“But all’s too weak/ for brave Macbeth…like Valour’s minion carved out his passage” | Valour, Macbeth, Act 1 |
“Stars, hide your fires,/ let not light see my black and deep desires” | Stars, Macbeth |
“My dearest partner of greatness” and “Unsex me here” and “take my milk for gall” | Lady Macbeth, 3 short quotes |
“Look like th’innocent flower,/ but be the serpent under’t.” | Serpent, The Macbeths |
“His virtues/ will plead like angels,” | Duncan, virtues |
“Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums/ and dashed the brains out” | Lady Macbeth, graphic imagery |
“There’s husbandry in heaven” | Banquo, heaven |
“To you they have showed some truth/ I think not of them;” | Banquo and Macbeth |
“Is this a dagger which I see before me,/ the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee:/ I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.” | Dagger |
“But wherefore could I not pronounce ‘Amen’?/ I had most need of blessing and ‘Amen'” | Religion, blessing |
“A little water clears us of this deed” (L.M.) and “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood/ clean from my hand?” (M.) | Water, the Macbeths |
“He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour” (M. about B.) | Banquo, wisdom |
“Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour” | Honor and Macbeth |
“Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One, two… Hell is murky.” | Lady Macbeth, spot |
“Make our faces vizards to our hearts” | Appearance vs reality, faces |
“Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day…with thy bloody and invisible hand” | Scarf up, bloody hand |
MACBETH EXAM QUOTES
December 11, 2019