Macbeth theme quotes
- Created by: lilyelse
- Created on: 09-06-18 10:50
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- Macbeth
- Theme of Guilt
- "Dagger of the mind"
- Guilty conscience, what he's doing is wrong.
- "macbeth does muder sleep"'
- "i am in blood/ stepped in so far"
- "Out dammned spot"
- Lady Macbeth sleep walking, washing her hands
- "Dagger of the mind"
- Theme of gender
- "Take my milk for gall"
- She's neglecting her maternal powers, as she believes its her downfall
- "When you dust do it then you'll be a man"
- Men are powerful, women are weak
- "Look like th'inoccent flower but be the serpent under't
- "come to my women breast"
- "Unsex me here"
- LM thinks her femininity holds her back
- "Take my milk for gall"
- Theme of reality and appearances
- "Look like th'innocent flower but be the serpent under't"
- Serpent relates to the devil, re-enforcing supernatural.
- "Fair is foul, and foul is fair"
- Not everything is as it seems, good is evil.
- "nothing is but what it is not"
- Paradoxes create uncertainty
- "False face must hide what the false heart doth know"
- "Look like th'innocent flower but be the serpent under't"
- Theme of fate
- "Fate and metaphysical aid doth seem"
- LM thinks macbeth is fated to be kind
- "Chance may crown me without stir"
- "Poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage"
- Macbeth thinks by the end, he is nothing more than an actor on a stage, that can't control his life
- "Fate and metaphysical aid doth seem"
- Theme of ambition
- "Macbeth is not without ambition, but without"
- LM thinks macbeth isn't ruthless enough to get what he want
- Its macbeths fatal flaw
- "I have no spur but only vaulting ambition "
- Macbeth knows he's ambitious and this fuels what he does.
- "Macbeth is not without ambition, but without"
- Theme of loyalty and betrayal
- "service and loyalty"
- This is what the king describes macbeth as, little does he know he's going to be murdered by him
- "your servants as ever"
- LM pretends to have a loyalty to the king, even though she's plotting his murder
- Shakespeare juxtaposes LM's plots to kill duncan by welcoming him into the castle this makes her murdererous intentions for dramatic
- "his kinsman and his subject"
- Macbeth is initially loyal to the king- this makes it more shocking when he puts his own desires before his loyalty
- "service and loyalty"
- Theme of Guilt
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