5 key quotes that can fit any theme.

• "I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep" (act 2)

  • themes: guilt, ambition, supernatural, appearance vs reality, gender
• "Tell me" "call em" (act 4)

  • themes: supernatural, ambition, appearance vs reality
• "worthy Cawdor!...all hail hereafter" to a coward" (act 1)

  • themes: gender, ambition, violence, appearance vs reality, guilt
• "I am in blood/Stepp'd in so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious" (act 3)

  • themes: violence, guilt, ambition
• Macbeth's "vaulting ambition"


  Falls on the other, showing his awareness in all-encompassing ambition in his hamartia destines to lead to his crippling mental turmoil and agony
• "Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself and falls on th' other" (act 1)

  • themes- ambition, violence, supernatural, appearance vs reality, guilt, gender
  • Personification: Macbeth personifies his ambition, alike to a human force that can corrupt his formerly innocent mind.