Macbeth Key Quotes and Themes

Vocabulary revision flashcards detailing characters, motifs, and major themes with their associated quotes from Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Macbeth

Key quotes: "brave Macbeth", "too full of the milk of human kindess", "is this a dagger?", and "this tyrant".

Lady Macbeth

Key quotes: "fair and noble hostess", "out damned spot", "pour my spirits in thine ear", and "fiend like queen".

Banquo

Key quotes: "grac'd person of our Banquo", "lesser than Macbeth, and greater", and "I fear thou played'st most foully for't".

Three Witches

Key quotes: "so wither'd and wild", "imperfect speakers", "instruments of darkness", and "something wicked".

Macduff

Key quotes: "noble passion", "from his mother's womb untimely ripp'd", and "Macbeth is ripe for shaking".

Duncan

Key quotes: "so meek", "so clear in his great office", and "gracious Duncan".

Animal Imagery

Key quotes: "full of scorpions is my mind", "we have scorched the snake", and "there the grown".

Madness

Key quotes: "to seem thus washing her hands" and "never shake thy gory locks at me".

Supernatural

Key quotes: "cannot be ill, cannot be good", "fair is foul and foul is fair", and "moves like a ghost".

Ambition

Key quotes: "vaulting ambition" and "I must fall down, or else o'erleap".

Revenge

Key quotes: "blood will have blood", "nature that in time will venom breed", and "great revenge to cure this deadly grief".

Kingship

Key quotes: "our suffering country under a hand accurs'd" and "our country sinks beneath".

Deception

Key quotes: "look like the innocent flower", "daggers in men's smiles", and "he's here in double trust".

Masculinity

Key quotes: "quite unmanne'd", "was the hope drunk", and "when you durst do it, then you were a man".

Femininity

Key quotes: "unsex me here" and "dashe'd the brains out".