MACBETH QUOTES

Act 1 scene 1

“upon the heath” - setting

“In thunder, lightning, or in rain” - pathetic fallacy

“fair is foul and foul is fair” - paradox

theme of supernatural and appearance vs reality 

characters of the witches - recall that King james held witch trials due to belief that witches were tied to the devil which was bad cause christian society

establishes a foreboding atmosphere

Act 1 Scene 3

M and B meet the witches oooo

“so foul and fair a day I have not seen” - paradox

“you should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so”

“Hail Macbeth” - repetition

“that shalt be king hereafter” 

“lesser than macbeth but greater”

Act 1 Scene 4

“stars hide your fires, let light not see my black and deep desires” - apostrophe

Act 1 Scene 5

“my dearest partner of greatness” - noun phrase “partner”

“pour my spirits in thine ear”

“unsex me here” - imperative voice

“make thick my blood” - imperative voice

“look like th’ innocent flower but be the serpent under’t” - biblical allusion

Act 1 scene 7

“was hope drunk wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since?”

“when you durst do it, then you were a man”

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

“If we should fail?” / “We fail?”

“Bring forth men children only for thy undaunted mettle should compose nothing but males”