Year 10 English Enrichment Semester 2: 'Macbeth' Quotes

Destroyed by witches ‘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.

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.

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.

Ancient magic ‘charm' quote.

‘Peace, the charm’s wound up’

Ancient magic ‘illusion’ quote.

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

Ancient magic ‘thrice’ quote.

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

Three rule?

The Pagan Rule of Three

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 manipulated ‘proceed’ quote.

‘We will proceed no further in this business’

Manipulation ‘durst do it’ quote.

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

Don’t think about it quote ‘must not be thought’

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

‘Things without remedy’ quote.

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

Macbeth immediately ambitious ‘rapt’

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

Macbeth immediately ambitious ‘horrid image’

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

Macbeth 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 murder ‘stir’

‘Chance may crown me without my stir’

Macbeth Banquo’s warning

‘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 destruction quote. ‘dolor’

‘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 destruction quote ‘gash’

‘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 relationship. ‘Kinsman’

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

Macbeth and Banquo relationship.

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

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth ‘durst do it’

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

Destruction of religious self ‘amen’ quote.

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

Destruction of religious self ‘jewel’ quote.

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

Destruction of peace ‘rancors’.

‘Put rancors in the vessel of my peace’

Looses peace ‘sleep’ quote.

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

Looses sanity, sees a

‘horrible shadow, unreal mock’ry’

Looses will to live yellow leaf quote.

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

Looses will to live ‘nothing’ quote.

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