Macbeth quotes, Key quotes from Macbeth Latest 2023 Graded A+

Macbeth quotes, Key quotes from Macbeth Latest 2023 Graded A+ Quotation: "So foul and fair a day I have not seen." - Location: I.3.38 (p.8) - Speaker: Macbeth - Spoken To: Banquo - Situation: These are Macbeth's first words - he and Banquo are returning from battle - this is right before Banquo sees the witches - Significance: Paradox - Macbeth echoes the witches' words - the day is foul because the weather is ugly; it is fair because they won the battle Quotation: "No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive/ Our bosom interest. Go pronounce his present death/ And with his former title greet Macbeth." - Location: Page 6 lines 64 and 65 - Speaker: King Duncan - Spoken To: Ross - Situation: Ross told king Duncan that Scotland had won the war. Thane of Cawdor is now another traitor and Ross need to kill him. The King wants to reward Macbeth with the name of Thane of Cawdor. - Significance: Macbeth gets a new title which makes him get much more power and position. This is his second trait of a tragic hero as well. Quotation: "Good sir, why do you start and seem to fear/ Things that do sound so fair?" - Location: page 9 line 51 - Speaker: Banquo - Spoken To: To the three witches - Situation: The witches all hail Macbeth and Banquo - Significance: Banquo is upset that they aren't speaking to him. Macbeth was afraid because they were predicting things for Macbeth but not him. These things they were predicting were already almost all true. They predicted for Banquo that his sons would be kings. Quotation: "Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more:/ By Sinel's death I know I am Thane of Glamis,/ But how of Cawdor?" - Location: page 9 lines 70 and 71 - Speaker: Macbeth - Spoken To: Witches - Situation: They are giving prophecies that don't make sense to Macbeth and Banquo. Macbeth wants to know how he will be what they say. - Significance: Two out of three of those titles were true and Macbeth wants to know more. This shows that the witches are most likely true. Quotation: The Thane of Cawdor lives. Why do you dress me/ In borrowed robes?" - Location: page 11 line 108 - Speaker: Macbeth - Spoken To: Ross - Situation: Ross and Angus deliver the news that Macbeth is the Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth thought the Thane of Cawdor was still alive. - Significance: Macbeth realizes that the witches are telling the truth to him. Quotation: This supernatural soliciting/ Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill,/ Why hath it given me earnest of success,/ Commencing in a truth?" - Location: page 12 line 133 - Speaker: Macbeth - Spoken To: Banquo - Situation: He is trying to figure out if the prophecy is good or bad. He doesn't find it bad because he is now Thane of Cawdor. But he is still having bad thoughts on how he will become king (killing Duncan). - Significance: Macbeth says he will let fate take its course and not take action in the prophecies. He is not deciding his fate. Quotation: "There's no art/ To find the mind's construction in the face./ He was a gentleman on whom I built/ An absolute trust." - Location: page 14 line 12 - Speaker: King Duncan - Spoken To: Malcom - Situation: King Duncan explained his trust that he put in the old Thane of Cawdor. - Significance: He is now going to put his trust in Macbeth since he knows he can trust him since he killed a traitor as well. Quotation: "We will establish our estate upon/ Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter/ The Prince of Cumberland." - Location: page 15 - Speaker: King Duncan - Spoken To: All of the men at the feast (Banquo and Macbeth) - Situation: He gives his son Malcolm the title of Prince of Cumberland and is now heir to the throne. - Significance: Macbeth realizes that now he has another person in his way before he becomes king. He calls upon the supernatural about his dark thoughts on killing both Duncan and Malcolm. Quotation: "Glamis thou art, and Cawdor and shalt be/ What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature./ It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness/ To catch the nearest way." - Location: page 16 - Speaker: Lady Macbeth - Spoken To: Herself - Situation: She is reading a letter to Macbeth and sees that he could become king. She is happy that she could become king. She is afraid though that he is too weak to do all of these things. - Significance: She is unsure of how Macbeth will play out his future. Quotation: "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." - Location: page 17 - Speaker: Lady Macbeth - Spoken To: Herself - Situation: She is trying to get get herself to kill the king. She also asked the spirits to make her stronger and more cruel. - Significance: She is deciding that if Macbeth can't kill the king then she will.