macbeth

• theme: kingship

  "his virtues will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against the deep damnation of his taking-off" 
• theme: kingship

  "I have begun to plant thee and will labour to make thee full of growing"
• theme: kingship

  "our country sinks beneath the yoke"
• theme: kingship

  " it weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds."
• theme: kingship

  my thanes and kinsmen henceforth be earls
• theme: kingship

  "dead butcher and his fiend like queen"
• theme: supernatural

  "fair is foul and foul is fair"
• theme: supernatural

  "so foul and fair a day I have not seen"
• theme: supernatural

  "What are these so wither'd and so wild in their attire, that look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, and yet are on't?"
• theme: supernatural

  "you should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so"
• theme: supernatural

  "in the affliction of these dreams that shake us nightly"
• theme: supernatural

  "come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from the toe top full of direst cruelty"
• theme: power

  "fair is foul and foul is fair" to "so foul and fair a day I have not seen"
• theme: power

  "when you durst do it then you were a man"
• theme: power

  gets him nowhere: tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day""
• theme: power

  seizes power through regicide but immediately regrets it" will all great Neptune's oceans wash away this blood from my hand?"
• theme: ambition

  "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on th’other (1.7)"
• theme: ambition

  art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it’-Act I, scene 5
• theme: ambition

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

  "fruitless crown placed upon my head"
• theme: ambition

  "yet I do fear thy nature","too full o' th' milk of human kindness" 
• theme: guilt

  "in the affliction of these dreams that shake us nightly"
• theme: guilt

  "will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?"
• theme: guilt

  "all the perfumes of arabia will not sweeten this hand"
• theme: guilt

  "out damned spot! out i say!"
• theme: guilt

  "sleep no more, Macbeth doth murder sleep"
• theme: guilt

  "Avaunt! and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee!"
• theme: guilt

  " my hands are of your colour yet i shame t wear a heart so white"
• theme: guilt

  "consider it not so deeply"
• theme: guilt

  "to bed, to bed, to bed, whats done cannot be undone"
• theme: violence

  "useamed him from th' nave to th' chaps"
• theme: violence

  "valours minion"
• theme: violence

  "pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, and dash'd the brains out"
• theme: gender roles

  You should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so."
• theme: gender roles

  "come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here"
• theme: gender roles

  "prithee, peace, I dare do all that may become a man"
• theme: gender roles

  "are you a man?"
• theme: gender roles

  "when you durst do it then you were a man"
• theme: gender roles

  " the poor wren, the most diminutive of birds, will fight"
• theme: violence

  " the poor wren, the most diminutive of birds, will fight"