MACBETH

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Macbeth

“I am settled, and bend up
Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.”(1,7,79-80)

“by doing everything
Safe toward your love and honor.”(1,4,27-28)

“I have done the deed”(2,2,14)

”She should have died hereafter.
There would have been a time for such a word.”(5,5,18-19)

Lady Macbeth

“That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold.
What hath quenched them hath given me fire.”(2,2,1-2)

“Infirm of purpose!
Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead
Are but as pictures.”(2,2,53-54)

“What’s the business,
That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley
The sleepers of the house?”(2,3,56-58)

King Duncan

“See, see, our honored hostess!
The love that follows us sometime is our trouble”(1,6,11-12)

Macduff

“Well, may you see things well done there. Adieu,
Lest our old robes sit easier than our new!”(2,4,40)

“Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word
Macduff is fled to England(4,1,146-147).

“Yet do not fear;
Scotland hath foisons to fill up your will,
Of your mere own. All these are portable,
With other graces weighed.”(4,3,89-90)

The Three Witches

“All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!”(1,3,50)

“All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!”(1,3,51)

BANQUO

“Let your highness
Command upon me, to the which my duties
Are with a most indissoluble tie
Forever knit.”(3,1,16-17)

The Murders

“We shall, my lord,
Perform what you command us.”(3,1,130)

“Well, let’s away and say how much is done.”(3,3,25)

Malcolm

“Let us seek out some desolate shade and there
Weep our sad bosoms empty.”(4,3,1)

“What I believe I’ll wail;
What know believe,”(4,3,9)

“were I king,
I should cut off the nobles for their lands,
Desire his jewels and this other’s house.
And my more-having would be as a sauce
To make me hunger more,”(4,3,80-81)

Lennox

”Or so much as it needs,
To dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds.
Make we our march towards Birnam.”(5,2,29-30)

Donalbain

“What should be spoken here, where our fate,
Hid in an auger-hole, may rush and seize us?
Let’s away. Our tears are not yet brewed.”(2,3,101)

Ross

“From Fife, great king,... began a dismal conflict,
Till that Bellona’s bridegroom, lapped in proof,
55Confronted him with self-comparisons,
Point against point, rebellious arm 'gainst arm,
Curbing his lavish spirit; and to conclude,
The victory fell on us.”(1,2,50-51)

Fleance

“The moon is down; I have not heard the clock.”(2,1,2)

“I take ’t ’tis later, sir.”(2,1,4)

Settings

Macbeth's house/castle

One of the places that Macbeth took place was in fact in Macbeth's own house. The horrific act that took place in that setting was king Duncan getting brutally murdered.

The death of Lady Macbeth occured at this place

The war took place at Macbeth castle, it was tbe army of England lead by Malcolm against Macbeth's 10 thousand soldiers.

Weather

In Macbeth, they use weather to describe anything that's bad about to happen or happening. For example "Each new morn
New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows
Strike heaven on the face,"(4,3,4-5) this shows that things are bad in there homeland until the widows stop howling and the wind calms the evil is getting better.

Malcolm castle

The act that took place in Malcolm's castle was Macbeth's army that he sent slaughtered Malcolm's wife, kids and his servants.

Topics for Themes

Power, Corruption, and Ambition

“Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,
As the weird women promised,”(3,1,1-2

“'Tis better thee without than he within.
Is he dispatched?”(3,4,15)

The Negative Effects of Guilt

“The castle of Macduff I will surprise,
Seize upon Fife, give to th' edge o' th' sword
His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls”(4,1,156-157) allow you to do more horrible things.

Appearance vs. Reality

“All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!”(1,3,51) When the witches deliver their predictions to Macbeth, he sees only the possibility of being king, and loses sight of the true nature of the witches: they are evil, even if they seem to bring good tidings.

Fate Vs. Free Will

Captain: “And fortune, on his damnèd quarrel smiling,
Showed like a rebel’s whore. But all’s too weak,
For brave Macbeth—well he deserves that name—
Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,”(1,216-17)

Macbeth: “If chance will have me king, why, chance may
crown me,
Without my stir.”(1,3,157-158)

Gender Roles and Relationships

Banquo: “You should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so.”(1,3,47-46)

Macbeth: “Bring forth men-children only,
For thy undaunted mettle should compose
Nothing but males.”(1,7,83-84)

Macduff: “O gentle lady,
'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak.
The repetition in a woman's ear
Would murder as it fell.”(2,3,96-97)

Symbols/Motifs

Violence

“'Tis better thee without than he within.
Is he dispatched?”(3,4,15)

"I have done the deed." (2,2,13-14

Hallucinations

“Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.”(2,1,33-34)

“ Hence, horrible shadow!
Unreal mockery, hence!”(3,4,110)

weather

“The night has been unruly. Where we lay,
Our chimneys”...(2,3,28-29)

Blood

“'Tis better thee without than he within.
Is he dispatched?”(3,4,15)

Prophecy

“All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!”(1,3,51)

“All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!”(1,3,50)

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