Macbeth key quotes

• Key themes

  • Violence
  • Ambition
  • Guilt
  • Gender
  • Appearance vs reality
  • Supernatural
• Lady Macbeth

  'look like a innocent flower but be the serpent undert'
• Lady macbeth

  'dashed the brains out'
• Lady macbeth

  'come thick knight'
• Lady Macbeth

  ' had not resembled my father as he slept i had done it'
• Lady Macbeth

  [Enters with a taper]
• Macbeth

  'will all great Neptune oceans wash this blood clean from my hand'
• Macbeth

  'Is this a dagger that i see before me'
• Macbeth

  'I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but my vaulting ambition'
• Macbeth

  'Never shake thy gory locks at me'