Macbeth

English 11 Justin Wang

Block 2

Macbeth quotations collection

1. "Fair is foul, and foul is fair."

This quotation was been said at the very beginning of the play by the witches, which were known as weird sisters. Shakespeare indicated the standard of value in the imagination world that he created. It's also a dramatic irony which made us to think about it as the play continued on. Furthermore, it is also foreshadowing that not all the goodness will be accepted in that specific period of time, by saying that we have gain an insight that some evil thinking ideas might be work more effective.

2. "Sleep shall neither night nor day. Hang upon his pent-house lid."

From the quotation above we knew that once you put your force in making your ambitions came true, you have to be passionate whenever the time is and no matter what difficult situations you are facing.

3. "For brave Macbeth--well he deserves that name-- Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valour's minion carved out his passage Till he faced the slave; Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps, And fix'd his head upon our battlements."

While the witches indicated what Macbeth would act like, they were more likely already known what is he going to do the next.

4. "They Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe

Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,

Or memorize another Golgotha,

I cannot tell."

5. " If you can look into the seeds of time,

And say which grain will grow and which will not,

Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear

Your favours nor your hate.

When Macbeth met the weird sisters again, he was kind of lost his mind and conscious what exactly he was doing for that time. Explain

6. "The raven himself is hoarse

That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan

Under my battlements. Come, you spirits

That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,

7. And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full

Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood,

Stop up th'access and passage to remorse,

That no compunctious visitings of nature"

Lady Macbeth speaks these words in Act I, scene v, lines 36Ð'-52, as she awaits the arrival of King Duncan at her castle. We have previously seen Macbeth's uncertainty about whether he should take the crown by killing Duncan. In this speech, there is no such confusion, as Lady Macbeth is clearly willing to do whatever is necessary to seize the throne.

8. What are these,

So withered, and so wild in their attire,

That look not like th' inhabitants o' the earth,

And yet are on 't?

9. Her strength of purpose is contrasted with her husband's tendency to waver. This speech shows the audience that Lady Macbeth is the real steel behind Macbeth and that her ambition will be strong enough to drive her husband forward. At the same time, the language of this speech touches on the theme of masculinityÐ'-- "unsex me here / . . . / . . . Come to my woman's breasts, / And take my milk for gall," Lady Macbeth says as she prepares herself to commit murder. 8.

10. 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

11. The language suggests that her womanhood, represented by breasts and milk, usually symbols of nurture, impedes her from performing acts of violence and cruelty, which she associates with manliness. Later, this sense of the relationship between masculinity and violence will be deepened when Macbeth is unwilling to go through with the murders and his wife tells him, in effect, that he needs to "be a man" and get on with it.

12. "I am Thane of Cawdor:

If good, why do I yield to that suggestion

Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair

And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,

Against the use of nature? Present fears

13. What Macbeth had indicated from the above-mentioned quotation was that his ambition was growing dramatically as the time went by.

14. Are less than horrible imaginings;

My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,

Shakes so my single state of man that function

Is smothered in surmise, nothing is

But what is not."

15. In this soliloquy, which is found in Act I, scene vii, lines 1Ð'-28, Macbeth debates whether he should kill Duncan. When he lists Duncan's noble qualities (he "[h]ath borne his faculties so meek") and the loyalty that he feels toward his king ("I am his kinsman and his subject"), we are reminded of just how grave an outrage it is for the couple to slaughter their ruler while he is a guest in their house.

16. "Nothing in his life

Became him like the leaving it; he died

As one that had been studied in his death

To throw away the dearest thing he owed,

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