Macbeth
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English 11 Justin Wang
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Macbeth quotations collection
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”
This quotation was been said at the very beginning of the play by the witches, which were known as weird sisters. Shakespeare indicated the standard of value in the imagination world that he created. Its also a dramatic irony which made us to think about it as the play continued on. Furthermore, it is also foreshadowing that not all the goodness will be accepted in that specific period of time, by saying that we have gain an insight that some evil thinking ideas might be work more effective.
“Sleep shall neither night nor day. Hang upon his pent-house lid.”
From the quotation above we knew that once you put your force in making your ambitions came true, you have to be passionate whenever the time is and no matter what difficult situations you are facing.
“For brave Macbeth–well he deserves that name– Disdaining fortune, with his brandishd steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valours minion carved out his passage Till he faced the slave; Which neer shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,Till he unseamd him from the nave to the chaps, And fixd his head upon our battlements.”
While the witches indicated what Macbeth would act like, they were more likely already known what is he going to do the next.
“They Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe
Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,
Or memorize another Golgotha,
I cannot tell.”
5. ” If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not,
Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear
Your favours nor your hate.
When Macbeth met the weird sisters again, he was kind of lost his mind and conscious what exactly he was doing for that time. Explain
“The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements. Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood,
Stop up thaccess and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature”
Lady Macbeth speaks these words in Act I, scene v, lines 36Ð-52, as she awaits the arrival of King Duncan at her castle. We have previously seen Macbeths uncertainty about whether he should take the crown by killing Duncan. In this speech, there is no such confusion, as Lady Macbeth is clearly willing to do whatever is necessary to seize the throne.
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?
Her strength of purpose is contrasted with her husbands tendency to waver. This speech shows the audience that Lady Macbeth is the real steel behind Macbeth and that her ambition will be strong enough to drive her husband forward. At the same time, the language of this speech touches on the theme of masculinityЖ “unsex me here / . . . / . . . Come to my womans breasts, / And take my milk for gall,” Lady Macbeth says as she prepares herself to commit murder. 8.
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray s
In deepest consequence
The language suggests that her womanhood, represented by breasts and milk, usually symbols of nurture, impedes her from performing acts of violence and cruelty, which she associates with manliness. Later, this sense of the relationship between masculinity and violence will be deepened when Macbeth is unwilling to go through with the murders and his wife tells him, in effect, that he needs to “be a man” and get on with it.
“I am Thane of Cawdor:
If good, why do I yield to that suggestion
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
Against the use of nature? Present fears
What Macbeth had indicated from the above-mentioned quotation was that his ambition was growing dramatically as the time went by.
Are less than horrible imaginings;
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that function
Is smothered in surmise, nothing is
But what is not.”
In this soliloquy, which is found in Act I, scene vii, lines 1Ð-28, Macbeth debates whether he should kill Duncan. When he lists Duncans noble qualities (he “[h]ath borne his faculties so meek”) and the loyalty that he feels toward his king (“I am his kinsman and his subject”), we are reminded of just how grave an outrage it is for the couple to slaughter their ruler while he is a guest in their house.
“Nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving it; he died
As one that had been studied in his death
To throw away the dearest thing he owed,