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Lady Macbeth Act 1
“Yet I do fear thy nature is too full o’ the milk of human kindness”
“Unsex me here”
“Fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty”
“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t”
“Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums and dash’d the brains out”
Thematic statements
Ambition- “In Macbeth, Shakespeare portrays ambition not as an uncontrollable force, but as a temptation that characters consciously submit to in their pursuit of power, leading to their moral and eventual physical hamartia.”
The supernatural- “Shakespeare explores the supernatural in Macbeth as a manipulative influence that magnifies suppressed desires, suggesting that those who seek power through unnatural means are doomed to self-destruction.”
Guilt - “Shakespeare explores guilt in Macbeth as a consequence of violating the natural and divine order, illustrating how a guilty conscience torments the soul and severs the individual’s connection with God.”
Lady Macbeth Act 2
“My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white”
Lady Macbeth Act 3
“It’s the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil”
“A little water clears us of this dead”
“Are you a man?”
Lady Macbeth Act 5
“Out, out damned spot!”
“What’s done cannot be undone”
Macbeth Act 1
“Foul and fair a day I have not seen”
“Stay you imperfect speakers, tell me more”
“O valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman!”
“Stars hide your fires, let not light see my deep and dark desires”
“Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself”
Banquo Act 1
“ Oftentimes, to win us to our harm the instruments of darkness tell us truths”
Macbeth Act 2
“is this a dagger which I see before me”
“Proceeding from the heat oppressed brain”
“But wherefore could I not pronounce ‘Amen’”
Macbeth Act 3
“Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown”
“ O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!”
“Be innocent of the knowledge”
“The tables full”
Apparitions
“A child crowned with a tree in its hand”
“Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him”
“An external curse fall on you!”
Banquo Act 3
“I fear thou play’dst most foully for’t”
Macduff Act 4
“But I must also feel it as a man”
“Fit to govern!/ No, not fit to live
Macbeth Act 5
“Out, out, brief candle”
“Life’s but a walking shadow”
“Macduff was from his mothers womb, untimely ripped”
“I will not yield”
Witches
Fair is foul and foul is fair
By the pricking of my thumbs something wicked this way comes