REVISE 50 KEY MACBETH QUOTATIONS ACT 1 ‘brave Macbeth-Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel’ ‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’ ‘If chance will have me king why chance may crown me’ ‘Stars hide your fires let not light see my black and deep desires’ Unsex me here ‘We will proceed no further in this business’ “look like th’ innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t” only vaulting ambition ‘Macbeth doth murder sleep ‘his virtues. Will plead like angels ‘O! Yet I do repent me of my fury, That I did kill them.’ ‘Where we are there’s daggers in men’s smiles’ ‘Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hands?’ ‘What’s done is done’ to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, ACT 2 ACT 3 ‘Take my milk for gall you murdering ministers ‘Too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness’ ‘art thou but A dagger of the mind’ “I fear thou play’dst most foully for it.” ‘There’s no such thing’ Our fears in Banquo stick deep’ ‘Screw your courage to the sticking place’ ‘This is a sorry sight’ ‘I dare do all that may become a man’ “My hands are of your colour… I shame to wear a heart so white’ I am in blood stepped so far … returning were as tedious as go o’er’ ‘Both of you know Banquo was your enemy. ‘I have given suck…dash'd the brains out’ ‘A little water clears us of this deed’ Tough: Write a brief explanation of each quote to explain its relevance. They say, blood will have blood: these terrible dreams that shake us nightly We have scorched the snake, not killed it” ‘O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!’ ‘Macbeth is ripe for shaking’ I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in Out damned spot Out I say! “Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown … a barren sceptre” ‘All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand’ ‘Never shake thy gory locks at me!’ ‘Out, out brief candle’ ‘Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck’ ‘Throw physic to the dogs’ ‘All my pretty ones’ ACT 5 ACT 4 Be these juggling fiends no more believed ‘How now, you secret, black and midnight hags!’ ‘I bear a charmed life that must not yield to one of woman born’ By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. ‘Blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me’ Macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped’ TOUGHER: Use 4 colours to colour code quotes to 4 themes: 1. Ambition 2. Guilt/Fear 3. Appearance versus Reality 4. Nature and the unnatural ‘Bear-like I must fight the course’ TOUGHEST 3: Identify at least one language feature in each quote. Create a code e.g. M = metaphor, P = personification, V = verb.