Embark on a captivating journey through the dark and haunting world of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" with the comprehensive "Macbeth Quotebank." Designed specifically for GCSE students and lovers of literature, this meticulously curated collection is an invaluable resource for diving deep into th...
Captain -
‘for all’s too weak/For brave Macbeth’ - epithet (title: ‘brave Macbeth’) (Act 1 Scene 2)
Captain/Duncan -
‘brave’ and ‘noble’ Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 2) develops into -
Malcolm-
‘dead butcher’ and ‘abhorred tyrant’ (Act 5 Scene 9)
Macbeth -
‘This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good’ (Act 1 Scene 3)
Macbeth -
‘Stars hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.’ (Act 1 Scene 4)
Lady Macbeth -
‘It is too full o' the milk of human kindness’ (Act 1 Scene 5)
Lady Macbeth -
‘art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it’ (Act 1 Scene 5)
Lady Macbeth-
‘That I may pour my spirits in thine ears.’ (Act 1 Scene 5) Links to -
Young Siward - name that should not be spoken
‘The devil himself could not pronounce a title more hateful to mine ear’ (Act 5 Scene 7)
Lady Macbeth -
‘Tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here’ (Act 1 Scene 5)
Lady Macbeth -
‘come to my woman’s breasts and take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers’ (Act 1 Scene
5)
Macbeth -
‘I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition’
Lady Macbeth -
‘then you were a man’ (Act 1 Scene 7)
Macbeth -
‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?’ (Act 2 Scene 2)
Lady Macbeth -
‘My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white’ (Act 2 Scene 2)
Macbeth -
‘To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus’
Lady Macbeth -
‘nought’s had, all’s spent’ (Act 3 Scene 2)
Macbeth -
‘we have scorched the snake, not killed it’ (Act 3 Scene 2)
Macbeth -
‘o full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!’ (Act 3 Scene 2)
Macbeth -
‘now I am cabined, cribbed, confined’ (Act 3 Scene 4)
Macbeth-
‘I will tomorrow… to the weird sisters’ (Act 3 Scene 4)
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