Heroes vs Villains key quotes with analysis

“For brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name - // Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel, // which smoked with bloody execution, // like Valour’s minion carved out his passage”

“If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me // without my stir”

“Cannons over-charged with double cracks; // so they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe”

Stars, hide your fires; // let not light see my black and deep desires”

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

“Banquo, thy soul’s flight, // if it find heaven, must find it out tonight”

“Come, you spirits // that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here // and fill me from the crown to the topful // of direst cruelty”

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

“I would, white it was smiling in my face, // have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums // and dashed the brains out”

“O nation miserable, // with an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptred!”

“Bleed, bleed, poor country! // Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure, // for goodness dare not check thee”

“Hail, king! For so thou art. Behold where stands // th’ usurper’s cursed head.”

“What I am truly, // is thine and my poor country’s to command”

“By the grace of Grace, // we will perform in measure, time, and place”