Macbeth

• Kingship


  'will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red' - Macbeth (A2 S2)

  'lesser than Macbeth and greater' - First witch (A1 S3)

  'o valiant cousin, worthy gentleman' - Duncan (A1 S2)

  'the dark night strangles the travelling lamp' - Ross (A2 S4)

  '[Enter Macduff, with Macbeth's head]' - Stage Directions (A5 S9)

  'He hath a heavenly gift of prophecy, and sundry blessings hang about his throne that speak him full of grace' - Malcolm (A4 S3)
• Loyalty & Betrayal


  'Life is but a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage' - Macbeth (A5 S5)

  'the loyalty I owe' - Macbeth (A2 S4)

  'child of integrity...reconcil'd my thoughts to thy good truth and honour.' - Malcolm (A4 S3)

  'your servants ever' - Lady Macbeth (A1 S6)

  'His flight was madness' - Lady Macduff (A4 S2)

  'allegiance clear' - Banquo (A2 S1)

  'oftentimes, to win our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's deepest consequence' - Banquo (A1 S3)
• Fate & Free will


  'Let light not see my black deep desires'

  'Come you spirits...unsex me here'

  '[Fleance escapes]' - stage directions (A3 S3)

  'I dream'd last night of the three weird sisters' - Banquo (A2 S1)

  'I look'd toward Birnam and anon methought the wood began to move.' - Messenger (A5 S5)

  'Naught that I am, not for their own demerits but for mine' - Macduff (A4 S3)
• Gender


  'Are you a man? ' - Lady Macbeth (A3 S4)

  'Unsex me here' - Lady Macbeth (A1 S5)

  'Bring forth men-children only' - Macbeth (A1 S7)

  'O gentle lady, 'tis not for you to hear what I can speak.' - Macduff (A2 S3)

  '[Lady Macbeth is assisted to leave]' - stage directions (A2 S3)
• Ambition


  'With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design' - Macbeth (A2 S1)

  'Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature?' - Macbeth (A1 S3)

  'signifying nothing' - Macbeth (A5 S5)

  'Thriftless ambition, that will ravin up thine own lives' means! Then 'tis most like the sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth.' - Macbeth (A2 S4)

  'To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus' - Macbeth (A3 S1)

  'Tyrant, show thy face! If thou be'st stain, and with no stroke of mine, my wife and children's ghosts will haunt me...Let me find him...and more I beg not.' - Macduff (A5 S7)
• Supernatural


  '[Enter the Ghost of Banquo and sits in Macbeth's place]' - stage directions (A3 S4)

  'Is this a dagger which I see before me' - Macbeth (A2 S1)

  'When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?' - First Witch (A1 S1)

  'eye of newt, and toe of frog...like a hell-broth, boil and bubble' - Second Witch (A4 S1)

  'I...begin to doubt the equivocation of the fiend that lies like truth' - Macbeth (A5 S5)

  'Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here
• Appearance & Reality


  'Something wicked this way comes' - Second Witch (A4 S1)

  'O gentle lady, 'tis not for you to hear what I speak.' - Macduff (A2 S3)

  'Must lave our honors in these flattering streams, and make our faces vizards to our hearts' - Macbeth (A3 S2)

  'Let light not see my back and deep desires' - Macbeth (A1 S4)

  'Our self will mingle with society and play the humble host; our hostess keeps her state, but in best time we will require her welcome.' - Macbeth (A3 S4)

  'Out damned spot! Out I say!' - Lady M (A5 S1)

  'Is this a dagger which I see before me'

  '[Enter the Ghost of Banquo and sits in Macbeth's place]