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Quotation	Character	Theme	Explanation	% Correct
Unsex me here	Lady Macbeth	Bravery (being a man)	Lady Macbeth wants to be like a man who is able to do unkind things	62%
The milk of human kindness.	Lady Macbeth (referring to Macbeth)	Bravery (being a man)	Metaphor - milk comes from mother so LM is saying macbeth is like a woman because he is so kind.	45%
Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other.	Macbeth	Ambition	Metaphor - uses a horse to show how too much ambition leads to failure.	42%
Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t	Lady Macbeth (referring to Macbeth)	False appearances	Simile - demonstrates false appearances. The serpent is deceiving as it is the animal that tricked Adam and Eve	38%
Fair is foul and foul is fair	Witches	False appearances	Contrast and foreshadowing - shows how things aren’t what they seem to be	31%
Come to my women’s breasts and take my milk for gall you murdering ministers	Lady Macbeth	Good and Evil	Metaphor - the poison is a metaphor for cruelty. Previously milk was compared to kindness and it gives life to babies when they are born. Gall is the opposite so it represents cruelty.	29%
Out, out damned spot	Lady Macbeth	Guilt	Metaphor describing how the guilt will never go away no matter how much LM wants it to	28%
Screw your courage to the sticking place	Lady Macbeth (referring to Macbeth)	Bravery (being a man)	LM is telling macbeth to be braver. (Hint: begins with screw)	27%
My hands are of your colour but I shame to wear a heart so white	Lady Macbeth (referring to Macbeth)	Bravery (being a man)	Metaphor with white heart meaning kind, Contrast between the red and white colours.	21%
Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires	Macbeth	False Appearances + Ambition	Contrast - Macbeth doesn’t want anyone to shed light on his plans, contrast between black and light emphasises how evil his thoughts are. Stars may also link to the heavens - Macbeth doesn’t want God to know what he is doing.	21%
Is this a dagger which I see before me.	Macbeth	Ambition	Metaphor - for macbeths ambition guiding him towards killing duncan	16%
Be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck	Macbeth referring to Lady Macbeth	Power	Dearest chuck is putting LM down. Macbeth has begun to be stronger than LM. He has not told LM something.	15%
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.	Lady Macbeth	Guilt	Metaphor - the blood will never go away as it represents guilt which is there for ever.	14%
Will all great Neptune's oceans wash this blood clean from my hand	Macbeth	Guilt	Metaphor - the blood will never wash away as it represents guilt which is there for ever.	14%
Come you spirits	Lady Macbeth	Good and Evil	LM invokes the supernatural, witchcraft is punishable by hanging. Defies social conventions of the time.	13%
False face must hide what false heart doth know.	Macbeth	False appearances	This is because faces are what you use to greet people and how people judge your emotions however your heart is where emotions are perceived to really happen	12%
There’s daggers in mens smiles (said by Donaldbain before going to Ireland)	Donaldbain	False appearances	Metaphor - for how people are putting up false appearances when secretly they’d like people to be murdered	11%
In thunder, lightning or in rain	Witches	Order and disorder	Pathetic fallacy - gives a sense of chaos due to weather rapidly changing. This also shows how the witches can control the weather.	9%
My battlements	Lady Macbeth	Bravery (being a man)	It was unusual for women to own property in 11th century Scotland or Jacobean England so it is strange that Lady macbeth refers to the castle as hers.	9%
Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t	Lady Macbeth	Bravery (being a man)	First sign of weakness in LM	8%
Out, out brief candle	Macbeth	Guilt	Metaphor - describing how Human life is like a flame, easily snuffed out. Echoes out damned spot showing it was the guilt that killed LM as it made her life fragile.	8%
Why do you dress me in borrowed robes	Macbeth	Trust and Betrayal	Metaphor - of clothes not fitting to describe how macbeth is saying how he doesn’t deserve the title	8%
Don’t shake your gory locks at me	Macbeth referring to Banquo’s ghost	Guilt	Describes how Macbeth is scared of what he has done contrasting Macbeth’s evil actions with Banquo's good actions	7%
Double double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble.	Witches	Good and Evil	Trochees - The opposite of iambs which are used in natural speech, therefore makes the listener feel uncomfortable just like witches would. (the first line the witches say in act 4)	7%
O full of scorpions is my mind dear wife	Macbeth	Guilt	Macbeth is starting to break apart from everything he has done. The guilt is consuming him	7%
Plucked my nipple from his boneless gums	Lady Macbeth	Ambition	This is demonstrative of LMs desire for Macbeth to be king and also her cruelty	7%
The raven himself is hoarse	Lady Macbeth	Order and disorder	Metaphor - the raven represents death	7%
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage	Macbeth	Consequences of actions	Simile - Macbeth describes life as meaningless which shows he is not afraid of the consequences of his actions	6%
So fair and foul a day I have not seen.	Macbeth	False appearances	Macbeth’s language mirrors the witches language. This is a subtle suggest that Macbeth is not as good as he seems	6%
But wherefore could I not pronounce amen	Macbeth	Consequences of actions	Macbeth can not say amen which is a word used at the end of prayers. However now macbeth has done something so evil that he can not even say a word that associates him with god	5%
Dead butcher and his fiend like queen.	Malcolm	Power and abuse of power	This demonstrates how tyrannical Macbeth was and how evil LM was	5%
From the nave to the chaps	The captain (referring to Macbeth)	Bravery (being a man) + Good and evil	Contrast - between doing something violent however he does it for the king which is good	5%
Pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell	Lady Macbeth	Good and Evil	This is so God won’t judge LM and see what she is doing. Through the medieval period people were devout christians so they would be very scared of being judged by God	5%
Be so much more the man	Lady Macbeth (referring to Macbeth)	Bravery (being a man)	Alliteration - Emphasises the word man which is what LM says macbeth isn’t	4%
He has killed me mother	Macduff’s son	Power and abuse of power	Contrast - Mother contrasted with death demonstrates macbeths tyranny and ruthlessness as he has needlessly killed a boy	3%
Help me hence ho	Lady Macbeth	Power and Abuse of power	Lady Macbeth says this to distract the characters from macbeth’s unnecessary killing of the guards	3%
This castle hath a pleasant seat	Duncan	False appearances + kingship	Dramatic Irony - This shows how Duncan is not a good king as he misjudges the castle.	3%
Tis said they eat each other.	Old man	Order and disorder	Metaphor - describes how the world has gone mad. Horses re also animals that belong to kings.	3%
With Tarquins ravishing strides	Macbeth	Ambition	Metaphor - for how his ambition compels him to murder the king just like a roman person was compelled to rape someones wife	3%
I am stepped in blood so far	Macbeth	Consequences of actions	Macbeth knows that he has murdered so many people that there is no point to stopping as he is already going to hell so the punishment won’t get worse.	2%
Murder is yet fantastical	Macbeth	Ambition	This shows how the first thing macbeth thinks about after hearing he will be king is murdering the current one	2%
No man of woman born shall ever have power upon thee.	Witches	False appearances	The witches trick Macbeth into a false sense of security leading to his ultimate demise	2%
Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed	Old man	Order and disorder	Metaphor - describes how macbeth is wrong to kill the king and should be subservient to him just like an owl is to a hawk	2%
[Cry of women within] (stage direction.)	Lady Macbeth (heard by Macbeth)	Consequences of actions	The fact that LM isn’t introduced until act 1 scene 5 and leaves during act 5 scene 5 shows how she isn’t the key character - Macbeth is. (stage direction)	1%
If I had so sworn	Lady Macbeth (referring to Macbeth)	Trust and Betrayal	Macbeth never has promised to kill Duncan but LM is manipulative so says this	1%
Not in our house	Lady Macbeth	False appearances	Lady Macbeth slips up and is not worried about the king being dead but worried about it happening in her castle	1%
We rest your hermits (meaning we will pray for you)	Lady Macbeth (referring to Duncan)	False appearances	Dramatic Irony - The audience knows LM wants Duncan dead however he she wants to pray for him.	1%
You shall get kings	Witches (referring to Banquo)	Kingship	Banquo is the embodiment of a good king as he is kind and shuns the supernatural. Unlike macbeth.	1%
I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked.	Macbeth	Bravery (being a man)	Demonstrates how macbeth even at the end of the play when he knows he is doomed is till brave	0%
Let's make us medicines of our great revenge	Malcolm	Kingship	Metaphor - describes how Malcolm will heal his broken country like medicine heals people	0%