Macbeth quotes, Key quotes from Macbeth, Macbeth Quotes Quotation: "So foul and fair a day I have not seen." - Answer ✔️✔️-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 w itches - 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 de ath/ And with his former title greet Macbeth." - Answer ✔️✔️-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 sta rt and seem to fear/ Things that do sound so fair?" - Answer ✔️✔️-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?" - Answer ✔️✔️-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 wa nts 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 ro bes?" - Answer ✔️✔️-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?" - Answer ✔️✔️-Location: page 12 line 133 - Speaker: Macbeth - Spok en 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." - Answer ✔️✔️-Location: pag e 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 trait or as well. Quotation: "We will establish our estate upon/ Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter/ The Prince of Cumberland." - Answer ✔️✔️-Location: page 15 - Speaker: King Duncan - Spoken To: All of the men at the feast (Banquo and Macbeth) - Situat ion: 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 kill ing 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." - Answer ✔️✔️-
Location: page 16 - Speaker: Lady M acbeth - 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." - Answer ✔️✔️-Location: page 17 - Speaker: Lady Macbeth - Spoken To: Hersel f - 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. Quotation: "To beguile the time,/ Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,/ Your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower,/ But be the serpent under't." - Answer ✔️✔️-Location: page 18 - Speaker: Lady Macbeth - Spoken To: Macbeth - Situation: She is telling Macbeth how he should act ar ound the king (innocent but be the serpent underneath). - Significance: Macbeth is not sure on if he should still kill the king but Lady Macbeth is ready to kill him and has the plan all ready. Quotation: "I have no spur/ To prick the sides of my intent, b ut only/ Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself/ And falls on th' other --" - Answer ✔️✔️-Location: page 21 - Speaker: Macbeth - Spoken To: Himself - Situation: Macbeth is trying to talk himself out of killing the king. He is saying he should serve and b e loyal to him. - Significance: Macbeth talks about the afterlife and realizes he should not kill the king. Duncan is Saintly and this shows how Macbeth's good character is coming back out against evil. Quotation: "I have given suck, and know/ How tender ' tis to love the babe that milks me:/ I would, while it was smiling in my face,/ Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums/ And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you/ Have done to this." - Answer ✔️✔️-Location: page 22 - Speaker: Lady Macbeth - Spoken To: Macbeth - Situation: Lady Macbeth is angry with Macbeth for not wanting to kill the king. She is calling herself more ruthless. - Significance: Lady Macbeth shows how ruthless she is by saying she'd kill her own child. Quotation: "I am settled, a nd bend up/ Each corporal agent to this terrible feat./ Away, and mock the time with fairest show;/ False face must hide what the false heart doth know." - Answer ✔️✔️-
Location: 23 - Speaker: Mac. - Spoken To: Lady - Situation: Macbeth decided to go throug h with the plan by blaming it on the guards. - Significance: Macbeth is showing his flaw as a tragic hero. Quotation: "Merciful powers,/ Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature/ Gives way to in repose." - Answer ✔️✔️-Location: page 24 line 8 - Speak er: Banquo - Spoken To: his son Fleance - Situation: He is teaching his son about the night and castle because the witches predicted he will be king. - Significance: Banquo is starting to believe in the witches. Quotation: "Is this a dagger which I see bef ore me,/ The handle toward my hand?" - Answer ✔️✔️-Location: 25 - Speaker: Macbeth - Spoken To: to himself - Situation: He is thinking about how he will kill Duncan and is hallucinating about already doing the killing. - Significance: This is his peptalk t o kill duncan and shows how he is actually going to kill him. Quotation: "I go, and it is done. The bell invites me./ Hear it no, Duncan, for it is a knell/ That summons thee to heaven, or to hell." - Answer ✔️✔️-Location: 26 - Speaker: Macbeth - Spoken To: Himself - Situation: Macbeth is now summoned to kill Duncan after hallucinating about the actual kill. - Significance: The bell signals that it is killing time and he is going through with the kill. Quotation: "I laid their daggers ready -/ He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled/ My father as he slept, I had done't." - Answer ✔️✔️-Location: page 27 - Speaker: Lady Macbeth - Spoken To: herself - Situation: She is anxious about the killing. - Significance: She is not as ruthless as she thought and woul dn't even kill her own father or child now. She doesn't want to kill him anymore. Quotation: "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood/ Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather/ The multitudinous seas incarnadine,/ Making the green one red." - Answer ✔️✔️-
Location: page 29 - Speaker: Macbeth - Spoken To: Lady Macbeth - Situation: He just killed the king and is washing his hands. - Significance: He is saying how he could never wash all of the dirty work he has done. Quotation: "A little water c lears us of this deed." - Answer ✔️✔️-Location: page 30 - Speaker: Lady Macbeth - Spoken To: Macbeth - Situation: she came to wash her hands after the death - Significance: She doesn't care about the king being dead and shows how she is not cowardly. Quota tion: "Confusion now hath made his masterpiece:/ Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope/ The lord's anointed temple and stole thence/ The life o' th' building!" - Answer ✔️✔️-
Location: 33 - Speaker: Macduff - Spoken To: Macbeth and Lennox - Situation: The y have
Location: page 16 - Speaker: Lady M acbeth - 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." - Answer ✔️✔️-Location: page 17 - Speaker: Lady Macbeth - Spoken To: Hersel f - 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. Quotation: "To beguile the time,/ Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,/ Your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower,/ But be the serpent under't." - Answer ✔️✔️-Location: page 18 - Speaker: Lady Macbeth - Spoken To: Macbeth - Situation: She is telling Macbeth how he should act ar ound the king (innocent but be the serpent underneath). - Significance: Macbeth is not sure on if he should still kill the king but Lady Macbeth is ready to kill him and has the plan all ready. Quotation: "I have no spur/ To prick the sides of my intent, b ut only/ Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself/ And falls on th' other --" - Answer ✔️✔️-Location: page 21 - Speaker: Macbeth - Spoken To: Himself - Situation: Macbeth is trying to talk himself out of killing the king. He is saying he should serve and b e loyal to him. - Significance: Macbeth talks about the afterlife and realizes he should not kill the king. Duncan is Saintly and this shows how Macbeth's good character is coming back out against evil. Quotation: "I have given suck, and know/ How tender ' tis to love the babe that milks me:/ I would, while it was smiling in my face,/ Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums/ And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you/ Have done to this." - Answer ✔️✔️-Location: page 22 - Speaker: Lady Macbeth - Spoken To: Macbeth - Situation: Lady Macbeth is angry with Macbeth for not wanting to kill the king. She is calling herself more ruthless. - Significance: Lady Macbeth shows how ruthless she is by saying she'd kill her own child. Quotation: "I am settled, a nd bend up/ Each corporal agent to this terrible feat./ Away, and mock the time with fairest show;/ False face must hide what the false heart doth know." - Answer ✔️✔️-
Location: 23 - Speaker: Mac. - Spoken To: Lady - Situation: Macbeth decided to go throug h with the plan by blaming it on the guards. - Significance: Macbeth is showing his flaw as a tragic hero. Quotation: "Merciful powers,/ Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature/ Gives way to in repose." - Answer ✔️✔️-Location: page 24 line 8 - Speak er: Banquo - Spoken To: his son Fleance - Situation: He is teaching his son about the night and castle because the witches predicted he will be king. - Significance: Banquo is starting to believe in the witches. Quotation: "Is this a dagger which I see bef ore me,/ The handle toward my hand?" - Answer ✔️✔️-Location: 25 - Speaker: Macbeth - Spoken To: to himself - Situation: He is thinking about how he will kill Duncan and is hallucinating about already doing the killing. - Significance: This is his peptalk t o kill duncan and shows how he is actually going to kill him. Quotation: "I go, and it is done. The bell invites me./ Hear it no, Duncan, for it is a knell/ That summons thee to heaven, or to hell." - Answer ✔️✔️-Location: 26 - Speaker: Macbeth - Spoken To: Himself - Situation: Macbeth is now summoned to kill Duncan after hallucinating about the actual kill. - Significance: The bell signals that it is killing time and he is going through with the kill. Quotation: "I laid their daggers ready -/ He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled/ My father as he slept, I had done't." - Answer ✔️✔️-Location: page 27 - Speaker: Lady Macbeth - Spoken To: herself - Situation: She is anxious about the killing. - Significance: She is not as ruthless as she thought and woul dn't even kill her own father or child now. She doesn't want to kill him anymore. Quotation: "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood/ Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather/ The multitudinous seas incarnadine,/ Making the green one red." - Answer ✔️✔️-
Location: page 29 - Speaker: Macbeth - Spoken To: Lady Macbeth - Situation: He just killed the king and is washing his hands. - Significance: He is saying how he could never wash all of the dirty work he has done. Quotation: "A little water c lears us of this deed." - Answer ✔️✔️-Location: page 30 - Speaker: Lady Macbeth - Spoken To: Macbeth - Situation: she came to wash her hands after the death - Significance: She doesn't care about the king being dead and shows how she is not cowardly. Quota tion: "Confusion now hath made his masterpiece:/ Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope/ The lord's anointed temple and stole thence/ The life o' th' building!" - Answer ✔️✔️-
Location: 33 - Speaker: Macduff - Spoken To: Macbeth and Lennox - Situation: The y have
