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Macbeth Quotes Flashcards

Learn quotes, themes, and where they are located in the play

1
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3 Witches are described as…

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‘weird sisters’

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Finish quote: ‘fair is ____ and foul is ____’
Who says quote
Tell me location of quote
Themes of quote

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‘fair is foul and foul is fair’
The 3 witches
Act 1 Scene 1
Evil, darkness, supernatural

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Finish quote: ‘thou shalt be ____ _________’
Who says quote
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Themes of quote

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‘thou shalt be king hereafter’
The Third Witch
Act 1 Scene 3
Ambition, supernatural, appearance vs reality

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Finish quote: ‘_____ me here’
Who says quote
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Themes of quote

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‘unsex me here’
Lady Macbeth
Act 1 Scene 5
Ambition, power, supernatural, appearance vs reality

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Finish quote: ‘Look like the th’________ ______ but be the _______ _____‘t’
Who says quote
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Themes of quote

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‘Look like the th’innocent flower but be the serpent under’t’
Lady Macbeth
Act 1 Scene 5
Ambition, power, supernatural, appearance vs reality

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Finish quote: ‘Is this a ______ I see ______ me?’
Who says quote
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Themes of quote

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‘Is this a dagger I see before me?’
Macbeth
Act 2 Scene 1
Supernatural, appearance vs reality, order vs disorder, ambition

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What does the bell ringing in Act 2 Scene 1 tell the actor playing the Macbeth do?

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Implicit stage direction
Tells actor to say final soliloquy and exit the stage to kill King Duncan

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Finish quote: ‘Will all great _______’s ocean wash this _____ _____ from my ____’
Who says quote
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Themes of quote

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‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand’
Macbeth
Act 2 Scene 2
Supernatural, ambition, power, appearance vs reality
Guilt
Relationship
How we get proverb today ‘caught red handed’ and ‘blood on his hands’

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Finish quote: ‘A ______ _____ clears us of this ____’
Who says quote
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Themes of quote

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‘A little water clears us of this deed’
Lady Macbeth
Act 2 Scene 2
Supernatural, ambition, power, appearance vs reality

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Finish quote: ‘We have ______‘d the snake not ____‘d it’
Who says quote
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Themes of quote

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‘We have scotch’d the snake, not kill’d it’
Macbeth
Act 3 Scene 2
Ambition, power, appearance vs reality

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Finish quote: ‘O, full of _________ is my ____’
Who says quote
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Themes of quote

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‘O, full of scorpions is my mind’
Macbeth
Act 3 Scene 2
Ambition, power, appearance vs reality

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Finish quote: ‘Be ________ of the _________, dearest _____’
Who says quote
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Themes of quote

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‘Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck’
Macbeth
Act 3 Scene 2
Ambition, power, appearance vs reality

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Finish quote: ‘This is the very ________ of your ____’
Who says quote
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Themes of quote

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‘This is the very painting of your fear’
Lady Macbeth
Act 3 Scene 4
Evil, supernatural, order vs disorder

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Finish quote: ‘_____ will have _____ ‘
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‘Blood will have blood’
Macbeth
Act 3 Scene 4
Evil, power, fear, karma

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Finish quote: ‘None of _____ born shall ____ M______ ‘
Who says quote
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‘None of woman born shall harm Macbeth’
Second Apparition (A bloody child) brewed by the Witches
Act 4 Scene 1
Power, Evil, Supernatural, Appearance vs Reality, Order vs Disorder

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Finish quote: ‘___, d_____ spot!’
Who says quote
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Themes of quote

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‘Out, damned spot!’
Lady Macbeth
Act 5 Scene 1
Evil, Power, Supernatural, Order vs Disorder

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Finish quote: ‘T_____, show ___ ____!’
Who says quote
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Themes of quote

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‘Tyrant, show thy face!’
Macduff
Act 5 Scene 7
Power, Evil, Ambition

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Finish quote: ‘Turn, ____-_____, turn!’
Who says quote
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Themes of quote

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‘Turn, hell-hound, turn!’
Macduff
Act 5 Scene 8
Power, Order vs Disorder , Evil

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‘____ is ____ and ___ is ____’

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‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’
Three Witches
Act 1 Scene 1
Supernatural, Witchcraft, Deception, Betrayal

20
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‘What ______ man is that’

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‘What bloody man is that’
King Duncan
Act 1 Scene 2
Violence

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‘Or have we _____ on the ______ ____ that takes the reason ________’

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‘Or have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner’
Banquo
Act 1 Scene 3
Hallucinogenic and Madness

22
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‘_______ is but what is ___’

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‘Nothing is but what is not’
Macbeth
Act 1 Scene 3
Deception, riddle-like

23
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‘____! can the _____ speak ____?’

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‘What! can the devil speak true?’
Banquo
Act 1 Scene 3

24
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‘False must ____ what the false _____ ____ know’

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‘False must hide what the false heart doth know’
Macbeth
Act 1 Scene 7
Seeming, deception, masking true intentions

25
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‘I ____ do all that may ______ a ___
Who _____ do ____ is ____’

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‘I dare do all that may become a man
Who dares do more is none’
Macbeth
Act 1 Scene 7
In conflict with Lady Macbeth
Macbeth’s morality is curt short
Perfect broken iambic pentameter

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‘To ____ the sides of my ______, but only ________ ________’

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‘To prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition’
Macbeth
Act 1 Scene 7
Anagnorisis
Macbeth recognises hamartia
Macbeth is greedy
Ambition

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‘Is this a ______ which I see ______ me’

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‘Is this a dagger which I see before me’
Act 2 Scene 1
Implicit stage direction
Madness, insecurity, paranoia

28
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‘___ very stones _____ of my __________’

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‘Thy very stones pry of my whereabout’
Macbeth
Act 2 Scene 1
Guilt, paranoia, evil, moral conscience, fear

29
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‘_____ no more! Macbeth does ______ sleep:’

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‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep:’
Macbeth
Act 2 Scene 2
Sleep
Moral conscience
Envying Duncan

30
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‘There’s _______ in men’s ______’

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‘There’s daggers in men’s smiles’
Donalbain
Act 2 Scene 3
Lack of trust
Violence, evil, deception
Free will

31
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‘Things bad _____ make ______ __________ by ___’

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‘Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill’
Macbeth
Act 3 Scene 2
Macbeth now seen as antagonist
> Journey of no return

32
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‘______, double ____ and ______’

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‘Double, double toil and trouble’
Witches
Act 4 Scene 1
Supernatural

33
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‘Something ______ this way _____’

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‘Something wicked this way comes’
Second witch
Act 4 Scene 1
Commedic + Ironic
Witches see evil

34
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‘How ___, you ______, ____ and ________ ____’

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How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!’
Macbeth
Act 4 Scene 1
No fear
Macbeth resolute
Masculinity
Confidence

35
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‘A ____ without a ____’

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‘A deed without a name’
Witches
Act 4 Scene 1
Supernatural - power of the witches
Macbeth has desperation: greed for outcome

36
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‘When our _______ do not, our _____ do make us ________’

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‘When our actions do not, our deeds do make us traitors’
Lady Macduff
Act 4 Scene 2
Dramatic Irony

37
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‘The _______
Must ________ to _______.’

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‘The patient
Must minister to himself.’
Doctor
Act 5 Scene 3
Referring to Lady Macbeth sleepwalking
Detachment from doctor
Theme of madness

38
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‘The _____ damn thee _____, ____ cream-_____ ____!’

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‘The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon!’
Macbeth
Act 5 Scene 3
Verbal attack

39
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‘Where ____‘__ thou that _____ look?’

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Where gott’st thou that goose look?’
Macbeth
Act 5 Scene 3
Macbeth = fragile and vulnerable and frightened
Macbeth is full of hysteria
At end of life + out of control

40
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‘I have almost ______ the _____ of _____’

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‘I have almost forgotten the taste of fears’
Macbeth
Act 5 Scene 5
Forgotten being afraid
Desensitized not afraid anymore

41
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‘She should have ____ _________’

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‘She should have died hereafter’
In Macbeth’s soliloquy
Act 5 Scene 5
Not convenient - should have died at another time
Macbeth seems unfazed by her death

42
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‘To-______ and __-morrow and __-______’

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‘To-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow’
In Macbeth’s soliloquy
Act 5 Scene 5
Iambic pentameter
Semantic field of time
Time running out life fragile

43
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‘___, ___ brief ______’

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‘Out,out brief candle’
In Macbeth’s soliloquy
Temporal marker
Symbolic - human lifespan about to be blown out
Moment of anagnorisis
Time is running out; drawing to a close

44
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‘Life’s like a _______ ______’

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‘Life’s like a walking shadow’
Means life is like a bad actor
Militaristic view of life
Wants the audience to have sympathy for him
Jacobean audience = no sympathy at all
Modern-day audience = feel a bit sorry for Macbeth

45
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‘I ____ a _______ life’

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‘I bear a charmed life’
Macbeth
Act 5 Scene 8
Tragedy of belief in witches
Macbeth lived protected life - supernatural idea
Misplaced bravery
Macbeth believed he is invincible but his isn’t

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