Macbeth gcse quotes

macbeth quotes for english gcse
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macbeths extreme ambition
(horse)
i have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition which overleaps itself
macbeth hiding his nobleness / deceit / crossing the king / treachery (stars)
stars hide your fires let not light see my black and deep desires
imperative, shows power,
tell me thou unknown power
macbeth saying that he will do the first thing that pops into his head - ambition, power (firstlings)
the very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand
macbeths determination to win the fight with macduff (bones)
ill fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked
lady macbeth imperative, demanding supernatural help
come you spirits unsex me here
lady macbeth telling macbeth to be something hes not - deception juxtoposition
look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under
lady macbeths confidence - hyping up macbeth
screw your courage to the sticking place and we will not fail
lady macbeth is concerned that macbeth is too kind
yet i do fear thy nature it is too full of milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way
lady macbeth emphasising their service they have done for the king
all our service in every point twice done and done the double
macbeths guilt (neptune)
will all neptunes ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? no
macbeths guilt keeping him up at night
macbeth shall sleep no more
macbeths guilt (amen)
i could not say amen
macbeths guilt, metaphor,lack of sleep unnatural (innocent)
macbeth does murder sleep innocent sleep
macbeth so guilty that he cannot name what he has done
i have done the deed
lady macbeth trying to reassure macbeth that you can just wipe off the guilt (little water)
a little water clears us of this deed
lady macbeth guilt hallucinating blood exclamatives
out dammed spot! out i say!
lady macbeth saying the guilt will never go
will these hands ever be clean?
lady macbeth saying she cant cover the guilt (perfumes arabia)
the smell of blood still all the perfumes of arabia will not sweeten this little hand
lady macbeth saying she can change her actions as theyre in the past
whats done cannot be undone
doctor saying bad actions lead to bad consequences
unnatural deeds do bread unnatural troubles
witches famous line - employs a paradox - foreshadows the deception of macbeth / witches symbolic of ---- but five ---- advice
fair is foul and foul is fair
witches implying there are 2 sides to every story
when the battles lost and won
banquo telling macbeths that people are often tricked by being given small truths
often times to win us to our harm the instruments of darkness tell us truths ... to betray
lady macbeth personification of knife implies self deception - knife is a symbol of herself
that my keen knife see not the wound it makes
semantic field of darkness implies reliance on what we can see - it makes us gullible
come thick night
duncan to macbeth situational irony describing him as noble
o valiant cousin worthy gentleman
macbeth being demanding - imperitives - spoken at witches
stay you imperfect speakers tell me more
macbeth hallucinating- draw to witches
is this a dagger i see before me?
lady macbeth wanting to have supernatural powers - imperative
come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts
lady macbeth asking to be less lady like
unsex me here
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