Macbeth important quotes for test:Fair is foul, and foul is fair. (1.1.12) paradox. SAid by the 3 witches.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know. (1.7.82)

Admirres Lady Macbeth currange (appearance vs reality) How she is a flower but a serpent underneath

A little water clears us of this deed. (2.2.70)

Also later in the play all she wants to do is wash her hands while shes sleepwalking. Saying that wasing hands gets rid of the crime is falso bc she is reliving the murder in her sleep in guilt.

Besides, this DuncanHath borne his faculties so meek, hath beenSo clear in his great office, that his virtuesWill plead like angels trumpet-tongued... I have no spurTo prick the sides of my intent, but onlyVaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself,And falls on the other. (1.7.16-29)

Another reason saying not to kill duncan because he was a good king and people will be upset if he dies. Doesn't really have a reason to kill him except for wanting to be king

Come, you spiritsThat tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here,And fill me from the crown to the toe top fullOf direst cruelty... (1.5.39-42)

Asking the spirits to take away all womanly features so she has the strength to kill duncan herself.

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? (1.3.37-40)

Banquo said this but he is describing the witches.

Two truths are told,As happy prologues to the swelling actOf the imperial theme. (1.3.126-128)

Beginning of aside. talks about how he is happy that the prophecies are coming true because he thinks that since all the other prophecies were true he will be King

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 passageTill 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. (1.2.16-23)

Captain reporting on battle this is significant because it shows his potential for violence and that he is a well respected soldier

Where we are,There's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood,The nearer bloody. (2.3.136-137)

Dodanbain says this he says that where they are the people around them can't be trusted the right after Duncan is killed the closer someone must be to us in friendship the never that person might be to blood

I 'gin to be aweary of the sun,And wish the estate o' the world were now undone.Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!At least we'll die with harness on our back. (5.5.48-51)

Feeling his end is near and says that he is showing a little bit of his character in the first place and he is going to die with his armor on his back like he was such a good fighter when he wasn't a killer.

and you all know SecurityIs mortals' chiefest enemy. (3.5.32-33)

Hecate saying this and it reveals that the witches are planning to take Macbeth down for being overconfident

Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had done 't. (2.2.13-14)

If he didn't look like her dad when he was sleeping should've killed him herself

The Thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now? (5.1.40)

Interesting that it is bothering her that lady macduff was killed by macbeth.

Out, damned spot! out, I say! (5.1.31)

Lady Macbeth in the sleepwalking scene. significant because it shows she has a bunch of hidden guilt

What's done cannot be undone. (5.1.59-60)

Lady Macbeth saying this because it's referring back to the night of the killing of duncan where she says what is done is done. Feels gilt

The sleeping and the dead are but as picturers;'T is the eye of childhoodThat fears a painted devil. (2.2.58)

Lady Macbeth says this to Macbeth because he forgot to leave the daggers and go back to his bedroom and put back the daggers. Then she does it herself bc Macbth is too afraid.

You lack the season of all natures, sleep. (3.4.141)

Lady Macbeth telling Macbeth that he just needs sleep.

Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt beWhat thou art promised. Yet I do fear thy nature;It is too full o' the milk of human kindnessTo catch the nearest way; thou wouldst be great,Art not without ambition; but withoutThe illness should attend it; what thou wouldst highly,That thou wouldst holily; wouldst not play false,And yet wouldst wrongly win. (1.5.14-21)

Lady Macbeth worrying about Macbeth also shows what she thinks of h im(he is ambitious but not ruthless enough to have what it takes to be king)

Screw your courage to the sticking-place,And we'll not fail. (1.7.60-61)

Lady macbeth after she has convinced Macbeth to kill duncan

Your face, my thane, is as a book where menMay read strange matters. To beguile the time,Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,But be the serpent under't. (1.5.61-65)

Lady macbeth telling Macbeth to act sweet and innocent (fair is foul and foul is fair) to appear fear but actually kill and be foul.

I am Thane of Cawdor:If good, why do I yield to that suggestionWhose horrid image doth unfix my hairAnd make my seated heart knock at my ribs,Against the use of nature? Present fearsAre less than horrible imaginings;My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,Shakes so my single state of man that functionIs smothered in surmise, nothing isBut what is not. (1.3.132-141)

Macbeth deciding if the prophecies are either good or bad.(natural vs unnatural) Unnatural thoughts are him killing duncan. Significant that this early in the play that he has had a thought of killing Duncan without the help of his wife.

Methought I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more!Macbeth does murder sleep!" (2.2.38-39)

Macbeth has murdered his own sleep

To be thus is nothing;But to be safely thus. (3.1.49-50)

Macbeth is alone on stage and its, saying that he is not safe,there is nothing. Like he can be king, but he's not safe and the potions is secure, yjen it's worth nothing. He is threatened by Banquo bc Bamquo might be as good of a leader as macbeth and Banquo's descendants will rule.

I have lived long enough: my way of lifeIs fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf;And that which should accompany old age,As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,I must not look to have; but, in their stead,Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath,Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. (5.3.22-27)

Macbeth recognizing he is at the end of his life and he wont have the reward of getting old like not having love or friends because he started out being admired and then became feared then became hated and now his soldiers don't even fight for him. These are his earthly consequences.

o-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more; it is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing. (5.5.18-27)

Macbeth saying life is completely meaningless because this was right after he finds out that Lady Macbth had died and he didn't have time to grieve her.

Better be with the dead,Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,Than on the torture of the mind to lieIn restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave;After life's fitful fever he sleeps well:Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison,Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing,Can touch him further. (3.2.19-26)

Macbeth saying that he envies Duncan. HE isrestless because he has to worry about getting killed and ruling but duncan is lucky because he doesn't have to worry anymore.

I bear a charmed life, which must not yieldTo one of women born. (5.8.12-13)

Macbeth says this being overly confident because he knows this can't happen and he still hasn't figured out the double meaning.

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere wellIt were done quickly: if the assassinationCould trammel up the consequence, and catchWith his surcease success; that but this blowMight be the be-all and the end-all here,But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,We'd jump the life to come. But in these casesWe still have judgement here; that we but teachBloody instructions which, being taught, return,To plague the inventor; this even-handed justiceCommends the ingredients of our poisoned chaliceTo our own lips. (1.7.1-12)

Macbeth's first soliloquy. uses the royal "we" even before he becomes king. This is significant because he isn't worried about giving up his salvation but he is worried about earthly punishments and consequences (humanistic)

Let's make us medicines of our great revenge,To cure this deadly grief. (4.3.216-217)

Macduff Upset because the best medicine for grief is revenge and that is going to kill Macbth in Scotland.

Double, double toil and trouble;Fire burn and cauldron bubble. (4.1.10)

Potion matters because it makes Macbeth overconfident

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? (5.1.34-35)

Refering to the murder if duncan.

What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom? (4.1.116)

SIgnificant because Macbeth sees the line (Banquo's line)the witches show him the line and it keeps going meaning there is no end to the line.

What! can the devil speak true? (1.3.106)

Said by Banquo after Macbrth is named Thane of Cawdor bc the prophecy is coming true

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,The instruments of darkness tell us truths,Win us with honest trifles, to betray 'sIn deepest consequence. (1.3.122-125)

Said by Banquo aqmd he is warning that the witches might not be good and that they might be evil

Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scornThe power of man, for none of woman bornShall harm Macbeth. (4.1.78-80)

Talking about one of the apparitions that the witches tell Macbeth. Significance is that Macbeth doesn't understand that this has a double meaning.

That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold,What hath quenched them hath given me fire. (2.2.1)

The wine that made the guards drunk makes her feel curanges

By the pricking of my thumbs,Something wicked this way comes. (4.1.44-45)

The witches see Macbeth as wicked and they knew that he was coming so they are going to make him overconfident.

Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this bloodClean from my hand? No, this my hand will ratherThe multitudinous seas incarnadine,Making the green one red. (2.2.63-66)

This is hyperbole after he has murdered duncan and he is feeling really upset. Lady Macbeth tells him to wash his hands and Macbeth exaggerates how much blood is on his hands.

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. (4.2.3-4)

When Malcome says that he is not so sure about him because wasn't lucifer the brightest angel in heaven but he ended up stabbing God in the back and cause war.

This castle hath a pleasant seat; the airNimbly and sweetly recommends itselfUnto our gentle senses. (1.6.1-3)

dramatic irony because the castle is fair yet underneath that the castle is foul because the Mcbrths are planning on killing them.

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.Art thou not, fatal vision, sensibleTo feeling as to sight? or art thou butA dagger of the mind, a false creation,Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? (2.1.33)

hallucination of dagger how troubled he is before killing duncan.

Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night,Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day,And with thy bloody and invisible hand,Cancel and tear to pieces that great bondWhich keeps me pale! (3.2.45-50)

important because he is planning on killing banquo and he didn't tell her. SHows that they are relationship has deteriorated and that he is acting on his own now. Progression of evil.

His flight was madness: when our actions do not,Our fears do make us traitors. (4.2.3-4)

lady macduff thinks her husbands a traitor because he ran away to england to talk to malcolm because he is the rightful king of scotland. But she doesn't know that and thinks he ran away out of fear and considers him a traitor to the family.

Fair is foul, and foul is fair. (1.1.12)

paradox. Said by the 3 witches. Significance is that something or someone might look fair on the outside but foul in the inside and visa versa.

A falcon, towering in her pride of place,Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. (2.4.12-13)

part of the elithabethan order. owl is Macbeth falcon is Duncan. An event that happends in the wake of the murder of Duncan. Its unatural, and disturptsthe gret chain of life like the murder of duncan by macbeth.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen. (1.3.36)

said by Macbeth and it's the 1stthing said by macbeth. Day is fair bc they won the battle and its foul weather. This statement echoes what the witches say.