Macbeth Quotes

• ‘brave Macbeth’ 1.2 Captain about Macbeth’s character and masculinity
• ’Disdaining fortune’ 1.2 Captain about Macbeth character
• ’Valour‘s minion’ 1.2 Macbeth character
• ‘Unseam’d him from the nave to th’chaps’ 1.2 Captain about Macbeth character
• ’Valiant cousin’ 1.2 Duncan about Macbeth character
• ‘As sparrows, eagles, or the hare, the lion.’ 1.2 Captain about Macbeth character
• ‘Bathe in reeking wounds’ 1.2 Captain about Macbeth violence
• ‘memorise another Golgotha‘ 1.2 Captain about Macbeth‘s brutality - religious context
• ‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’ 1.1 Witches about appearance vs reality
• ‘Bellona’s bridegroom‘ 1.2 Ross about Macbeth‘s valiance
• ‘Go pronounce his present death and with his former title greet Macbeth’ 1.2 Duncan about Macbeth becoming thane of Cawdor. Rhyming couplet emphasises irony as former thane of cawdor was a traitor as Macbeth will become
• ‘what he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won’ 1.2 Duncan about Macbeths power
• ’In thunder lighting or in rain?’ 1.1 Witches about meeting Macbeth pathetic fallacy
• ‘When the hurly burly’s done, When the battle‘s lost, and won‘ 1.1 Witches rhyming couplet, obfuscatory language - unclear what battle is happening
• ‘Hover through the fog and filthy air’ 1.1 Witches fog may be a metaphor for the horrors of war or evil and death
• ‘I’ll give thee a wind’ 1.3 Witches and supernatural nature is normally controlled by god but the witches are overpowering it which would cause fear in a contemporary audience
• ‘Though his bark cannot be lost’ 1.3 Witches about their power and how they cannot silence men but can impact their lives
• ‘So foul and fair a day I have not seen‘ 1.3 Macbeth repeating witches language may hint at his evil
• ‘That look not like th’inhabitants o’th’earth’ 1.3 Banquo about the witches something is off
• ‘All hail Macbeth’ 1.3 Witches boosting Macbeths ego before the predictions
• ‘Thane of Glamis… Thane of Cawdor… that shalt be king hereafter’ 1.3 Witches predictions about Macbeth
• ‘Speak then to me’ 1.3 Banquo curious about his future prophecies from witches
• ‘Lesser than Macbeth, and greater’ 1.3 Witches 1st prediction about Banquo - he will have less power but be a more moral person
• ‘Not so happy, yet much happier’ 1.3 Witches 2nd prophecy about Banquo
• ‘Thou shall get kings, though thou be none’ 1.3 Witches 3rd prophecy about Banquo
• ‘Stay, you imperfect speakers. Tell me more’ 1.3 Macbeth commanding witches to stay. Power hungry shown in imperatives, beginning of downfall
• ‘have we eaten on the insane root, that takes the reason prisoner’ 1.3 Banquo after the prophecies already sceptical and careful around the prophecies
• ‘call thee Thane of Cawdor’ 1.4 Ross bringing Macbeth the news which fulfilled the second prophecy almost immediately after
• ‘What, can the devil speak true?’ 1.3 Banquo seems scared by the supernatural
• ‘treasons capital, confess’d and prov’d’ 1.3 Angus describing the former Thane of Cawdor which is ironic because Macbeth will become someone to commit regicide
• ‘The greatest is behind‘ 1.3 Macbeth aside showing his ambition to become King as the greatest prophecy is the last one and only one yet to come true
• ‘Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths; win us with honest trifles, to betray’s in deepest consequence’ 1.3 Banquo wary about having ambition and believing the supernatural - directly contrasts Macbeth
• ‘I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself and falls on th’other’ 1.7 Macbeth shows he has an overpowering desire for power and it makes him reckless
• ‘horrid image doth unfix my hair’ 1.3 Macbeth‘s fantasies about gaining power in immoral ways
• ‘make my seated heart knock against my ribs’ 1.3 Macbeth describing how his ambition is scaring him
• ‘horrible imaginings. My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical’ 1.3 Macbeth is thinking about murdering the king but this thought shakes him and almost consumes him
• ‘Shakes so my single state of man‘ 1.3 Macbeth scared of his own ambition
• ‘If chance may have me king, why chance may crown me king. Without my stir’ 1.3 Macbeth attempting to conceal his ambition
• ‘strange garments, cleave not to their mould‘ 1.3 Banquo describing how Macbeth will not feel right in power until he is used to it
• ‘Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day’ 1.3 Macbeth attempting to conceal his ambition and instead saying that he will be patient as even the longest day has an end