Key quotes from Macbeth Exam/36 Questions
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fair is foul, and foul is fair (1.1) - -speaker? The three witches
meaning/significance? things aren't always what they seem
theme: appearance/reality
-And oftentimes, to win us to our harm
the instruments of darkness tell us truths,
win us with honest trifles, to betray's
In deepest consequence (1.3) - -speaker? Banquo (to Macbeth)
meaning/significance? A warning/fortelling of what will happen to Macbeth.
that evil tries to tempt us with half truth and it will lead us to our doom
-Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it (1.4) - -speaker? Malcom
(about Cawdor)
Meaning/significance? showing how a person can die with dignity/die well (by
repenting), also it contrasted a good death to Macbeth's death (bad death)
-If chance will have me King, why
Chance may crown me,
Without my stir. (1.3) - -Speaker? Macbeth
Meaning/significance? Macbeth is hoping he will not have to do anything to
become king, that fate will take care of it
theme: fate
-That is a step on which
I must fall down or o'er leap
Stars, hide your fires!
Let not light see my black and deep desires. (1.4) - -speaker? Macbeth (to
himself)
Meaning/significance? he is now commited to killing Duncan...it shows the
growth of evil in Macbeth... showing what side he is aligning with... first step
down a slipper slope
-Yet do I fear thy nature.
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way. (1.5) - -speaker? Lady Macbeth (to herself)
, Meaning/significance? L. Macbeth is worried about her husband's
wishwashiness... shows gender bending (shes crueler)
theme:gender bending
-Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full
Of direst cruelty! (1.5) - -speaker? Lady Macbeth
Meaning/significance? shows L.Macbeth siding with evil forces
themes: unnatural, gender bending
-Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under't. (I.5) - -speaker? Lady Macbeth (to Macbeth)
meaning/significance? L.Macbeth is telling her husband to lie and act
innocent
themes: appearance/reality
-I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
And falls on the other - (1.7) - -speaker? Macbeth
meaning/significane? showing Macbeth's only motivation is his ambition
theme: ambition
-I do all that may become a man
Who dares do more is none. (1.7)
When you durst do it, then you were a man; (1.7) - -speaker(s)? Macbeth-
>lady macbeth
meaning/significance? Lady Macbeth is convincing her to husband to "be a
man"... shows macbeths hesitance/humaness
theme: gender bending
-False face must hide what false heart doth know (1.7) - -speaker? macbeth
meaning/significance? Macbeth shows his commitment to putting up an act
of being innocent, choosing to hide things instead of confessing/repenting
theme:appearance/reality
-Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep"—the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care. (2.2) - -speaker? Macbeth
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fair is foul, and foul is fair (1.1) - -speaker? The three witches
meaning/significance? things aren't always what they seem
theme: appearance/reality
-And oftentimes, to win us to our harm
the instruments of darkness tell us truths,
win us with honest trifles, to betray's
In deepest consequence (1.3) - -speaker? Banquo (to Macbeth)
meaning/significance? A warning/fortelling of what will happen to Macbeth.
that evil tries to tempt us with half truth and it will lead us to our doom
-Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it (1.4) - -speaker? Malcom
(about Cawdor)
Meaning/significance? showing how a person can die with dignity/die well (by
repenting), also it contrasted a good death to Macbeth's death (bad death)
-If chance will have me King, why
Chance may crown me,
Without my stir. (1.3) - -Speaker? Macbeth
Meaning/significance? Macbeth is hoping he will not have to do anything to
become king, that fate will take care of it
theme: fate
-That is a step on which
I must fall down or o'er leap
Stars, hide your fires!
Let not light see my black and deep desires. (1.4) - -speaker? Macbeth (to
himself)
Meaning/significance? he is now commited to killing Duncan...it shows the
growth of evil in Macbeth... showing what side he is aligning with... first step
down a slipper slope
-Yet do I fear thy nature.
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way. (1.5) - -speaker? Lady Macbeth (to herself)
, Meaning/significance? L. Macbeth is worried about her husband's
wishwashiness... shows gender bending (shes crueler)
theme:gender bending
-Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full
Of direst cruelty! (1.5) - -speaker? Lady Macbeth
Meaning/significance? shows L.Macbeth siding with evil forces
themes: unnatural, gender bending
-Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under't. (I.5) - -speaker? Lady Macbeth (to Macbeth)
meaning/significance? L.Macbeth is telling her husband to lie and act
innocent
themes: appearance/reality
-I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
And falls on the other - (1.7) - -speaker? Macbeth
meaning/significane? showing Macbeth's only motivation is his ambition
theme: ambition
-I do all that may become a man
Who dares do more is none. (1.7)
When you durst do it, then you were a man; (1.7) - -speaker(s)? Macbeth-
>lady macbeth
meaning/significance? Lady Macbeth is convincing her to husband to "be a
man"... shows macbeths hesitance/humaness
theme: gender bending
-False face must hide what false heart doth know (1.7) - -speaker? macbeth
meaning/significance? Macbeth shows his commitment to putting up an act
of being innocent, choosing to hide things instead of confessing/repenting
theme:appearance/reality
-Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep"—the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care. (2.2) - -speaker? Macbeth
