macbeth

• Lady Macbeth

  "come, you spirts ... unsex me here"

  "look like the innocence flower but be the serpent under it"

  "out, dam spot, out I say"
• the witches(act1 scenes 1+2)

  supernatural chaos eerie

  Duncan makes Macbeth thane of Cawdor

  "brave Macbeth"

  "valour's minion"
• Lady Macbeth first soliloquy (Act 1 scene 5)

  emasculates

  subverts female stereotypes

  "unsex me here"

  "fill me to the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty"
• the dagger soliloquy (act2 scene1)


  pivotal

  moral compass is lost

  "is this a dagger I see before me"

  "summons thee to heaven or to hell"
• aftermath of Duncan murders(act2 scene2)


  regicide

  guilt

  "give me the dagger"

  "Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand"
• Banquo ghost (act3 scene4)


  "never shake thy gory lock at me"

  "unreal mockery, hence!"
• witches three apparitions (act4 scene1)

  equivocation

  "beware MacDuff"

  "none of women born shall harm Macbeth"

  "great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him"
• Macduff family murder (act4 scene 2)

  slaughter of the innocents

  "he's killed me, mother!"

  "the poor wren ... will fight ... against the owl."
• lady Macbeth gone insane + sleep walking (act5 and scene1)


  quilt

  "out, out damned spot!"

  "she carries a light with her continually"
• Macbeth tomorrow soliloquy (act 5 scene5)

  nihilistic

  remorseful

  "life is but a walking shadow"

  "out, out brief candle"
• Macbeth is killed (act5 scene8)

  "this dead butcher and his fiend like queen"

  "by the grace , we will perform in measure time and place"