| “Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through the fog and filthy air.” Who? | (3) witches |
| “And often times to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles to betrays in deepest consequence.” Who? | Banquo |
| “And often times to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles to betrays in deepest consequence.” Context? | talking about witches and prophecy |
| “To find the mind’s construction in the face. He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust.” Who? | Duncan |
| “To find the mind’s construction in the face. He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust.” Context? | Duncan hears about Cawdor being put to death for treason |
| “The Prince of Cumberland. That is a step on which I must fall down or else o’erleap for in my way it lies stars hide your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires. The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be which the eye fears when it is done see.” Who? | Macbeth |
| “The Prince of Cumberland. That is a step on which I must fall down or else o’erleap for in my way it lies stars hide your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires. The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be which the eye fears when it is done see.” context? | Macbeth in an aside says he has to step over malcolm to get the crown |
| “Glamis thou art, and Cawdor and shalt be what thou art promised. Yet do I fear they nature.” Who? | Lady Macbeth |
| “Glamis thou art, and Cawdor and shalt be what thou art promised. Yet do I fear they nature.” Context? | Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth he is going to be king, but she doesn’t know if he has what it takes |
| “Come you spirits unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty.” Who? | Lady Macbeth |
| “Come you spirits unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty.” Context? | She is talking to herself and saying that she needs to act like a man in order to be able to commit this crime |
| “What beast was’t then, that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; and to be more than what you were you would be so much more the man.” Who? | Lady Macbeth |
| “What beast was’t then, that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; and to be more than what you were you would be so much more the man.” Context? | Lady Macbeth is questioning Macbeth’s manhood |
| “Bring forth men children only, for thy undaunted mettle should compose nothing but males.” Who? | Macbeth |
| “Bring forth men children only, for thy undaunted mettle should compose nothing but males.” Context? | Macbeth says Lady Macbeth should only have sons because she is only capable of being masculine |
| “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.” Who? | 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.” Context? | Macbeth is about to kill Duncan |
| “These deeds must not be thought after these ways; so, it will make us mad.” Who? | Lady Macbeth |
| “These deeds must not be thought after these ways; so, it will make us mad.” Context? | Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth that thinking about the murder will drive him crazy |
| “To Ireland I. Our separated fotune shall keep us both the safer. Where we are, there’s daggers in men’s smiles. The near in blood, the nearer bloody.” Who? | Donalbain |
| “To Ireland I. Our separated fotune shall keep us both the safer. Where we are, there’s daggers in men’s smiles. The near in blood, the nearer bloody.” | Duncan is found dead so his sons (Malcolm and Donalbain) flee |
| “Thou hast it now- King, Cawdor, Glamis, all as the Weird Women promised, and I fear thou played’st most foully for’t. Yet it was said it should not stand in thy posterity.” Who? | Banquo |
| “Thou hast it now- King, Cawdor, Glamis, all as the Weird Women promised, and I fear thou played’st most foully for’t. Yet it was said it should not stand in thy posterity.” Context? | Banquo doesn’t think Macbeth is an honest man anymore, and questions whether or not he killed Duncan |
Macbeth Review
August 21, 2019