Macbeth Quotes

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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”

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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.”

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Lady Macbeth Act 2

  • “My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white”

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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?”

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Lady Macbeth Act 5

  • “Out, out damned spot!”

  • “What’s done cannot be undone”

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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”

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Banquo Act 1

  • “ Oftentimes, to win us to our harm the instruments of darkness tell us truths”

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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’”

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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”

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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!”

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Banquo Act 3

  • “I fear thou play’dst most foully for’t”

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Macduff Act 4

  • “But I must also feel it as a man”

  • “Fit to govern!/ No, not fit to live

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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”

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Witches

  • Fair is foul and foul is fair

  • By the pricking of my thumbs something wicked this way comes