Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Macbeth Themes
- Paradox
- "Fair is foul, and foul is fair!" - Witches 1.1.11
- "So foul and fair a day I have not
seen." - Macbeth 1.3.38
- "Nothing is but what is
not" - Macbeth 1.3.142
- "Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my
black and deep desires!" - Macbeth 1.4.50
- The eye wink at the hand! - Yet let that be, which th
eye fears, when it is done, to see." - Macbeth 1.4.52
- "Lesser than Macbeth, and greater." "Not so happy, yet much happier."
"Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none" - Witches 1.3.66
- "What though wouldst highly, that wouldst
though holily - wouldst not play false, and yet
wouldst wrongly win" Lady Macbeth 1.5.19
- "Nought's had, all's spent.... 'Tis safer to be that
which we destroy than by destruction dwell in
doubtful joy." - Lady Macbeth 3.2.4
- "Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the
dark to cry 'Hold Hold'" Lady Macbeth 1.5.52
- "Make our faces vizards
to our hearts" - Macbeth
3.2.34
- "Come, seeling night, scarf up
the tender eye of the pitiful
day" - Macbeth 3.2.46
- Clothes
- "New honours come upon him like our strange garments - cleave not to
their mould but with the aid of use" - Banquo 1.3.145
- "Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?" - Macbeth 1.3.108
- "I have bought golden opinions
from all sorts of people, which
would be worn now in their newest
gloss" - Macbeth 1.7.32
- Deception
- "There's no art to find
the mind's
construction in the
face" - Duncan 1.4.12
- "Stars, hide your fires! Let not
light see my black and deep
desires!" - Macbeth 1.4.50
- "This castle hath a pleasant seat. The air nimbly and sweetly
recommends itself unto our gentle senses" - Duncan 1.6.1
- "Look like the innocent flower, but be the
serpent under't" - Lady Mcbeth 1.5.64
- "Where we are
there's daggers in
men's smiles" -
Donalbain 2.3.136
- "And be these juggling
fiends no more
believed that palter
with us in adouble
sense -" - Macbeth
5.8.19
- Sleep
- "(we) sleep in the affliction of these
terrible dreams that shake us
nightly." - Macbeth 3.2.17
- "Better be with the dead... than
on the torture of the mind to
lie in restless ecstasy"
- "Duncan is in his grave. After
life's fitful fever he sleeps well"
- "'Sleep no more!- Macbeth does murder
sleep!' - the innocent sleep - sleep that knits
up the ravelled sleeve of care, the death of
each day's life, sore labour's bath, balm of
hurt minds..." - Macbeth 2.2.32
- Sickness
- "Things without all remedy should be
without regard" - Lady Macbeth 3.2.12
- "If though couldst, doctor, cast the water of
my land, find her disease, and purge it to a
sound and pristine health" - Macbeth 5.3.50
- "You do unbend your noble
strength , to think so brainsickly
of things." - Lady Macbeth 2.2.42
- "These deeds must not be
thought after these ways:
so, it will make us mad." -
Lady Macbeth 2.2.30
- "The earth was feverous, and did shake." - Lennox 2.3.57
- "who wear our health but sickly in (Banquo's) life,
which in his death were perfect" - Macbeth 3.1.106
- "O, full of
scorpions is my
mind, dear wife" -
Macbeth 3.2.36
- "Canst though not minister to a mind diseased? Pluck
from the memory a rooted sorrow..."" - Macbeth 5.3.40
- Kingship
- "If though couldst, doctor cast the water of my
land, find her disease, and purge it to a sound
and pristine health" - Macbeth 5.3.50
- "(Duncan's) virtues will plead like angels" - Macbeth 1.7.18
- "(Duncan) was a most sainted king" - Macduff 4.3.109
- "The king becoming graces - as justice, verity, temp'rance,
stableness, bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,
devotion, patience, courage, fortitude-" - Malcolm 4.3.92
- Guilt
- "Good sir, why do you start" - Banquo 1.3.50
- "This is a sorry sight" - Macbeth 2.2.20
- "He's here in double trust" - Macbeth 1.7.12
- " Of all men else I have avoided thee" - Macbeth 5.6.43
- "My soul is too much charged
with the blood of thine already" -
Macbeth 5.6.44
- he cannot "wash this blood
clean from (his) hand" -
Macbeth 2.2.60
- "A little water clears us of this
deed" -Lady Macbeth 2.2.67
- "Who would of thought the old man to have so much
blood in him" - Lady Macbeth 5.1.38
- Even death cannot bring "sweat
relief" for he cannot "jump the
life to come" - 1.7.7 Macbeth
- Manhood
- "Thy undaunted metal
should compose nothing but
males" - Macbeth 1.7.74
- "I dare do all that may
become a man - who
dares do more is none." -
Macbeth 1.7.46
- "To be more than
what you were, you
would be so much
more the man." - Lady
Macbeth 1.7.50