Macbeth

• "I cannot fly, but bearlike I must fight the course." Macbeth Act 5 Scene 7, animalistic reference, shows determination
• "O full of scorpions is my mind dear wife!" Macbeth Act 3 Scene 2, metaphorical language to show his guilt
• "I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked!" Macbeth's soliloquy Act 5 Scene 3, violent but will fight to the end, sign of madness
• "It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Macbeth Act 5 Scene 5, says that all the effort he's put in to be king has been for nothing. shows his fear
• "I am in blood stepped in so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er" Macbeth Act 3 Scene 4, metaphor - there is no turning back.
• "What man dare, I dare;" Macbeth seeing Banquo's ghost Act 3 Scene 4, parallelism, echo of A1S7.
• "And overcome us like a summer's cloud" Macbeth after seeing Banquo's ghost Act 3 Scene 4, simile conveying to the strangeness of the ghost
• "Thou canst not say i did it; never shake thy gory locks at me" Macbeth accusing Banquo's ghost Act 3 Scene 4, dramatic irony, Macbeth knows he killed Banquo but doesn't want anyone else to know
• "Is this a dagger which I see before me," Macbeth's soliloquy Act 2 Scene 1, connotations to evil and death
• "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?" Macbeth after murdering Duncan Act 2 Scene 2
• "All's too weak for brave Macbeth" Captain Act 1 Scene 2, feeds into tragedy
• "So foul and fair a day I have not seen" Macbeth Act 1 Scene 3, echos the witches
• "Thy crown does sear mine eyeballs." Macbeth Act 4 Scene 1, reference to physical pain of losing everything, resentment and despair, foreshadows his death
• "Life is but a walking shadow" Macbeth A5, existential crisis