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Macbeth Quotes
- UNDER THE WITCHES' INFLUENCE
Anmerkungen:
- "Till he inseam'd him from the nave
to th' chaps, And fix'd his head upon
our battlements"
- "his brandish'd steel which smoked
with bloody execution, like valour's
minion"
- "as cannons overcharg'd with double
cracks, so they doubly redoubled strokes
upon the foe"
- "Disdaining Fortune"
- "So foul and fair a
day I have not
seen"
- DISCONNECT
BETWEEN HIS
EXTERIOR
AND
INTERIOR
- "why do you dress me
in borrowed robes?
- "New honours come upon him,
like our strange garments,
cleave not to their mould but
with the aid of use"
- "look like th' innocent
flower but be the
serpent under't"
Anmerkungen:
- Links to the old Thane of Cawdor. Duncan has no idea what people are thinking (There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face) and therefore, Duncan has to trust blindly which is his strength. Macbeth knowingly betrays his vulnerability (a new born babe) and this is his unforgivable sin.
- "False heart must hide what
the false heart doth know."
- "Where we are,
there's daggers in
men's smiles"
- VILLAINOUS NATURE
- "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"
- "that is a step on which
I must fall down or else
o'er-leap"
- "Stars, hide your fires; let not
light see my black and deep
desires"
- "If we should fail?"
- "A friend"
- "If you shall cleave to my
consent...it shall make
honour for you"
- "Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men"
Anmerkungen:
- Using Lady Macbeth's tactics once he is King, he is now bigger than her, does he no longer need her know he has granted himself his ambition literally with his own hands?
- "Well then, now have you
consider'd of my speeches?"
- "Both of you know
Banquo was your
enemy"
- CONSCIENCE
- "too full o' th' milk
of compassion to
catch the nearest
way"
Anmerkungen:
- Macbeth wrestles with his conscience to be able to kill such a gracious king
- "We will proceed no further
in this business. He hath
honour'd me of late"
- "wouldst not play false, and
yet wouldst wrongly win"
- "the eye wink at the hand;
yet let that be which the eye
fears, when it is done, to see"
- "I think not of them"
Anmerkungen:
- Macbeth's conscience switches off in the build up to killing the king, he loses his morality
- "I am settled"
- "on thy blade and
dudgeon gouts of
blood"
- "one did laugh in's
sleep, and one
cried "Murder!""
Anmerkungen:
- Macbeth regrets his decision but is it out of fear of being caught or his morality switching back on?
- "I'll go no more: I am afraid
to think what I have done;
Look on't again I dare not."
- "Wake Duncan with
thy knocking! I would
thou couldst!"
- LACK OF HEIRS
AND THEREFORE
PROTECTION
- "Your children shall be kings"
- "Do you not hope your
children shall be kings"
- "Goes Fleance with you?"
- "Bring forth
men-children
only"
- "fruitless crown"
- "a barren
sceptre in my
gripe"
- "To be thus is nothing,
but to be safely thus."
- "For them the gracious
Duncan have I
murder'd"