagery
(‘unseamed …)
‘unseamed him from the nave to the chaps and fixed his head upon our battlements.’
Banquo and Macbeth are seen as a ‘double act’
(‘they doubly …)
‘they doubly redoubled
strokes upon the foe’
Banquo notices that Macbeth is entranced the instant he hears the prophecies.
‘rapt withal’
Banquo is suspicious of the witches
(‘the instruments …)
‘the instruments of darkness…win us with honest trifles, to betray’s in deepest consequence.’
Macbeth debates whether the witches are ‘good’ or ‘ill’. If they are good, he questions why his …(‘seated heart …)
‘seated heart knock at my ribs, against the use of nature?’
Lady Macbeth, despairing of her husband’s ability to go through with the regicide: ‘Ye I do fear …
‘Ye I do fear thy nature; tis too full o’th milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way.’
Lady Macbeth calls on the dark spirits to help her: ‘unsex …
‘unsex me here, and fill me (with)
direst cruelty.’
Lady Macbeth urges Macbeth to conceal his dark thoughts: ‘Look like …
‘Look like th’innocent
flower, But be the serpent under’t.’
Macbeth understands his reasons for wanting to be King are wrong: ‘I have no spur …
‘I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, only vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself
Lady Macbeth brings up their dead child to persuade Macbeth to go ahead with the murder: ‘I have given …
‘I have given suck, and know how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me’
Lady Macbeth challenges Macbeth’s masculinity when he says he will not go through with the murder: ‘ When you …
‘ When you durst do it, then you were a man.’
Banquo makes it clear he will not do anything to harm his honour and loyalty to the King: ‘my bosom …
‘my bosom fanchis’d and allegiance clear’
Macbeth realises that hallucinating the dagger could be a sign of his stress: ‘a dagger …
‘a dagger of the mind, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain.’
Lady Macbeth admits the reason she could not kill Duncan herself is because he looks like her father: ‘Had he not …
‘Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had don’t.’
Macbeth begins to realise the dreadful consequences of the regicide: ‘Glamis has …
‘Glamis has murdered sleep and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more: Macbeth shall sleep no more.’
