Macbeth - Act one

• There are five acts in total
• Macbeth is set in Scotland
• A1S1 "Fair is foul, and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air"
• A1S2 - "As two spent swimmers that do cling tof ether And choke their art." - Captain
• A1S2 - "For brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name"
• A1S2 - "like valours minion carved out his passage"
• A1S2 - "what he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won."
• A1S3 - "thunder. enter the witches"
• A1S3 - "So foul and fair a day I have not seen"
• A1S3 - "All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee Thane of Glamis. All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee Thane of Cawdor. All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter."
• A1S3 -"whose horrid image doth unfix my hair" (make his hair stand on end)
• A1S4 - "Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter the Prince of Cumberland"
• A1S4 - "that is a step on which i must fall down, or else o'erleap"
• A1S4 - "Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires"
• A1S5 - "yet i do fear thy nature, it is too full o' th milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way"
• A1S5 - "That i may pour thine spirits in thine ear"
• A1S5 - "That croaks the fatal ent of Duncan"
• A1S5 - "Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty"
• A1S5 - "take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers"
• A1S5 - "O never shall sun that morrow see"
• A1S6 - "This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air nimbly and sweetly recommends it's self unto our general senses"
• A1S6 - "The temple-hunting marlet" (A type of bird, also a person who is easly fooled)
• A1S6 - "We rest your hermits" (Praying for you)
• Bird related quotes

  • "The temple hunting marlet"
  • "Could trammel up the consequences"
  • "A falcon tow'ring in her pride of place / Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed."
  • "The raven himself is hoarse"
  • "hell-kite! All? What, all my pretty chickens and their dam. At one fell swoop?"
• A1S7 - "Duncan" ... "Hath been so clear in his great office"
• A1S7 - "I have no spur to prick the side of my intent, but only vaulting ambition."
• A1S7 - "He hath honoured me of late"
• A1S7 - "Like the poor cat i'th'agage"

  (in the adage - referring to classical adage of a cat who trys to hunt a fish but is afraid of water)
• A1S7 - "When you durst do it, then you were a man"
• A1S7 - "I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this."