Macbeth quotes🩸

• “

  If he had not resembled my father when he slept I had done’t”

  Lady Macbeth
• What does "full of milk" symbolize in the context of Lady Macbeth?

  It represents nurturing and femininity
• What does the phrase "when you durst do it, then you were a man" imply?

  It challenges masculinity and courage
• What does Lady Macbeth want to be "unsexed"?

  To remove her feminine qualities
• What does Lady Macbeth mean by "give me the daggers"?

  She wants to take action in the murder
• What is the significance of the phrase "Out, damned spot!"?

  It reflects her overwhelming guilt
• How does Lady Macbeth's character evolve throughout the play?

  She becomes increasingly guilt-ridden
• What does Lady Macbeth's character ultimately represent in the play?

  The dangers of unchecked ambition
• What does Lady Macbeth's character ultimately represent in the play?

  The dangers of unchecked ambition
• In what ways does Lady Macbeth's character serve as a foil to Macbeth?

  Her ambition contrasts with his hesitance
• “I shame to wear a heart so 🤍”

  Lady Macbeth is ashamed have human nature and feel guilt. White is Symbolic of purity innocence and virtue
• “Take my milk for gall”


  What’s her milk to be poison.malevolent
• ”out damned spot!” Act 5:s1

  Parrelism to act 1 scene 5 With her invocation of spirits to now casting them out
• “What’s done cannot be undone”

  Anagnorisis
• “Chastise with the valour of my tongue all that impedes the golden round“

  lady Macbeth will verbally abuse or condemn anything that is an obstacle to the “golden round” the throne or crown
• “Hell is murky “

  LM knows what hell is like
• “Let not light see my black and deep desires”

  macbeth‘s ambition.light connotes to heaven and god,them of deception and repressed moral corruption
• ”stay you imperfect speakers tell me more “

  Macbeths hubris urges him to want to hear prophecies and engage with supernatura.imperative verbs “imperfect” implies he is aware they are witches
• “If I’ll why have they given me earnest if success”

  Macbeth Trusts the witches prophecies.temptation.Macbeths hubristic tendencies he relies on fate and prophecies
• “Unseamed him from the nave to th’chops”

  • unseam’d” compares Macbeth’s killing to ripping open a piece of fabric, showing both the violence and skill . graphic imagery highlights Macbeth’s and ruthlessness.forebodes his bloody path 🩸 
  • was patriotic
• ”if chance will have me king”

  dependance On fate
• “Valiant cousin”

  Seen as intimate,familial feel. Macbeth being praised by 👑👑
• “Will all great Neptune wash this blood form my hands “

  Calls out to untraditional Greek God as he can no longer call out to traditional ✝️ due to disruption of divine rightz
• “prince of Cumberland! That is a step that I must oerleap “

  Wants to overtake Malcom .highlights thirst for power
• Macbeth means that although they’ve harmed the threat (by killing Duncan), they haven’t removed it completely. The snake symbolizes danger, like Banquo. This shows Macbeth’s growing paranoia and hints that he plans to commit more violence to secure his power.
• “Fruitless 👑”

  Macbeth and lm don’t have kids so fruitless connotes to not being able to conceive.succession has no future
• “Sleep no more ! Macbeth doth murder sleep”

  Macbeth says this, highlights he’s disrupted natural order by commiting regicide. There is no longer peace or tranquility.sleep symbolism of clear conscience
• “I am in blood 🩸”

  Macbeth’s repentance is futile
• “This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues, was once thought honest”

  Malcom says this.saying his name causes pain.appearance VS reality. Theme of deception.context :links to treason and gunpowder plot because the plotters betrayed 👑
• “Juggling fiends “

  Anagnorisis, Act 5 scene 8 Macbeth realises the witches deceived him.Highlights book of daemonologie witches are deceitful
• “False creation proceeding from a heat oppressive brain 🧠 “

  Hallucination of dagger. Guilt. Fevered brain of mind.heat connotes to hell and the devil also means overheated ,conflict and corruption .appearance vs reality
• “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player (…)signifying nothing “

  A5:S5 Macbeth acknowledges meaningless of life and futility of ambition.life fallen apart and has lost moral compass.despair and collapse of identity