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“fair is foul and foul is fair” “Jew..Tartar..Turk”
“Finger of a birth-strangled babe Ditch delivered by a drab”
Presents hallucinations in the play
“Will all great Neptune’s Ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”
Presents chaos and disorder in the play
“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition”
“Stars hide your fires; let not light see my back and deep desires” “Fair is foul and foul is fair”
Presents Lady Macbeth as an ambitious woman with influence over her husband // Presents Lady
Macbeth as a powerful character
“Look like th’ innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t”
“I may pour my spirits into thine ear” “Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers!”
“Fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty!”
Presents women in the play.
“I may pour my spirits into thine ear” “Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers!”
“His fiendlike queen, who as ‘tis thought, by self and violent hands took of her life”
“fair is foul and foul is fair” “Jew..Tartar..Turk”
Presents Lady Macbeth as an unstable character // Presents Lady Macbeths state of mind
“Will these hands ne’er be clean?”
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”
“His fiendlike queen, who as ‘tis thought, by self and violent hands took of her life”
Presents masculinity in the play.
“Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers!” “My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white”
“Brandished steel which smoked with bloody execution” “This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues
, Presents the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
“Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers!” “My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white”
“Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck…come seeling night”
Presents leadership in the play
“Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers!” “Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck…come seeling night”
“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition”
Presents ambition in the play // Presents Macbeths ambition
“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition”
“Stars hide your fires; let not light see my back and deep desires”
“Each corporal agent to this terrible feat”
Present the theme of guilt // Presents the issue of morality // Presents Macbeth as a man who
struggles with a guilty conscience // Presents Macbeth and his anxieties // Presents Macbeths
Inner conflict // Presents Macbeth’s state of mind // Macbeth as a troubled character
“Macbeth shall sleep no more” “Will all great Neptune’s Ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”
“O! Full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!” “Out, out brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow”
“My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white” “What’s done is done”
“Will these hands ne’er be clean?” “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”
“His fiendlike queen, who as ‘tis thought, by self and violent hands took of her life”
Presents Macbeth as a man who is in control
Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers!” “Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck…come seeling night”
“I may pour my spirits into thine ear”
Present Macbeth as a dangerous character //Present Macbeth as a powerful character // Presents
bravery in they play
“Brandished steel which smoked with bloody execution” “He unseamed him from the nave to th’ chops”
“Stars hide your fires; let not light see my back and deep desires”
“Not in the legions of horrid hell can come a devil more damned than Macbeth”
“His title hang loose about him, like a giants robe upon a dwarfish thief”
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