Macbeth quotes

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

Act 1 - Ambition - Reveals Macbeth’s early awareness of his dark ambition and moral conflict.

Is this a dagger which is see before me?

Act 2 - Guilt and conscience - Highlights Macbeth’s psychological turmoil before Duncan’s murder.

I am in blood. Stepp’d in so far that… Returning were as tedious as go o’er

Act 3 - Corruption of power - Marks Macbeth’s acceptance of his moral corruption as inescapable.

She should have died hereafter.

Act 5 - Fate vs free will - Shows Macbeth’s emotional detachment and nihilistic outlook on life.

Lay on, Macduff, and damn’d be him that first cries. Hold, enough

Act 5 - Natural order and divine right of kings - Demonstrates Macbeth’s final defiance and tragic dignity in defeat.