macbeth

• "brave macbeth"
• "with his brandished steel sword which smoked with bloody execution"
• "Valour's minion"
• "till he unseamed him from the nave to the chops"
• "bellona's bridegroom"
• "what he hath lost, noble macbeth has won"
• "so foul and fair a day i have not seen"

  • the use of the words "fair" and "foul" echo the witches, foreshadowig their huge role in his life and emphasising the influence they have
• "All hail macbeth, hail to thee Thane of Glamis"

  "All hail macbeth, hail to thee Thane of Cawdor"

  "All hail macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter"
• "this supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good."

  • this inner conflict can be seen as the beginning of his downward spiral in his mental state
• duncan:

  "he was a gentleman on whom i built an absolute trust"

  • ironic because macbeth destroys this trust by murdering him
• "let not light see my black and deep desires"
• "too full o' the' milk of human kindness"
• manipulation by lady macbeth

  "i may pour my spirits in thine ear"

  • manipulate him, because he has the ambition, but feels too much remorse ["the illness"], making him too feminine
• endearments for lady macbeth

  "my dearest partner of greatness""my dearest partner of greatness"

  "my dearest love"
• act 1 scene 7 soliloquy

  "we'd jump the life to come"

  "double trust"

  "kinsman", "subject", "host"

  "his virtues will plead like angels"

  "Pity, like a naked new-born babe"

  "heaven's cherubin"

  "but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself"
• "golden opinions"
• “Nothing is but what is not.”
• “False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”
• “I dare do all that may become a man;Who dares do more is none.”
• “Blood will have blood.”

  “It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood.”
• “How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!”
• "Look like th’ innocent flower,But be the serpent under ‘t."
• "And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,Against the use of nature?"
• "My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,Shakes so my single state of man"
• "A dagger of the mind, a false creation,Proceeding from the heat-oppressèd brain?"
• " a dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat oppressed brain"
• "nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse the curtained sleep"
• "sleep no more. macbeth does murder sleep"

  • shows his extreme guilt
• "will all great neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?

  "making the green one red"

  • exaggerates how much blood is on his hands, the highlights the extreme weight of guilt he now carries.
• "his silver skin laced with golden blood"

  "and his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature"

  • The word "gashed" implies that the wounds inflicted on Duncan are severe and violent. It suggests that Macbeth's actions were not just a murder but a brutal, violent act, which was unnecessary and excessive.
• "there's daggers in men's smiles. the nearer the blood, the nearer the bloody"
• "dauntless temper of his mind"

  • banquo's brave nature
• "placed a fruitless crown, and put a barren sceptre in my grip"
• "put rancours in the vessel of my peace"

  • filled his head with bitter thoughts.
• "and make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are"
• "O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife"
• "there's blood upon thy face"
• "which of you have done this?

  • shows his paranoia
• "blood will have blood"
• "i am in blood stepped in so far, that i should wade no more; returning were as tedious as go o'er"