themes

• Power/ambition


  Macbeth talks about his "black and deep desires" to be king

  
• Power/Ambition


  By the end of the play Macbeth is not afraid to die "my bones and flesh be hack'd"

  
• Power/ambition


  Macbeth's final words "lay on Macduff, hold enough"
• Power/ Ambition


  Lady Macbeth's bullies Macbeth into not being a coward "we will not fail"

  
• Power/ Ambition


  Banquo's reaction when Macbeth is king is not a positive one "Can the devil speak through"

  
• Power/Ambition


  Macbeth is gradually starting to give up but still has some determination "yet i will try the last"

  Act 5 Scene 7

  
• Power/Ambition


  Lady Macbeth wants all of her femininity removed "take my milk for Gaul"

  Act 2 scene 5

  
• Conflict


  Lenox describes in scene 3 that things are out of order "unruly night"

  
• Conflict


  Lady Macbeth is afraid of what might happen "yet i do fear thy nature"

  
• Conflict


  "is that a dagger i see before me" shows Macbeths conflict in the brain

  Act 2 scene 1

  
• Conflict


  "if it where done quickly; if thy assassination could trammel the consequences"

  Act 1 scene 3

  
• Conflict


  "gives Macbeth a diamond" a stage direction showing a gesture of kindness from Banquo

  Act 2 scene 1

  
• Conflict


  "she strikes apon the bell" this is part of the witches prophecies which symbolises bad news already

  Act 2 scene 1

  
• Conflict


  "a freind" this quote is irony as this is the point just before Duncan dies

  Act 2 scene 1

  
• Guilt


  Macbeth hallucinates and sees a dagger "the handle toward my hand"

  
• Guilt


  "the queen, my lord, is dead" quote by Seyton (Macbeth's servant)

  Act 5 scene 5

  
• Guilt


  "direness, familiar to my slaughtererose thoughts"

  Act 4 scene 3

  
• Guilt


  "a little water clears us of this deed" Macbeth and Lady Macbeth can easily just wash off the guild from the murder they have just comitted

  Act 2 scene 3

  
• Guilt


  "i fear thou play'dst most fully for it" Banquo starts to realise the horror of prophecy.

  Act 3 scene 1

  
• Guilt


  "of that dark hour" Macbeth's mistakes and guilt is revealed.

  Act 3 scene 1

  
• Guilt


  "who strike out the light" "wasn't it the way" the first and the third murderer speak about the deed

  Act 3 scene 4

  
• Cruelty and Masculinity


  "unsex me here" Lady Macbeth wants to remove her gender to give her more access to power

  
• Cruelty and masculinity


  ""take my milk for gaul" Lady Macbeth once again is showing her removal of masculinity and life. Milk is the source of life for babies which she also wants to later "bash the brains out"

  
• Cruelty and masculinity


  "if you durst do the deed then you are a man" Lady Macbeth bullies Macbeth saying that "thy hope drunk" and Macbeth looses all scence of power and masculinity

  
• Cruelty and masculinity


  "dispute it like a man" this is the start of the conversation between Malcolm and Macduff

  Act 4 scene 3

  
• Cruelty and Masculinity


  "but i must feel it like a man" Macduff is now talking to himself making him having a better attitude towards the whole thing and he has to man up

  
• Cruelty and Masculinity


  "when the owls scream and the crickets cry" nature itself is now against what Lady Macbeth and Macbeth has done. Act 2 scene 2

  
• Cruelty and Masculinity


  "act like the flower but be the serpent underneath"

  Conversation between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth during the night of King Duncans murder at the party.

  Act 2 scene 3