Macbeth

Act 1:1- witches rejection of normal moral values

Act 1:1- witches rejection of normal moral values

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair”

Act 1:2 - tells us that Macbeth is a noble and brave warrior

“For brave Macbeth- well he deserves that name”

Act 1:3 - shows Macbeths connection to evil

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

Act 1:3 - Seed of ambition, witches tells Macbeth about his new title

“Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?”

Act 1:4- Macbeth not a natural born killer, shows his guilt for even thinking such thoughts

“Let not light see my black and deepest desires”

Act 1:5- Lady Macbeth’s manipulative influence over Macbeth

“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t”

Act 1:7- Macbeths attempt to stand up against Lady Macbeth

“We will proceed no further in this business”

Act 2:1- Macbeths guilt, apparition of dagger

“Is this a dagger which I see before me?”

Act 2:1- Macbeth lies to Banquo about the witches

“I think not of them”

Act 2:2- grief and guilt about Duncan’s murder haunts Macbeth during his sleep

“Sleep no more: Macbeth does murder sleep”

Act 2:2- Macbeths guilt about murdering Duncan has made his mess up, and he refuses to go back to fix it

“I’ll go no more”

Act 2:2 -Lady Macbeth’s casual behaviour after horrible act

“A little water clears us of this deed”

Act 2:3- Macbeth is acting grief-stricken towards the others, but is really guilty about his actions

“Had I died but an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time”

Act 3:1 - Macbeths anger towards Banquo’s future sons reign

“Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown”

Act 3:2 - Shows shift in relationship between Lady and Macbeth, drift in trust

“Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck”

Act 3:4- guilty for Banquo’s murder because of friendship, refuses to believe the sight of his apparition

“Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake thy gory locks at me”

Act 3:4- Thinks Banquo will somehow seek revenge

“It will have blood they say: blood will have blood”

Act 3:4- Macbeth acknowledges his horrible actions, but claims it is easier to keep killing than to stop

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

Act 3:5- Hecate, over-confidence is man’s worst enemy

“Security is mortals chiefest enemy”

Act 4:1- Witches chant

“Double, double, toil and trouble”

Act 4:1- first apparition

“For none of woman born shall harm Macbeth”

Act 4:1- Second apparition

“Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him”

Act 4:1 Third apparition

“Beware Macduff; Beware Thane of Fife”

Act 4:1 -Macbeth’s descent to tyranny

“The very firstlings of my heart shall be the very firstlings of my hand”

Act 4:3- Malcoms opinion about Macbeth "

“This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues”

Act 5:1- Lady Macbeths descent to madness

“Out, damned spot!”

Act 5:2- Angus’s description of Macbeth’s small character

“Now does he feel his title hang loose about him, like a giant's robe upon a dwarfish thief."

Act 5:3- Macbeth remains calm until the witches apparitions come true

"Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane, I cannot taint with fear”

Act 5:5-Macbeths reaction to Lady Macbeths death, acts as if it is an inconvenience

“There would have been a time for such a word tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow"

Act 5:8- Macduff’s revelation about his birth

“Macduff was from his mothers womb untimely ripped”

Act 5:8- shows Macbeths warrior-like bravery until the end

“Before my body I throw my warlike shield; lay on my shield and be damned him that first cries “Hold, enough!”