Macbeth Quotes

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Verbal Irony. Assume Macbeth is speaking about the death of Duncan but he is actually openly expressing his guilt which progresses
if i had died but an hour before this chance / i had lived a blessed time
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Macbeth concludes he has no real reason to kill Duncan other than his ambition to become king - foreshadows the danger of his unchecked ambition
but only/vaulting ambition which overlaps itself/ and falls on the other"
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Macbeth says this to himself after murdering Duncan. His guilt causes him to shake at every noise. His hands symbolize the murder.
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand? N
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Lady Macbeth as she sleepwalks and is an outward manifestation of her inward guilt. After the murder of Duncan, Lady Macbeth chides Macbeth for his lack of masculinity and tells him to forget the deed and move forward as king. and macbeth loses guilt
out, damned spot! out i say
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It is clear that Macbeth is insane. He sees witches on the moor. He sees a dagger in mid air that mocks him moments before killing the king. He sees Banquo's ghost sitting in his spot at the dinner table.
is this a dagger which i see before me / the handle toward my hand?
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LM has a sensitive side to her and that she does feel, not like the women that is presented at the start of the play. Moreover it further presents women as being emotionally controlled, which was thoroughly believed at the time.
Had he not resembled 
My father as he slept I had done't.
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Pathetic fallacy, creates an eerie atmosphere and the witches are seen as a gothic element
The shall we three meet again in thunder lightening or in rain
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Macbeth repeats the witches, clearly shows the connection that the two have clearly foreboding Macbeth will go to dark side
so foul and fair a day I have not seen
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Banquo here questions the fates, as finding out that Macbeth is now Thane of Cowder he is wondering about the witch’s prophecy. Banquo is in disbelief and Macbeth is planning to kill the king
What! can the devil speak true?
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LM talks to her husband as if she is talking down to a child; this clearly shows that she is in control of the situation.
Screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail
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LM fears that Macbeth has not done the deed, and that they will be getting caught for what they have done. This shows just how little LM knows her husband as he did commit the crime, this foreshadows his later change of character as he loses all gui
The attempt and not the deed,
Confounds us
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Macbeth cannot sleep because he is already asleep metaphorically, and real sleep would mean the riddance of guilt, yet both he and LM can’t do this.
You lack the season of all natures, sleep
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After hearing that Duncan will visit his castle, Macbeth finds himself fantasizing about seizing power for himself. He wishes to obscure these evil thoughts from outside observers.
Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires.
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Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here,
ady Macbeth wishes to act entirely cruelly, but her natural human disposition will prevent her from doing so.
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Biblical imagery.theme of appearance versus reality. While Macbeth still remains uncertain about whether he wishes to deceive and kill Duncan, Lady Macbeth is fully committed to the cruel idea.
Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
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Having decided moments earlier against murdering Duncan, Macbeth finds his manhood challenged by his wife.
I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none.
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Macbeth concludes he has no real reason to kill Duncan other than his ambition to become king - foreshadows the danger of his unchecked ambition

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but only/vaulting ambition which overlaps itself/ and falls on the other"

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Macbeth says this to himself after murdering Duncan. His guilt causes him to shake at every noise. His hands symbolize the murder.

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Card 4

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Lady Macbeth as she sleepwalks and is an outward manifestation of her inward guilt. After the murder of Duncan, Lady Macbeth chides Macbeth for his lack of masculinity and tells him to forget the deed and move forward as king. and macbeth loses guilt

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Card 5

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It is clear that Macbeth is insane. He sees witches on the moor. He sees a dagger in mid air that mocks him moments before killing the king. He sees Banquo's ghost sitting in his spot at the dinner table.

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