Macbeth quotes

Witcthes - echoed by Macbeth, contradiction

'fair is foul and foul is fair'

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Captain - about's macbeth's ability on the battlefield, vivid imagery

'Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel which smok'd with bloody execution'

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Duncan - praises macbeth, refers to him as family

'O valiant cousin, worthy gentlemen'

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Ross - Foreshadows future events, previous thane of cawdor as a tratior

'Assisted by the most disloyal tratior, The thane of cawdor'

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Duncan - Macbeth gains title of thane of cawdor

'What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.'

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Macbeth - echoes the witches words, shows he is under their spell

'So foul and fair a day i have not seen.'

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Banquo - comical to an audience, refers to witches as men

'you should be women, yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so.'

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Captain - Contradicting statement, refers to Macbeth and Banquo defeating the enemy

'So they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe'

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Third witch - Last prediction, becoming the king

'All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter'

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Third witch - Prediction for Banquo

'Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.'

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Banquo - questions his and Macbeth's state of mind after seeing Witches

'Or have we eaten the insane root, that takes the reason prisoner?'

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Ross - bestows thane-ship onto Macbeth

'Call thee Thane of Cawdor'

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Macbeth - questions his thane-ship

'Why do you dress me in borrow'd robes'

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Macbeth - thinking of horrible images of death scares Macbeth

'Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair'

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Macbeth - He is more scared of these thoughts of murder than his present fears

'Present fears are less than horrible imaginings. My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical''

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Macbeth - wants to become king without his stir

'If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me without my stir.'

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Duncan - suggests people can not be trusted on their appearance, facial expressions

'There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face'

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Macbeth - Reveals ambitious intent to arguably kill the prince of Cumberland or else he must fall on one knee for him

'The prince of Cumberland: that is a step on which i must fall down, or else o'erleap'

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Macbeth - wants to hide his dark desire to murder and gain the crown

'Let not light see my black and deep desires'

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Lady Macbeth - Lady Macbeth fears her husband is too good

'Yet do I fear thy nature, It is too full o'th'milk of human kindness'

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Lady Macbeth - Wishes to control and manipulate Macbeth with help from spirits

'That I may pour my spirits in thine ear'

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Lady Macbeth - remove feminine features, replacing it with poison

'Come to my woman's breasts and take my milk gall'

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Lady Macbeth - ready to commit violent acts, ambitious

'I feel now the future is instant'

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Lady Macbeth - Macbeth reveals himself too much in his face

'Your face, my thane is a book where men may read strange matters'

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Lady Macbeth - ideas of duality, hide your evil intentions with a innocent facade

'look like th' innocent flower. But be the serpent under't'

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Duncan - ironic as Lady Macbeth arguably causes the 'trouble' in the play

'The love that follows sometimes is our trouble'

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Macbeth - shows macbeth's excessive ambition is like a horse that tries to jump too high and falls on the other side of the fence

'Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other'

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Lady Macbeth - belittles macbeth, suggests he could only be so foolish while in a lesser state of mind

'Was the hope drunk'

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Lady Macbeth - attacks macbeth's manhood suggesting he is a beast, not a man as he does not want to commit this act of ambition

'What beast was't then that made you break this enterprise to me?'

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Lady Macbeth - attacks macbeth's manhood, suggests he is not a man now that he will not commit the act

'When you durst do it, then you were a man'

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