Macbeth

• "i have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, only vaulting ambition"

  "O'erleaps itself"

  Macbeth- debating whether to kill Duncan
• "When you durst do it, then you were a man"

  Lady Macbeth after Macbeth doubts the plan to kill Duncan
• "A tale, told by and idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"

  after lmb dies
• Nihilism


  Belief that life is pointless
• Anagnorisis

  Tragic hero's realisation that all his actions were for nothing
• "Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires"

  "come, thick night and pall thee of the dunnest smoke of hell"

  plotting murder of duncan

  macbeth says after lmb- lmb has control
• "Dead butcher and fiend-like queen"

  malcom, after death

  not named- status drops immediately
• Look like th' innocent flower but be the serpent undert'
• unsex me here

  lmb- soliloquy
• Give me the daggers
• Consider it not so deeply
• could not say amen
• "Sleep no more/macbeth does murder sleep"

  post Duncan
• Stay you imperfect speakers and tell me more

  -Macbeth witches
• Too full o' the milk of human kindness
• Dashed the brains out
• Be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck
• full of scorpions is my mind dear wife
• False face
• The devil himself could not pronounced a title more hateful to mine ear
• If we should fail? We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail
• Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done it
• Is this a dagger which I see before me? the handle toward my hand?
• "Take my milk for gall"
• "Live a coward"

  lmb
• "Out damned spot"

  "out out brief candle"
• Macduff 


  Not in the legions of horrid hell fan come a devil more damn'd in evils to top Macbeth
• Macduff about Macbeth (dead)

  Behold, where it stands, the usurpers cursed head
• Macduff on Macbeth again (vengeful)

  If thou be'st slain and with no stroke of mine, my wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still