Quotes

• ‘valorous minion’

  Captain to Duncan about Macbeth
• ‘dead butcher’

  Macduff about Macbeth
• ‘fair is foul and foul is fair’

  means don’t trust appearance, things aren’t what they seem
• ‘so foul and fair a day i have not seen’
• ‘stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires’
• ‘yet i do fear thy nature, it is too full o’th’milk of human kindness’

  Said by Lady Macbeth
• ‘come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty’

  power = masculinity
• ‘is this a dagger which i see before me, the handle toward my hand?’
• ‘had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t’

  Lady Macbeth about Duncans murder
• ‘sleep no more Macbeth does murder sleep’ - witches

  Shows Macbeths immediate guilt and afraid of future consequences
• sleep reflects innocence through play, if Macbeth has “murdered sleep” he has destroyed his own innocence
• ‘Tis unnatural even like the deed that’s done’

  Said by a nameless old man
• nature also reacts to Duncan’s murder and the destruction of the great chain of being as its ‘unnatural’
• nature is against macbeth
• ‘naughts had, alls spent, where our desires is got without consent‘

  Said by Lady Macbeth

  Reveals a different version of her and suffers remorse that is not shown to anyone else
• ‘out, damned spot; out i say’
• ‘Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand’

  Said by Lady Macbeth
• ‘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’

  Said by Macbeth after he discovers Lady Macbeths death
• ‘this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen’

  Macduff about Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
• ‘fruitless crown’
• ‘Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?’

  Macbeth to Ross
• 'O! Full of scorpions is my mind dear wife'
• ‘vaulting ambition’
• ‘brave’ - Macbeth, A1S1
• ‘noble’ about Macbeth at first
• ‘Will all great neptunes ocean wash this blood clean from my hand’
• ‘come thick night’
• ‘go and wash this filthy witness’

  (Lady Macbeth initially shows no remorse, calls upon darkness to conceal her desires, now the light exposes her guilt and vulnurability)
• Bleed, bleed, poor country! Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure, For goodness dare not check thee

  Said by Macduff as he flees Scotland
• ‘well he deserves that name’

  Lennox about Macbeth
• ‘what he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won’