Macbeth

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Quote Act 2 Scene 2 to show how Macbeth immediately regrets what he has done
''Sleep no more Macbeth does murder sleep,' the innocent sleep'
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Quote Act 2 Scene 2 to show how Lady Macbeth is ambitious
'Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead are but pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil'
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Quote Act 2 scene 2 to show how Lady Macbeth regrets what she has done also
'My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white'
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What is the porters purpose in the play?
To break the tension with the murder scene and to show how tension is already building in Scotland
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What does Macduff say in Act 2 Scene 3 that shows womens roles in Scotland in the time period?
'O gentle Lady, 'tis not for you to hear what I can speak. The repetion in a woman's ear would murder as it fell'
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Why does Donaldbain and Malcolm leaving create suspision?
People think they had something to do with the muder as they feld
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Quote Act 3 Scene 1 showing how Banquo has suspisions about what Macbeth has done
'Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis, all as the weird women promised, and I fear thou played'st most foully for't; yet it was said it should not stand in thy posterity'
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Quote Act 3 Scene 1 showing how men come in all different forms
'As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, shoughs, water-rugs and demi-woles are clept all by the name of dogs'
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Quote Act 3 Scene 2 to show how Macbeth's position is not yet secured
'We have scorched the snake, not killed it'
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Quote Act 3 Scene 2 showing how Macbeth now hides his ture intentions
'And make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are'
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Macbeth quote Act 3 Scene 2 about how his thoughts are poisoned by the witches prediction
'O, full of scorpions is my mind'
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Quote Act 3 Scene 2 on how Lady Macbeths ambition has switched to Macbeth
'Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, till thou apllaud the deed'
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Quote Act 3 Scene 6 showing how Lennox is suspisious of Macbeth
'The gracious Duncan was pitied of Macbeth; marry he was dead. And the valiant Banquo walked oo late, whom you may say, if't please you, Fleance killed, for Fleance fled'
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Quote Act 4 Scene 1 on Macbeth's second prediction
'Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth'
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Quote Aact 4 Scene 1 how Macbeth has turned ruthless
'The castle of Macduff I will suprise; ieze upon Fife; give to th'edge o'th'sword his wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls that trace him in his line'
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Quote Act 4 Scene 2 showing how Macduff's family thinks he is a taitor
'Fathered he is, yet fatherless'
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Quote Act 4 Scene 3 to show how Scotland has gone into turmoil thanks to Macbeth
'Of horrid hell can come a devil more damned in evil to top Macbeth'
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Quote Act 5 Scene 1 of Lady Macbeth revealing Macbeth's actions
'The thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now? Will these hands ne'er be clean?'
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Quote Act 5 Scene 1 showing how Lady Macbeth can never forget what she has done
'Here's the smell of blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand'
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Quote 5 Scene 3 showing how Macbeth is becoming cocky
'Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane I cannot taint wit fear'
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Quote Act 5 Scene 1 on Macbeth's reaction to Lady Macbeth's death
'Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that sturts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more'
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What is the purpose of Macbeth's hallucinations?
To scare the audience. We wonder if Macbeth is mad with fear and regret or whether it is a supernatural force that makes the dagger, then Banquo's ghost appear?
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At the end of the play, Macbeth faces certain death with bravery. What possible effect does this have on the audience?
We remember that he was a good man at the beginning of the play and feel sorry that someone so noble was brought so low.
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Quote Act 2 Scene 2 to show how Lady Macbeth is ambitious

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'Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead are but pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil'

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Quote Act 2 scene 2 to show how Lady Macbeth regrets what she has done also

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What is the porters purpose in the play?

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What does Macduff say in Act 2 Scene 3 that shows womens roles in Scotland in the time period?

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