Macbeth quotes

    Cards (12)

    • Fair is foul and foul is fair: 'Spoken by the witches, sets the tone for the play - not to trust appearances'
    • Stars hide your fires let not light see my black and deep desires: 'Spoken by Macbeth, reveals his ambition and moral conflict'
    • Yet do I fear thy nature it is too full of the milk of human kindness: 'Spoken by Lady Macbeth, reveals her view of Macbeth's character'
    • Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe top full of diarist cruelty: 'Spoken by Lady Macbeth, reveals her desire to embody masculine traits to achieve her goals'
    • Is this a dagger which i see before me: 'Spoken by Macbeth, reveals his hesitation and inner conflict before murdering the king'
    • Had he not resembled my father as he slept i had done it: 'Spoken by Lady Macbeth, reveals a softer side and potential inability to commit the murder herself'
    • Sleep no more: 'Spoken by Macbeth, reflects the supernatural consequences and guilt of his actions'
    • It is unnatural even like the deed that's done: 'Spoken by an old man, emphasizes the disruption to the natural order caused by Macbeth's crime'
    • Not had all spent where our desires got without content: 'Spoken by Lady Macbeth, reveals her own remorse and dissatisfaction despite their success'
    • Out damned spot out i say here's the smell of the blood still all the perfumes of arabia will not sweet in this little hand: 'Spoken by Lady Macbeth, displays her dramatic mental decline and inability to escape her guilt'
    • Out out brief candle life's but a walking shadow it is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing: 'Spoken by Macbeth, reflects on the pointlessness of life after his wife's death'
    • This dead butcher and his fiend-like queen: 'Spoken by Malcolm, sums up the negative perception of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth'
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