Quotes Flashcards
(14 cards)
Guilt
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”
“O full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!”
“Out damned spot! Out, I say!”
Kingship
“His virtues will plead like angels” - macbeth acknowledge Duncan’s noble qualities - Shakespeare contrasts legitimate kingship with Macbeth’s tyrannical aspirations
“A dead butcher and his friend-like queen” - “butcher” implies senseless killing - reflects moral decay and illegitimacy of rule
“The king-becoming graces” - Malcom lists virtues for kingship - these qualities contrast with Macbeth’s tyrannical behaviour
Supernatural
“Fair is foul and foul is fair”
“Is this a dagger which I see before me”
“Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts”
Appearance vs reality
“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t”
“There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face”
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know”
Macbeth
“Is this a dagger I see before me”
“Brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name”
“I am in blood / stepped in do far I should wade no more” - Macbeth acknowledges he is too far into his crimes to stop, showing how power has corrupted him
“So foul and fair a day I have not seen” - Macbeth’s first words echo the witches, suggesting from the start he is linked with supernatural forces - paradox foreshadows moral conflict
Lady Macbeth
“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t”
“Unsex me here”
“Out damned spot! Out I say!”
Dr Jekyll
“Man is not truly one but truly two”
“I was slowly losing hold of my original better self”
“I bring the life of that unhappy Jekyll to an end”
Mr Hyde
“Trampled calmly over the child”
“Ape-like fury”
“Satan’s signature upon a face”
Utterson
“I let my brother go to the devil in his own way”
“If he be Mr Hyde, I shall be Mr seek”
“The last good influence in the lives of down-going men” - sees himself as redeeming force for moral decline - sense of duty
Religion
“Satan’s signature upon his face”
“I am the chief of sinners”
“The spirit of hell awoke me”
Repression/silence
“I concealed my pleasure - jekyll admits hiding smth to maintain social standing
“My devil had been caged, he came out roaring”
“The moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr Hyde” - overconfidence, danger of underestimate inner demons
Secrecy/mystery
“The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city”
Reputation
“The moment I choose I can be rid of Me Hyde” - In Victorian society, reputation and public image were everything — Jekyll hides his immoral desires to avoid damaging his respectable identity.
Macbeth key themes
“I am in blood / stepped in do far I should wade no more” - Macbeth acknowledges he is too far into his crimes to stop, showing how power has corrupted him
“So foul and fair a day I have not seen” - Macbeth’s first words echo the witches, suggesting from the start he is linked with supernatural forces - paradox foreshadows moral conflict
“Stars hide your fires; let’s not see my black and deep desires” - Macbeth hides his true intentions, showing he’s already consumed by ambition - the metaphor “black and deep desires” present his thoughts as dark, unnatural and hidden from God’s light
