This is a document of all the key quotes I used in my GCSE Macbeth essays thematically organised that enabled me to achieve a 9 at GCSE English Literature- these can also be used for AQA as well as OCR
, Masculinity (qualities associated with it) and Gender
● Description of Macbeth in the beginning (Act 1)
○ “Great Macbeth”
○ “Worthy Gentleman”
○ “Sword smoked with bloody execution”
○ “Valour’s minion”
● Lady Macbeth first thinking up the murder (Act 1)
○ “Unsex me here”
○ “Too full of the milk of human kindness”
● Lady Macbeth Challenging Macbeth over his masculinity in the actions of
the murder when he decides not to do it (Act 1)
○ “I dare do all that may become a man; who dares more is none”
○ “When you durst do it, then you were a man”
○ “Who shall bear the guilt of our great quell”
● After the murder
○ “My hands are of your colour but I shame to wear a heart so white.”
○ “Woman’s ear would murder as it fell”
● Contrasting reactions to Banquo’s ghost (Act 3)
○ “Lady Macbeth joins the Lords”
○ “What, quite unmann’d in this folly?”
● Macduff receiving the news of his family (Act 4)
○ “Dispute it like a man”
○ “I must also feel it as a man”
○ “Be this the whetstone of your sword”
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