Macbeth character quotes

internal, external effects of his downfall, soliloquy, his realtionship with Lady Macbeth and Lady Macbeth quotes

Soliloquy

helps us empathise and gain insight into what the charcter is truly feeling.

1,3

“if ill then why hath it given my earnest of success”

“if good then why do i suggest to the suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair”

“if chance will have my king , why chance will crown me without my stir”

1,7 karma

“bloody instruction that taught, return to plague th’inventor”

1,4

“The Prince of Cumberland, that is a step on which I must fall down or else o’erleap”

1,7 Macbeth is against the plan

“First I am his kinsman and subject, strong both against the deed”

“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition which o’erleaps and falls on the other”

2,1 Macbeth Hallucinates

“Is this a dagger which I see before me…come let me clutch thee”

“Thou marshall’st me the way that I was going”

“Or art thou but a dagger in my mind, a false creation”

2,2 - Macbeth guilt ridden

“What hands are here, H, they pluck out mine eyes”

“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand”

“Wake Duncan with thy knocking, I would if thou couldst”

3,1 - insecure of Banquo

“To be thus is nothing but to be safely thus”

“There is none but him whose being I do fear and under him my genius rebuked”

“They hailed him a father to a line of kings and upon my head placed a fruitless crown”

“Rather than so, come Fate, into the list and champion me to th’utterance

4,1 - Macbeth fears Macduff

“Macduff what I need fear of thee, But still I’ll make assurances double sure”

“Seize to Fife, give to th’edge o’th sword. His wife, his babes and all unfortunate souls that trace him to his line”

5,3 - Macbeth weak

“I have lived long enough, my way of liffe is fall’n into the sere”

“That which should accompany old age, as honour, love, obediance, troops of friends, I must not look to have”

5,5 - horror filled thoughts

“Direness familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannont once start me”

“The way dusty death, Out, out brief candle”

Relationship between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth

1,5

“Yet I do fear thy nature is too full o’th milk of human kindness”

“I may pour my spirits in thine ear”

1,7 - disagreement

“We will proceed no further in this business”

“When you durst do it then you were a man”

“I am settled, and bend upon each corporal agent to this terrible feat”

2,2 - Lady Macbeth is the dominant role in the relationship

“These deeds must not be thought. After these ways, so it will make us mad”

“Give me the daggers”

2,2 - blood on the hands

“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hands”

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

3,2 - Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are unhappy

“Noughts all spend, where our desire is got without content”

3,2 - Macbeth’s mind

“You must leave this”

“O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife”

3,2 - Macbeth no longer needs Lady Macbeth

“What’s to be done”

“Be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck”

3,4 - Lady Macbeth defends Macbeth

“Sit worthy friends, My lord is often thus, And hath been from his youth”

“Think of this, good peers, but as a thing of custom tis no other”

5,3 - Macbeth on Lady Macbeth’s illness

“Cure her of that, Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased”

“find her disease, and purge it to a sound and pristine health”

5,5

“She should have died hereafter”

“The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle”

5,5 - Macbeth will die on the battlefield

“At least we will die with harness on our back”