Macbeth theme quotes

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  • Created on: 02-03-18 09:14

Appearance vs Reality

Witches -- Fair is foul, and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air

Macbeth -- So foul and fair a day I have not seen

-- False face must hide what the false heart doth know

-- Mine eyes are made the fools o' th' other senses, Or else worth all the rest

Duncan -- He [previous Thane of Cawdor] was a gentleman on whom I built An absolute trust

-- Fair and noble hostess, We are your guest to-night [fair is foul]

Lady Macbeth -- bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue; look like th' innocent
    flower, But be the serpent under't

-- Why do you make such faces? When all's done, You look but on a stool

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Supernatural

Witches -- Fair is foul, and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air

-- Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble

Banquo -- That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' Earth And yet are on 't?—Live you? Or are you aught That man may question?

-- Speak, then, to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favors nor your hate

-- Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner?

Lady Macbeth -- Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty

Hectate -- And I, the mistress of your charms, The close contriver of all harms, Was never call'd to bear my part, Or show the glory of our art?

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Fate vs Free will

Captain -- Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel, Which smoked with bloody execution

Witches -- Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter

Banquo -- Look, how our partner's [Macbeth] rapt. [seized]

Macbeth -- If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir

-- Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires

-- thou marsha'lst me the way I was going

--Rather than so, come fate into the list, And champion me to th' utterance

-- Macbeth shall never be vanquished until great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane shall come.

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Ambition

Lady Macbeth -- Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it

Macbeth --   I have no spur To ***** the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition

-- My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,

-- Why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair

-- Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?

-- To the last syllable of recorded time And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death

Ross -- 'Gainst nature still! Thriftless ambition

Banquo -- Speak, then, to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favors nor your hate

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Gender

Banquo -- You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so

Lady Macbeth -- That I may pour my spirits in thine ear And chastise with the valoor of my tongue

-- unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty

-- Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale

-- Have plucked my ****** from his boneless gumsAnd dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.

Macbeth -- I dare do all that may become a man

-- Bring forth men-children only, For thy undaunted mettle should compose Nothing but males

Maduff -- O gentle lady, tis not for you to hear what I can speak.

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