Macbeth quotes
Cards (27)
- 'Fair is foul and foul is fair' - Witch 1
- Zealotry- an extreme obsession/devotion to something
- 'Come, thick night...' - Macbeth Act 2 Scene 1
- 'Look like th' innocent flower, but be the serpent under it' - Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5
- Tyranny- cruel and or oppressive rule by a dictator or dictoral government
- So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
- first line in the play
- Presents Macbeth as malleable and susceptible to the witches schemes
- Macbeth emulates the witches oxymoronic tents
- Key theme of appearance vs reality
- They represent evil and temptation which is why they appear at the beginning of the play when Macbeth is vulnerable
- The witches are supernatural beings who can control fate and manipulate people into doing things they would never normally do (Macbeth)
- Their first prophecy sets off a chain reaction that leads to Macbeth becoming king
- Emasculation- the process of making a man less masculine, less powerful, or less attractive
- Regicide: the action of killing a king.
- "I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition" - Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7
- "Look like th' innocent flower, But be the serpent under 't." - Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5
- "Come you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here And fill me from the crown to the toe top full Of direst cruelty!" - Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5
- Avaricious: having or showing an extreme greed for wealth or material gain
- When shall we three meet again- in thunder, lightning or in rain
- Fair is foul and foul is fair- hover through fog and filthy air
- Out damned spot! out i say!
- Merciless macdonwald
- Brave Macbeth
- Valiant Cousin, worthy gentleman
- If chance will have me king why chance may crown me without my stir
- I dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more is none
- Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done't
- Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine making the green one red.
- "Out damned spot!" out i'th washing-line to mangle on!