Key quotes from Macbeth

fair is foul, and foul is fair (1.1) speaker? The three witches meaning/significance? things aren't always what they seem theme: appearance/reality And oftentimes, to win us to our harm the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence (1.3) speaker? Banquo (to Macbeth) meaning/significance? A warning/fortelling of what will happen to Macbeth. that evil tries to tempt us with half truth and it will lead us to our doom Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it (1.4) speaker? Malcom (about Cawdor) Meaning/significance? showing how a person can die with dignity/die well (by repenting), also it contrasted a good death to Macbeth's death (bad death) If chance will have me King, why Chance may crown me, Without my stir. (1.3) Speaker? Macbeth Meaning/significance? Macbeth is hoping he will not have to do anything to become king, that fate will take care of it theme: fate That is a step on which I must fall down or o'er leap Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires. (1.4) speaker? Macbeth (to himself) Meaning/significance? he is now commited to killing Duncan...it shows the growth of evil in Macbeth... showing what side he is aligning with... first step down a slipper slope Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. (1.5) speaker? Lady Macbeth (to herself) Meaning/significance? L. Macbeth is worried about her husband's wishwashiness... shows gender bending (shes crueler) theme:gender bending 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! (1.5) speaker? Lady Macbeth Meaning/significance? shows L.Macbeth siding with evil forces themes: unnatural, gender bending Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't. (I.5) speaker? Lady Macbeth (to Macbeth) meaning/significance? L.Macbeth is telling her husband to lie and act innocent themes: appearance/reality I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other - (1.7) speaker? Macbeth meaning/significane? showing Macbeth's only motivation is his ambition theme: ambition I do all that may become a man Who dares do more is none. (1.7) When you durst do it, then you were a man; (1.7) speaker(s)? Macbeth-lady macbeth meaning/significance? Lady Macbeth is convincing her to husband to "be a man"... shows macbeths hesitance/humaness theme: gender bending False face must hide what false heart doth know (1.7) speaker? macbeth meaning/significance? Macbeth shows his commitment to putting up an act of being innocent, choosing to hide things instead of confessing/repenting theme:appearance/reality Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep"—the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care. (2.2) speaker? Macbeth meaning/significance? Shows Macbeth is feeling guilty (for killing Duncan) and also jumpy themes? sleep/dreams, clothes motif Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? (2.2) speaker? Macbeth meaning/signficance? showing his guilt, how he feels he will never be clean, evil will spread as a result (dominoes effect) themes? order/disorder, guilt, great chaine of being A little water clears us of this deed, How easy is it then! (2.2) speaker? Lady Macbeth meaning/significance? saying it will be easy to shake this off/be clean/guilt-free, contrasts towards Macbeth who says the opposite themes? deception there's daggers in men's smiles. (2.3) speaker? Donlbaine (to malcom) Meaning/significance? Donlbaine saying you cannot trust anyone theme? appearance v. reality Thou hast it now—King, Cawdor, Glamis, all As the Weird Women promised, and I fear Thou played'st most foully for't. (3.1) speaker? Banquo (about Macbeth) meaning/significance? Banquo suspects that Macbeth killed Duncan for the crown themes? ambition, unnatural evil ...To be thus is nothing, But to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo Stick deep. (3.1) speaker? Macbeth meaning/significance? shows his growing ambition and paranoia, shows he is still worried about the prophecy of Banquo's decendents theme: ambition Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown And put a barren scepter in my grip, Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding. (3.1) speaker? Macbeth meaning/significance? worring that his kids will not get the crown, shows his growing ambition (he's not happy being king, but he also wants kids to be kings) theme: ambition