quotes for themes

Power and corruption (Act 1)

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair" - witches

“Stars, hide your fires; / Let not light see my black and deep desires” - macbeth

Greed and ambition

Masculinity and femininity / men and women (Act 1)

“As two spent swimmers, that do cling together / And choke their art”

“unseamed him from the nave to th’ chops”

“too full o' the milk of human kindness”

Free will and control

“Let not light see my black and deep desires” - Macbeth

Duplicity and equivocation (Act 1)

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair" - the witches

“There's no art / To find the mind's construction in the face” - Duncan

“Stars, hide your fires; / Let not light see my black and deep desires” - Macbeth

“look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under't”

Guilt and remorse Act 2

“the innocent sleep, / Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care / The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, / Balm of hurt minds " -

“Will all great Neptune's oceans wash this blood / Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather / The multitudinous seas incarnadine”

“A little water clears us of this deed”

Good and evil

The Supernatural (act 2)

“Is this a dagger which I see before me, / The handle toward my hand?”