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I:i:12
Quote and Speaker
“Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair”
--Witches
I:iii:39
“So foul and fair a day I have not
seen.”
I:iii:134-36
“But ‘tis strange. And
oftentimes to win us to our harm
the instruments of darkness tell
us truths.”
“Yet I do fear thy nature; It is
too full of the milk of human
kindness…”
“Come, you spirits that tend on
mortal thoughts, unsex me
here…”
“Look the innocent flower, but be
the serpent under’t
“If it were done when ‘tis done,
then ‘twere well it were done
quickly.”
I:v:16-17
I: v: 47-48
I:v.76-78
I:vii:1-2
Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!
Interpretation/Analysis
What seems right is wrong, and
what seems wrong is right…an
example of appearance vs. reality
motif.
Quote Integration
The beginning of an appearance vs. reality
motif can be traced back to our first
glimpse of the witches when they
chanted, “Fair is foul and foul is fair.”