Macbeth

• Banquo is Macbeth's antithesis
• "You should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so" - Banquo
• "Out damned spot!" - Lady Macbeth
• "A dagger of the mind" - Macbeth
• "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts his life upon the stage." - Macbeth
• "By the pricked of my thumb, something wicked this way comes" - Witches
• "Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done it" - Lady Macbeth
• "playing a tale told by an idiot" - Macbeth
• "Playing a tale told by an idiot" - Macbeth


  Blames God. Bad person to Jacobean audience. Denying responsibility.
• "vaulting ambition that o'er leaps itself" - Macbeth
• "Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck" - Macbeth
• "too full o'th milk of human kindness" - Lady Macbeth
• "take my milk for gall" - Lady Macbeth
• "come you mortal spirits that tend on mortal thoughts" - Lady Macbeth
• "unsex me here" - Lady Macbeth
• "come to my woman's breasts and take my milk for gall you murthering ministers" - Lady Macbeth
• "Valours minion"
• "My dearest love" - Lady Macbeth
• "Thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now?" - Lady Macbeth
• "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?" - Macbeth
• "A little water clears us of this deed. How easy it is then" - Lady Macbeth
• "So foul and fair a day I have not seen" - Macbeth
• "Fair is foul and foul is fair" - Witches
• "When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?" - witches
• "light thickens"
• "darkness does the face of earth entomb"
• Hamartia - fatal flaw leading to downfall of tragic hero (Macbeth)
• "A falcon, tow'ring in her pride of place, was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed"
• "tis said they (the horses) ate each other"
• Three witches, three fates in Greek tragedy.
• "To win us our harms, the instruments of darkness tell us truths" - Banquo
• "I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters " - Banquo
• "He could not say amen"
• "heat oppressed brain" - Macbeth
• "something wicked this way comes" - witches


  Juxtaposition (witches calling HIM wicked), chremamorphism (inverse personification, objectifying him)
• "instruments of darkness tell us truths, only to betray" - Banquo
• "instruments of darkness tell us truths only to betray"

  metaphor, foreshadowing.
• Chremamorphism - inverse personification, objectification
• "unseamed him from the knave to the chaps"
• "unseamed him from the knave to the chaps"

  Symbolism, metaphor