quotes

• appearance/reality

  witches "fair is foul and foul is fair" (a1.s1)
• Macbeth plots his crime

  Macbeth "Stars, hide your fires/let not light see my black and deep desires" (a1.s4)
• The Unnatural

  Lady M "Come, you spirits... Unsex me here" (a1.s5)
• Hallucination

  Macbeth "Is this a dagger i see before me?" (a2.s1)
• Lady Macbeth is more masculine

  Lady M "My hands are of your colour but i shame to wear a heart so white" (a2.s2)
• Paranoia

  Macbeth: "To be thus is nothing but to be safely thus" (a3.s1)
• Guilt

  Macbeth " Full of scorpions in my mind dear wife " (a3.s2)
• Macbeth takes charge and conceals information from lady Macbeth (becomes more masculine)

  Macbeth "Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck" (a3.s2)
• Cyclicality

  Macbeth "Blood will have Blood" (a3.s2)
• the tragic hero

  Malcolm "This tyrant whose sole name blisters our tongue was once thought honest" (a4.s3)
• Guilt/anxiety and torment

  Lady M "All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand" (a5.s1)
• Disruption to "the great chain" results in disaster

  Doctor "Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles (a5.s1)
• Existential crisis

  Macbeth "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player" (a5.s5)
• betrayal of prophecy

  Macbeth "i bear a charmed life" (a5.s8)