Macbeth Quotes Flashcards
Who said “fair is foul and foul is fair”?
The 3 Witches.
What quote talks about Macbeth having his first hallucination?
“Is this a dagger, handle towards my hand?”
“The moon is down…”
Pathetic Fallacy.
“Yet I would not sleep; merciful powers, restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature gives way to in repose.”
Banquo is having nightmares. Foreshadows Lady Macbeth and Macbeth having lack of sleep.
“Our will became the servant to defect…”
Foreshadows Macbeth’s betrayal.
“I Dream’s last night of the three weird sisters; To you they have show’s some truth.”
Macbeth is afraid of what the witches have said.
“Come, let me clutch thee.”
Macbeth is willing to kill.
“Proceeding from the heat oppressed brain?”
Macbeth accepting that he is hallucinating.
“The curtain’d sleep…”
Macbeth says that his sleep is being affected.
“Balm of hurt minds…”
Metaphor of mental suffering.
“I am afraid to think…”
Macbeth is fearful of what is happening.
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”
Can the sea wash the stain of regicide away from Macbeth. An example of water imagery.
“My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white.”
Lady Macbeth is emasculating Macbeth. She calls him weak.
“A little water…”
Repititon of Water-Juxtaposition.
“Your constancy hath left you unattended.”
Suggests that Macbeth is weak. Emasculation.
