Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Macbeth
(Key Quotes)
- 'Thunder and lightning'
- (Dark atmosphere,
sets tone)
- 'You shall put this nights great business into
my dispatch' - Lady Macbeth (Command,
power in relationship, context, unusual for
woman to have say)
- 'Plucked my nipple from from his boneless
gums' - Lady Macbeth (Harsh, uncaring,
un-motherly, hard-hearted)
- 'Come, thick night' - Lady
Macbeth (Evil, welcomes
darkness, contrast to later on)
- 'Double, double toil
and trouble' - Three
Witches
(Supernatural, potion)
- 'When the hurly-burly's done
when the battle's lost and
won' - Three Witches (Rhyme,
unnatural, evil spell)
- 'Great Glamis, worthy Cawdor' - Lady
Macbeth (Manipulating, respected)
- 'Fair is foul and foul is fair' - Three Witches (Macbeth is
not as good as he seems, everything is not as it seems,
theme of play)
- 'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash
this blood' - Macbeth (Guilt,
metaphor, blood always on hands)
- 'Sleep no more: Macbeth does murder
sleep' - Macbeth (Disturbed sleep,
murdered Duncan)
- 'Too full o' th' milk of human
kindness' - Lady Macbeth (Macbeth is
too soft, not a man)
- 'Light by her continually' - Gentlewoman
(Scared of dark, not as strong as she
thought, contrast to earlier)
- 'Dashed the brains out' - Lady Macbeth
(Violent, murdering, emotionless)
- 'When you durst do it, then you are a
man' - Lady Macbeth (Manipulative,
Macbeth is not a man)
- 'All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten
this little hand' - Lady Macbeth (Guilt, imitating
Macbeth from earlier, can't change what
they've done)
- 'Unsex me here' - Lady Macbeth (Wants to
rid of her womanly qualities, don't want
to be caring, gentle etc)
- 'Take my milk for gall' -
Lady Macbeth (Wants to
be evil, poison)
- 'Are you a man?' - Lady
Macbeth (Manipulating)
- 'Look like th' innocent
flower but be the surpant
under't' - Lady Macbeth
(Two-faced, evil, good face)
- ''Amen' stuck in my throat' -
Macbeth (Religion, context,
going to hell, choked by guilt)
- 'Come you spirits' -
Lady Macbeth (Evil,
supernatural, dark)
- 'Fill me to the crown to the toe,
full-top of direst cruelty' - Lady
Macbeth (Evil thoughts, make
her cruel, able to do evil things)
- 'Noble Macbeth'
- (Respected)