macbeth quotes

• macbeth

  stars hide your fires let not light see my black and deep desires
• lady macbeth

  look life the innocent flower but be the serpent undert
• macbeth

  will all great neptunes oceans wash this blood clean from my hands
• mcduff

  what all my pretty chickens and their dam in one fell swoop
• macbeth

  upon my head they placed a fruitless crown and put a barren sceptre in my grip
• lady macbeth

  out dammed spot, out i say
• witches

  fair is foul and foul is fair
• banquo

  tis strange and often times to win us to harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths
• macbeth

  lifes but a walking shadow signifying nothing
• macbeth

  brave macbeth... distaining fortune with his brandished steel
• lady macbeth

  a little water will clear us of this deed
• lady macbeth

  to full of the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way
• lady macbeth

  i heard the owl scream and the crickets cry
• lady macbeth

  be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck
• banquo

  i dreamt last night of the weird sisters
• banquo

  the dauntless temper of his mind
• banquo

  i fear thou played most foully for it
• banquo

  o treachery, fly good fleance, fly
• banquo

  never shake thy gory locks at me
• macduff

  o horror horror
• macduff

  i must feel it as a man
• macduff

  murder hath broke open the lords anointed temple and stole the life of the building
• macduff

  bleed bleed poor country
• witches

  show his eyes and grieve his heart, come like shadows depart
• witches

  this night ill spend unto a dismal and fatal end
• witches

  come you spirits tend on mortal thoughts
• this night ill spend unto a dismal and fatal end 


  pathetic fallacy

  rhyme scheme= audience think wicked

  supernatural
• show his eyes and grieve his heart come like shadows so depart


  rhyme= audience uneasy

  curse like

  simile

  irony

  supernatural
• fair is foul and foul is fair

  oxymorons= contrasts, creates paradox suggesting manevolence

  trochaic tetrameter= abnormal

  super natural
• bleed poor country bleed 


  personification

  motif of blood

  repetition

  loyalty
• murder hath broke open the lords anointed temple and stole the life out of the building 


  metaphor= stolen kings life

  temple = religious

  chain of being

  loyalty
• o! horror! horror!

  ecphonesis= genuine emotion

  repetition= patriotism

  punctuation= genuine emotion
• what all my pretty chickens in one feel swoop


  metaphor= innocence of dead

  animal motif= broken chain of being

  zoomorphism= predator
• o treachery fly good fleance fly


  ecphonesis= horror

  consance= protection

  children=irony
• i fear thou has played most foully for it


  mimicks witches

  metaphor= played

  alliteration

  appearance vs reality
• tis strange and often times to win us harm the instruments of darkness tell us truths


  doubts

  metaphor

  M+B= juxtaposed
• stars hide your fires let not light see my black and deep desires


  alliteration= exaggerate

  motif of light

  personification
• brave macbeth...distaining fortune with his brandished steel 


  tragic downfall

  foreshadowing

  typical characterisitics
• lives but a walking shadow signifying nothing


  motif of light

  extended metaphor= impact of violence

  nihilistic tone= pointless
• will all great neptunes oceans wash this blood clear from my hand


  allusions to gods

  symbolism

  motif of blood

  guilt