Macbeth

• In thunder, lightning, or in rain?


  Sets a dark, sinister and dangerous tone. ”thunder“ and “lightning” foreshadow destruction. lightning is also unpredictable, as are the witches. They equivocate and bring up the unexpected, bringing turmoil and conflict to macbeth.
• Fair is foul and foul is fair hover through fog and filthy air


  Paradox. Nothing is as it seems, later used on macbeth, conflicting him and confusing him. “fog and filthy air” indicates deception and an unclear future for macbeth.
• For brave Macbeth -well he deserves that name-


  Macbeth was a real figure 1040-1057 he was known for expanding the kingdom’s territory and being a successful king. “Brave“ outlines his valiant nature a true qualities that would befit for a ruler marking him as a successful advocate for the throne after Duncan.
• Disdaining fortune, with his brandish’d steel which smok’d with bloody execution


  -“disdaining” emphasises how M was able to prove fortune unworthy, going against all odds and winning the battle for Scotland.

  -”Brandish’d“ highlights M‘s lack of self control or concern for human life, foreshadowing his later deeds. This exposes his genuineness of his character which consists of several nefarious traits.

  -”Smok’d” illustrates how M ruthlessly murdered people on the battlefield with such skill and speed his sword is metaphorically on fire.
• Unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps


  “unseam’d” similar to carved highlights how elegantly M fights in battle, carefully slicing his opponents with precision as a seamer would piece or clothing. Shakespeare demonstrates M’s discipline and devotion to Scotland by how he led his life to protect his country.
• O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!


  Duncan- Act 1 Scene 2
• So foul and fair a day I have not seen


  Macbeth- Act 1 Scene 3
• All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee 


  Witches- Act 1 Scene 3 (x3)
• That look not like the inhabitants o’ the earth… you should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret


  Banquo- Act 1 Scene 3
• The instruments of darkness tell us truths


  Banquo- Act 1 Scene 3
• This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good.


  Macbeth- Act 1 Scene 3
• Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see your black and deep desires


  Macbeth- Act 1 Scene 4
• Come, you spirits…Unsex me here


  Lady Macbeth- Act 1 Scene 5
• And fill me from the crown to the top toe-full of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood!

  Lady Macbeth- Act 1 Scene 5
• Come to my woman’s breasts, and take my milk for gall.


  Lady Macbeth- Act 1 Scene 5
• Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t.


  Lady Macbeth- Act 1 scene 5
• But only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself


  Macbeth- Act 1 scene 7
• When you durst do it, then you were a man… be so much more a man


  Lady Macbeth- Act 1 Scene 7
• I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters: to you they have shown some truth.


  Banquo- Act 2 Scene 1
• Is this a dagger… the handle toward my hand


  Macbeth- Act 2 Scene 1
• I not say ‘Amen,’ when they did say ‘God bless us!’


  Macbeth- Act 2 Scene 2
• Macbeth shall sleep no more


  Macbeth- Act 2 Scene 2
• Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hands


  Macbeth- Act 2 Scene 2
• My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white


  Lady Macbeth- Act 2 Scene 2
• There’s a dagger in men’s smiles


  Banquo- Act 2 Scene 3
• and, i fear, thou play’dst most foully fort


  Banquo- Act 3 Scene 1
• O, full of scorpions is my mind


  Macbeth- Act 3 Scene 2
• never shake thy gory locks at me


  Macbeth- Act 3 Scene 4
• Something wicked this way comes


  Witches- Act 4 Scene 1
• This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues


  Malcolm- Act 4 Scene 3
• Be this the whetstone of your sword: let grief convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it.


  Malcolm- Act 4 scene 3
• All my pretty ones?… all my pretty chickens.


  Macduff- Act 4 Scene 3
• Out damned spot! Out, I say!


  Lady Macbeth- Act 5 scene 1
• All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand


  Lady Macbeth- Act 5 Scene 1
• What’s the boy Malcolm? Was he not born of woman?


  Macbeth- Act 5 scene 3
• She should have die hereafter


  Macbeth- Act 5 Scene 5
• I will not yield, to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet


  Macbeth Act 5 Scene 8