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“fair is foul and foul is fair”

the witches said this

-beginning of the play

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“so foul and fair a day I have not seen”

Macbeth

-he wins the war

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“Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none”

witches

-Banquos predictions that he will not become a king but will have kids who are kings

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“the thane of Cawdor lives. Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?’

Macbeth

-who does not know the thane of Cawdor is alive

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“nothing in his life became him like the leaving it”

Malcom

-to King Duncan when discussing the traitor of Cawdor

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“he was a gentlemen on whom I built an absolute trust”

King Duncan

-talking about the thane of cawdor betraying the king

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“yet u do fear thy nature. it is too full o’ the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way”

Lady Macbeth

-she says that Macbeth is too kind to be king

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“come you spirits that tend on moral thoughts, unsex me here”

Lady Macbeth

-so she can be a man and do what a man can do

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“look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue, look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under’t”

Lady Macbeth

-talking about how Macbeth needs to disguise himself as kind yet be evil

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“if it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well it were done quickly”

Macbeth

-when in talking about killing Duncan

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“is this a dagger that I see before me, The handle toward my hand”

Macbeth

-he is going to use the dagger to kill Duncan

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“methough I hear a voice cry ‘sleep no more! Macbeth doth murder sleep’

Macbeth

-as he is partaking in killing the king

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“why did you bring these daggers from this place”

Lady Macbeth

-she is talking to Macbeth about killing King Duncan

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“A little water clears us of this deed”

Lady Macbeth

-she is so guilty of killing Duncan

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“O horror, horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive not name thee”

Macduff

-when he hears of the kings murder

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“There’s daggers in men’s smiles; the near in blood, The nearer bloody”

Donolbain

-seeing people around him after the kings death he knows there are enemies there with him

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“naughts had all’s spent where our desire is got without content”

Lady Macbeth

-talking to macbeth as he thinks about killing Banquo

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“we have scorched the snake, not killed it”

Macbeth

-talking about him becoming kind and the witches predictions

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“o treachery! fly good fleance fly fly fly thou mayst revenge. O slave”

Banquo

-as he is attacked by the murderers and dies

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“there the grown serpent lies; the worm fled hath nature that in time will venom breed”

Murder

-the adult snake (banquo) lies dead and the young serpent (fleance) escapes

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“thou canst not say I did it. Never shake thy glory locks at me”

Macbeth

-to banquos ghost going paranoid at the banquet

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“I am in blood stepped in so far that, should I wde no more Returning were as tedious as go o’er”

Macbeth

-compares a bloody bath with a river in his mind

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“O Scotland, Scotland!”

Macduff

-reacting to the news of his family’s death

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“he has no children. All my pretty ones? Did you say all ? O hell-kite! All?”

Macduff

-when comparing macbeth and talking about him killing his whole bloodline

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“Out, damned spot! out, I say! One; two. Why then ‘tis time to do’t. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord.”

Lady Macbeth

-as she is sleepwalking and trying to get a blood stain out

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“let every soldier hew him down a bough and bear’t before him”

Macolm

-when talking about disguising the soldiers with branches (one of Macbeths aparations)

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“Tomorow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day to last syllable of recorded time”

Macbeth

-talking about the death of lady macbeth, that he emotionally is not in a good place

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“Macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped”

Macbeth

-realizes Macduff was technically not born a woman and was a C-section

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“I will not yield to kiss the ground before young Malcom’s feet”

Macbeth

-as he is fighting macduff

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“hail king! for so thou art. Behold where stands the usurper’s cursed head. The time is free”

Macduff

-talking about Malcom finally becoming kind of Scotland

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