Quotes

• "Fair is foul and foul is fair,Hover through the fog and filthy air"

  foreshadows macbeth's downfall,reverse natural order,oxymoronic
• "Stars hide your fires, Let not light see my black and deep desires"


  macbeth wants to hide his ambitions for power from god and from those around him
• "Look like th'innocent flower, but be the serpent under't"

  oxymoron, macbeth needs to act innocent and then kill Duncan when he is least expecting it
• "Is this a dagger I see before me"


  macbeth is hallucinating just before killing duncan, he sees a flouting dagger, his last chance to change his mind
• "Unseam'd him from the nave to'th'chops, and fixed his head upon the battlements"


  shows macbeth's violent nature at the start of the play.presents macbeth as a hero
• "too full o'th'milk of human kindness"


  lm does not believe that macbeth can kill duncan. she feels that he does not have it in him
• "Give to the edge of the sword his wife his babes"


  macbeth telling murderers to kill macduff's family.shows his violent nature
• "(Aside to Macbeth) Are you a man?"


  lm emasculates macbeth in order to manipulate him
• "[ The GHOST OF BANQUO enters, and sits in MACBETH's place ]"

  the turning point for macbeth. his final chance for redemption
• "Life is but a walking shadow... a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"


  macbeth is contemplating life and how it is meaningless. the only thing he has to look forward for is death he has given up.