Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Macbeth Quotations
- Act 1 Scene 2
- "Is this a dagger I see before me"
- Sensory Imagery
- The weapon he shall
use to kill the king
- "Come let me clutch thee:
I have thee not, yet see
thee still"
- Illusion of the mind
- "Mine eyes are made the fools o'th'other senses"
- The illusion has
blinded his other
senses
- "Moves like ghost. Thou
sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which
way they walk, for fear
Thy very stones prate of
my whereabout."
- Be silent but the fear is
still within him
- Ghostly imagery
- Has to be a silent Killer
- "But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'?
I had most need of blessing and 'Amen' Stuck
in my throat."
- Religion & Guilt
- Committed a sin and can no
longer say the holy word
"Amen"
- "Glamis hath murdered sleep',and therefore Cawdor
Shall sleep no more: Macbeth shall sleep no more"
- Going crazy with guilt
- Act 3 Scene 2
- "We have scorched the snake, not killed it"
- Religious Imagery
- Reference to Adam & Eve
- They've committed
in crime but they're
still in danger
- Injured the
snake not killed
it
- "Things without all remedy
Should be without regard;
what's done is done"
- They can not change the pass
- The outcomes are out of their control
- "Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and
sleep In the affliction of these terrible
dreams That shake us nightly"
- Dream imagery throughout the play
- Fear of the future