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Macbeth essential quotes
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- English Literature
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Lecture notes of 3 pages for the course English Literature at GCSE (Quotes from Macbeth)
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Macbeth: Key scenes with quotations. Start off by learning these quotations and key moments in the play.Quotation What is happening What it means Language device Link with context
1.1 (Witches) “Fair is foul and foul Witches await Macbeth. Everything is reversed, unnatural, Oxymoron, repetition Witchcraft
1 is fair” distorted.
1.3 (Banquo) “The instruments of Witches talk to Banquo and Banquo believes the witches’ Metaphor Tragedy/fate; belief
2 darkness tell us truths” Macbeth. prophecy, but fears what the effect in the supernatural
might be.
1.3 (Banquo) “New horrors come Banquo comments on the effect of Macbeth appears transformed by the Simile; motif of clothes Belief in the
3 upon him, like our strange the witches’ prophesy. thought that he may be king. supernatural
garments”
1.5 (Lady Macbeth) Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy, wishing She wants to be more like a man, to Imagery, unusual and Role of women,
4 “Come, you spirits that tend on her husband was more decisive take charge herself. powerful verb (“unsex”) patriarchal society
mortal thoughts, unsex me here” and less scrupulous.
1.5 (Lady Macbeth) Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy, She wants to become evil, cruel – to Metaphor, imagery of light Fate, the concept of
5 “Come, thick night, and pall thee following the news that Duncan turn to the dark side. and dark evil, role of women
in the dunnest smoke of hell” will visit. She is plotting his death.
1.7 (Macbeth) Macbeth is worrying about killing If he has to kill Duncan, he wants to Repetition Regicide, Divine Right
6 “If it were done when ‘tis done, King Duncan. get it over with rapidly. He is having of Kings
then ‘twere well it were done doubts.
quickly”
1.7 (Macbeth) Macbeth is worrying about killing He fears his aim to become ruler may Metaphor Regicide, Divine Right
7 “Vaulting ambition, which King Duncan. lead him to make a tragic mistake.
o’erleaps itself and falls on the
other”
1.7 (Lady Macbeth) Lady Macbeth tries to talk her She is insulting Macbeth, insinuating Metaphor Patriarchal society,
8 “Was the hope drunk wherein you husband into killing King Duncan. that he is a coward who merely reversal of gender
dress’d yourself?” pretended to be courageous. stereotypes
1.7 (Lady Macbeth) Lady Macbeth tries to talk her She would rather have killed her own Hyperbole, violent verbs Reversal of gender
9 “I would, while it was smiling in husband into killing King Duncan. child than to backtrack on the plan to (‘pluck’d’ and ‘dash’d’) stereotypes
my face, have pluck’d my nipple kill Duncan, as Macbeth is trying to
from his boneless gums, and do.
dash’d the brains out, had I so
sworn as you have done to this.”
2.1 (Macbeth) Macbeth is preparing to kill King He is imagining the murder weapon – Imagery Regicide
1 “Is this a dagger that I see before Duncan and hallucinates. possibly the sign of a guilty mind.
0 me, the handle toward my hand?”
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