Macbeth quotes

Macbeth - Act 2 Scene 1

What quote shows guilt, supernatural and appearance vs. reality?

Hint: “Is this…”

"Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?"

Context: DROK, Daemonologie

Macbeth - Act 1, Scene 7

What quote shows ambition, guilt and appearance vs reality?

“False face must…”

"False face must hide what the false heart doth know"

Context: DROK, Daemonologie

Macbeth - Act 1, Scene 4

What quote shows ambition, supernatural, appearance vs reality, fate vs free will?

Hint: “Stars, hide…”

"Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires."

Context: GCOB, Tragic hero, Jacobean audience

Macbeth - Act 1, Scene 7

What quote shows supernatural, guilt, violence, fate vs free will?

Hint: “I have no spur…”

"I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself And falls on th' other"

Context: DROK, Daemonologie

Macbeth - Act 2, Scene 2

What quote shows guilt and ambition?

Hint: “Will all great Neptune’s…”

"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?"

Context: DROK, Tragic hero, Natural order

Macbeth - Act 1, Scene 7

What quote shows guilt, fate vs free will and sickness?

Hint: “Bloody instructions…”

"Bloody instructions which plague the inventor"

Context: GCOB, King James I

Macbeth - Act 1, Scene 2

Hint: “valour’s”

"valour's minion"

Macbeth - Act 1, Scene 2

Hint: “bloody…”

"bloody execution"

Macbeth - Act 2, Scene 1

What quote shows ambition and guilt?

Hint: “heat oppressed…”

"heat oppressed brain"

"thou marshall'st me the way that I was going"

Context: Jacobean beliefs, Patriarchy, Tragic hero

Macbeth - Act 3, Scene 4

Hint: “I am in blood…”

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

Macbeth - Act 4, Scene 1

What quote shows ambition, appearance vs reality and violence?

Hint: “Tell…”

"Tell me""call 'em"

Context: DROK, Daemonologie

Macbeth - Act 4, Scene 1

What quote shows fate, violence and fear?

Hint: “And take a…”

"And take a bond of fate" He will kill Macduff so that he can "tell pale-hearted fear it lies"

Context: Tragic hero, GCOB

Macbeth - Act 3, Scene 4

What quote shows guilt, fate vs. free will, appearance vs reality?

Hint: ‘Never shake…”

"Never shake thy gory locks at me"

Context: Jacobean beliefs, DROK, Daemonologie

Macbeth - Act 5, Scene 3

What quote shows ambition and guilt?

Hint: “Seyton…”

"Seyton, I am sick at heart"

"Bring me my armour"

Context: Jacobean beliefs, King James I, Tragic hero

Macbeth - Act 5, Scene 5

What quote shows fate vs free will and kingship?

Hint: ‘Life’s but…”

"Life's but a walking shadow' which is 'signifying nothing'

Context: DROK, Tragic hero

Lady Macbeth - Act 1, Scene 7

What quote shows ambition, appearance vs reality and violence?

Hint: “worthy C…”

LM shifts from calling M "worthy Cawdor!... all hail hereafter" to her use of the epithet "coward"

Context: Jacobean beliefs, DROK, GCOB

Lady Macbeth - Act 2, Scene 2

What quote shows ambition and guilt?

Hint: “Give me…”

"Give me the daggers; the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures"

Context: DROK, GCOB

Lady Macbeth - Act 1, Scene 7

What quote shows appearance vs reality, violence and supernatural?

Hint: “But screw…”

"But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail"

Context: Patriarchy, DROK

Lady Macbeth - Act 1, Scene 7

What quote shows violence, guilt and ambition?

Hint: “When you durst…”

"When you durst do it, then you were a man."

Context: GCOB, Patriarchy

Lady Macbeth - Act 1, Scene 5

What quote shows ambition and supernatural?

Hint: “Look like th’…”

“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't"

Context: DROK, Daemonologie

Lady Macbeth - Act 1, Scene 5

What quote shows ambition and guilt?

Hint: “Come thick…”

"Come thick night and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell."

Context: DROK, Daemonologie

Lady Macbeth - Act 1, Scene 5

What quote shows supernatural, gender and ambition?

Hint: “Come you…”

"Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here."

Context: Patriarchy, Seven deadly sins

Lady Macbeth - Act 2, Scene 2

What quote shows gender, guilt and violence?

Hint: “My hands are…”

"My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white"

Context: Patriarchy, DROK, Tragic hero

Lady Macbeth - Act 1, Scene 7

What quote shows gender, ambition and violence?

Hint: “I would, while it was smiling…”

"I would, while it was smiling in my face, have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums , and dash'd the brains out"
Context: Patriarchy, Tragic Hero

Lady Macbeth - Act 5, Scene 1

What quote shows guilt and disturbed mental state?

Hint: “Out…”

"Out, damned spot, Out I say"

Context: Jacobean Beliefs, Patriarchy, Tragic Hero

Lady Macbeth - Act 2, Scene 2

What quote shows guilt and gender?

Hint: “A little…”

"A little water clears us of this deed"
Context: DROK, Patriarchy, Tragic Hero

Lady Macbeth - Act 5, Scene 1

What quote shows gender, ambition and appearance vs reality?

Hint:”All the…”

"All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand."

Context: Seven deadly sins, DROK

Lady Macduff - Act 4, Scene 2

Hint: “His flight…”

"His flight was madness"

Witches - Act 1, Scene 3

What quote shows supernatural, violence and ambition?

Hint: “Thrice to…”

"Thrice to thine and thrice to mine, and thrice again, to make up nine."
Context: Daemonologie, GCOB

Witches - Act 1, Scene 3

What quote shows appearance vs reality, violence and ambition?

Hint: “All hail…”

"All hail, Macbeth that shalt be King hereafter!"

Context: Daemonologie, GCOB

Witches - Act 1, Scene 1

What quote shows supernatural, fate vs free will and appearance vs reality?

Hint: ”Fair is…”

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair”

Context: Daemonologie, Natural order

Witches - Act 1, Scene 3

Hint: “shall live…”

The witches claim that the shipman "shall live a man forbid"

Witches - Act 1, Scene 3

Hint: “shall sleep…”

The witches claim that the shipman "shall sleep neither night not day"

Witches - Act 1, Scene 3

What quote shows fate vs free will, supernatural and ambition?

Hint: “The weird…”

"The weird sisters, hand in hand"

Context: Daemonologie, Natural order

Witches - Act 1, Scene 3

Hint: “drain him…”

The witches will "drain him dry as hay" (talking about the shipman)

Witches - Act 4, Scene 1

What quote shows ambition, guilt and violence?

Hint: “By the…”

"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes"

Context: Daemonologie, GCOB

Banquo - Act 1

What quote shows ambition, appearance vs reality and violence?

Hint: “look not…”

"look not like th'inhabitants o'th'earth"

Context: Patriarchy, King James I

Banquo - Act 1, Scene 3

What quote shows supernatural, fate vs free will and appearance vs reality?

Hint: “instruments…”

B describes the witches as "instruments of darkness" which "win us to our harm"

Context: Jacobean beliefs, Natural order

Banquo - Act 1, Scene 3

What quote shows fate vs free will, supernatural and ambition?

Hint: “If you can…”

"If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not"

Context: Daemonologie, DROK

Banquo - Act 1, Scene 3

What quote shows supernatural, fate vs free will and appearance vs reality?

Hint: “What, can the…”

"What, can the devil speak true?"

Context: Daemonologie, Natural order

Banquo - Act 1, Scene 4

What quote shows loyalty vs betrayal, ambition and fate vs free will?

Hint: “Noble Banquo…”

"Noble Banquo, thou hast no lest deserved Nor must be known no less to have done so."

Context: DROK, King James I, GCOB, Jacobean beliefs

Banquo - Act 3, Scene 1

What quote shows ambition, appearance vs reality and violence?

Hint: “But that myself…”

"But that myself should be the root and father... Of many kings."

Context: King James I, DROK

Banquo - Act 3, Scene 3

What quote shows ambition, guilt and violence?

Hint: “O treachery…”

"O treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! Thou mayst revenge."

Context: King James, GCOB

Banquo - Act 3, Scene 1

What quote shows fate and disturbed mental state?

Hint: “embrace the…”

Banquo's son must "embrace the fate of thar dark hour"

Context: King James I, DROK

Macduff - Act 2, Scene 3

What quote shows kingship, guilt and ambition?

Hint: “O horror….”

"O horror, horror, horror!"

"Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee!..."

Context: Jacobean beliefs, Natural order

Macduff’s - Act 4

What quote shows gender, appearance vs reality and ambition?

Hint: “I am…”

"I am not treacherous"

Context: DROK, Patriarchy

Macduff - Act 5, Scene 8

What quote shows ambition, appearance vs reality and supernatural?

Hint: “I have no…”

"I have no words; my voice is in my sword."

Context: GCOB, King James I

Macduff - Act 4, Scene 3

What quote shows ambition, appearance vs reality and violence?

Hint: “With an untitled…”

"With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptered, When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again?"

Context: DROK, Patriarchy

Macduff - Act 4, Scene 3

What quote shows kingship, violence and appearance vs reality?

Hint: “bleed, bleed…”

"bleed, bleed poor country!"

"Great tyranny"

"Wear thou thy wrongs"

Context: Jacobean beliefs, King James I

Macduff - Act 5, Scene 8

What quote shows fate vs free will, kingship, gender and supernatural?

Hint: “Macduff was from…”

"Macduff was from his mother's womb untimely ripp'd"

Context: Jacobean beliefs, Daemonologie, DROK

Macduff - Act 4, Scene 3

What quote shows gender, violence and revenge?

Hint: “dispute it…”

When Malcolm tells Macduff he must "dispute it like a man" (the killing of his wife and children at the hands of Macbeth) he claims he "shall do so but he must also feel it as a man" first.

Context: Patriarchy, King James I, Religion

Malcolm - Act 4, Scene 3

What quote shows violence, appearance vs reality and gender?

Hint: “Let grief…”

"Let grief convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it."

Context: Patriarchy, DROK

Malcolm - Act 5, Scene 9

What quote shows violence, appearance vs reality and gender?

Hint: “He’s worth more…”

"He's worth more sorrow, and that I'll spend for him."

Context: Patriarchy, DROK

Malcolm - Act 5, Scene 9

What quote shows gender, appearance vs reality and guilt?

Hint: “By the grace…”

"By the grace of Grace, We will perform in measure, time and place."

Context: DROK, Patriarchy