Macbeth key quotes

• Fair is foul and foul is fair (witches)


  - chiasmus

  -appearance vs reality
• it is too full of the milk of human kindness (lady macbeth)


  -subverts gender stereotypes

  -milk is maternal

  -femineity is a sign of weakness
• take my milk for gall (lady macbeth)


  -femininity taken for masculine bile
• innocent flower, but be the serpant under (lady macbeth)


  - satantic serparnt (link biblical allusion)

  - hospitaslity for king

  - appearnce vs reality

  - metaphor and simile
• i have no spur to prick the sides of my intent (macbeth)


  -equine metaphor

  -lack of motivation
• a dagger of the mind (macbeth)


  -hallucination

  -extreme psycological state
• consider it not so deeply (lady macbeth)


  -imperative to macbeth and herslef

  -link act 5 where she goes mad
• will all great Neptune ocean wash this blood clean from my hand (macbeth)


  -oceanic metaphor

  -hyperbloic

  -wont clear guilt
• my hands are of your colour but i shame to wear a heart so white (lady macbeth)


  -subverts gender steryotyoe

  -anititheis

  -united in gulilt
• a little water clears us of this deed (lady macbeth)


  -metaphor

  -juxtaposes earlier as shes 'less guilty
• theres daggers in mens smile (donaldbain)


  - metaphor

  - duncans killer is hiding behind face
• fruitless crown (macbeth)


  -childless, unhappy

  -country impoverished during his reign
• blood will have blood (macbeth)


  -blood=violence=death, duncans and banquos

  - tautology
• i am in blood (macbeth)


  -to go back is as hard to go forward so might as well kill
• new widows howl new orphans cry new sorrows strike heaven (macduff)


  -personification

  -scotlands pain
• angels are bright still, though the brightest fell (malcom)


  -satan ultimate fear for jacobean audience

  -metaphor to relate to macbeth downfall