Year 10 English Enrichment Semester 2: 'Macbeth' Quotes

The witches have malicious intent ‘spurn fate’ quote.

‘He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes ’bove wisdom, grace, and fear.’

When is the ‘spurn fate’ quote?

When Hecate speaks to the witches.

The witches have malicious intent ‘security’' quote.

‘And you all know, security Is mortals’ chiefest enemy.’

When is the malicious intent ‘security’ quote?

When Hecate speaks with the witches.

The witches have malicious intent ‘hay’ quote.

‘I’ll drain him dry as hay. Sleep shall neither night nor day Hang upon his penthouse lid. He shall live a man forbid.’

When is ‘hay’ quote?

When the witches meet to do magic.

The witches use ancient magic to manipulate Macbeth ‘charm' quote.

‘Peace, the charm’s wound up’

The witches use ancient magic to manipulate Macbeth ‘illusion’ quote.

‘Shall raise such artificial sprites As by the strength of their illusion Shall draw him on to his confusion’

The witches use ancient magic to manipulate Macbeth ‘thrice’ quote.

‘Thrice to thine and thrice to mine, and thrice again to make up nine’

Three rule?

The Pagan Rule of Three

Lady Macbeth uses emotional manipulation ‘spirits’ quote.

‘I may pour my spirits in thine ear And chastise with the valor of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round’

Macbeth is manipulated by Lady Macbeth ‘proceed’ quote.

‘We will proceed no further in this business’

Lady Macbeth manipulates Macbeth ‘durst do it’ quote.

‘When you durst do it, then you were a man’

Lady Macbeth ‘must not be thought’ quote.

‘These deeds must not be thought After these ways; so, it will make us mad.’

Lady Macbeth manipulates Macbeth ‘things without all remedy’ quote.

‘Things without all remedy Should be without regard. What’s done is done.’

Macbeth becomes immediately ambitious ‘rapt’ quote.

‘rapt withal’, ‘would they had stayed!’

Macbeth becomes immediately ambitious ‘horrid image’ quote.

‘why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair’

Macbeth becomes immediately ambitious ‘fantastical’ quote.

‘My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise’

Macbeth knows he does not need to commit murder, ‘stir’ quote.

‘Chance may crown me without my stir’

Banquo’s warning to Macbeth ‘instruments of darkness’ quote.

‘oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray ’s in deepest consequence’

Macbeth ‘stars’ quote.

’Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires’

Macbeth ‘door’ quote.

‘should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself’

Macbeth ‘angels’ quote.

‘his virtues will plead like angels’

Scotland is destroyed ‘dolor’ quote.

‘Each new morn New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows Strike heaven on the face, that it resounds As if it felt with Scotland, and yelled out Like syllable of dolor’

Scotland is destroyed ‘gash’ quote.

‘I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds’

Macduff ‘feel’ quote.

‘But I must also feel it as a man.’

‘Constrained things’ quote.

‘And none serve with him but constrainèd things Whose hearts are absent too.’

Macbeth and Duncan’s relationship ‘kinsman’ quote.

 ‘I am his kinsman and his subject’ ‘the gracious Duncan have I murdered’

Macbeth and Banquo’s relationship is destroyed, ‘noble partner’ quote.

‘My noble partner’, ‘I fear Thou played’st most foully for ’t’ ‘O treachery’, ‘thou mayst revenge’

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth relationship is destroyed ‘durst do it’ quote.

‘When you durst do it, then you were a man;’

Macbeth looses his religious security ‘amen’ quote.

'I had most need of blessing, and “Amen” Stuck in my throat.’

Macbeth looses his religious security ‘jewel’ quote.

‘Mine eternal jewel given to the common enemy of man’'

Macbeth’s peace is destroyed, ‘rancors’ quote.

‘Put rancors in the vessel of my peace’

Macbeth’s peace is destroyed, ‘sleep’ quote.

“Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more.”

Macbeth looses his sanity, and sees a…

‘horrible shadow, unreal mock’ry’

Macbeth looses his will to live ‘yellow leaf’ quote.

‘My way of life Is fall’n into the sere, the yellow leaf.’

Macbeth looses his will to live ‘nothing’ quote.

‘A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.’