Macbeth.himself

• "O full of scorpions is my mind" - Act 2 Scene 3
• "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself and falls on th'other" - Act 1 Scene 7
• "Thou canst not say i did it. Never shake thy gory locks at me." - Act 3 Scene 4
• "Stars hide your fires, Let not light see my black and deep desires" Act 1, Scene 4
• "Is this a dagger I see before me [...] And such an instrument I was to use."

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• "What’s the boy Malcolm? / Was he not born of woman?"

  • Believes witches prophecies --> vulnerable and manipulated
  • Presented as immoral to the Jacobean audience