Macbeth quotes (inc. possible themes for each one)

“I am in blood, stepp’d so far.. returning were as tedious as go o’ver” A2S4

• Guilt

• Innocence

• Murder + betrayal

• Violence

  (Hint: about Macbeth in blood)

“Hell is murky” A5S1

• Hell

• Innocence

• Guilt

• Mental illness

• Lady Macbeth

(Hint: LM’s sleepwalking)

“There are daggers in men’s smiles” A2S3

• Innocence

• Betrayal

• Trust

• Symbols

“Thou is too full o’th’milk of human kindness” A1S5

• Lady Macbeth

• Manipulation

• Masculinity

• Ambition

• Bravery

(Hint: Lady Macbeth pondering if Macbeth will get cold feet after getting his letter)

“Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires” A1S4

• Ambition

• Guilt

• Loyalty

• Masculinity

• Weather

• Banquo

(Hint: Macbeth after speaking to witches and seeing Dunc after execution)

“Who can be wise, amaz’d, temp’rate, and furious, loyal and neutral in a moment? No man.” A2S3

• masculinity

• Loyalty

• Macduff

• Kings

• Violence

  (Hint: Macbeth after everyone found out about Dunc’s death)

“Are you a man?” A3S2

• masculinity

• Lady Macbeth

• Manipulation

• Mental illness

(Hint: LM when Macbeth saw Banquo’s ghost)

“And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp” A2S4

• innocence

• Kings

• Weather

(Hint: scene between old man and Ross about how the world has changed after Dunc’s death)

“To know my deed were best to not know myself” A2S2

• Guilt

• Murder

• Shame

• Macbeth

(Hint: After Macbeth killed Dunc)

“A little water clears us of this deed” A2S2

• Lady Macbeth

• Guilt

• Mental illness

• femininity

• Murder

(Hint: LM’s lack of remorse for Dunc’s murder)

“No: this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine” A2S2

• murder

• Guilt

• Macbeth

• Innocence

(Hint: Macbeth’s response to Dunc’s murder, seas)

“There’s husbandry in heaven; their candles are out” A2S1

• supernatural

• Weather

• Innocence

• Kings

(How the heavens are affected by Duncan’s death)

“Was the hope drunk wherein you dress’d yourself? Hath it slept since?” A1S7

• Maniupulation

• Loyalty

• Ambition

• Masculinity

• Lady Macbeth

(Hint: LM’s response to M’s cold feet → something about hope being drunk)

“Ay in the catalogue ye go for men” A3S1

• masculinity

• Kings

• Manipulation

(Hint: when Macbeth is insulting the murderers)

“I shall do so, but first I must feel it as a man” A4S3

• Macduff

• Masculinity

• Love

(Hint: Macduff’s response to his children dying → emtoions)

“All my pretty chickens and their dam in one fell swoop” A4S3

• love

• Children

(Hint: Macduff speaking about his children and wife)

“Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself; within my sword’s length set him. If he scape, heaven forgive him too” A4S3

• Masculinity

• Supernatural/Hell

• Noble

• Weapons

• Violence

(Hint: Macduff saying that he wants to kill Macbeth)

“Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles” A5S1

• supernatural

• Mental illness

• Guilt

• Innocence

• Lady Macduff

(Hint: the doctor talking about LM’s sleepwalking)

“Here’s the smell of blood still, all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand” A5S1

• guilt

• Innocence

• Murder

• Femininity