macbeth quotes

• "stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires"


  themes = ambition, guilt and supernatural

  context = divine right of kings, jacobean era = witches were terrible

  when = Act 1 Scene 4
• "vaulting ambition, which overleaps itself/and falls on the other."


  themes = ambition, supernatural

  context = divine right of kings, gunpowder plot - threatning the kings dominance

  when = Act 1 Scene 7
• "Art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation"


  theme = supernatural, guilt, appearance vs reality

  context = corrupting influence of the supernatural

  when = Act 2 Scene 1
• "Thou cant not say i did it. Never shake thy gory locks at me."


  themes = supernatural, guilt

  context = visions are showing his intense guilt - punishment from god for listening to the witches

  when = Act 3 Scene 4