Summary Macbeth Key Quotes + How Macbeth Could Be a Gothic Play
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English
Institution
GCSE
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Macbeth
Vital analysis that will blow your examiner away, showing how Macbeth could be read as a Gothic play! Key quotes from the play itself that will cover nearly every exam question that could be asked!
Macbeth
Animal Imagery
‘Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent ‘nder it.’ – Lady Macbeth [1:5]
‘We have scorched the snake, but not killed it.’ – Macbeth [3:2]
‘O’ so full of scorpions is my mind, dearest wife.’ – Macbeth [3:2]
Blood Imagery
‘Out, damn spot: out, I say!’ – Lady Macbeth [5:1]
‘All the perfumes of Arabia could not sweeten this little hand.’ – Lady Macbeth [5:1]
‘Turn multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.’ – Macbeth [2:2]
‘I am in blood, stepped in so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious
as to go o’er.’ – Macbeth [3:4]
‘My hands are of your colour.’ – Lady Macbeth [2:2]
Religious Imagery
‘I had most need of blessing, and “amen” stuck in my throat.’ - Macbeth
‘Banquo, thy soul flight, if it finds heaven, must find it out tonight.’ – Macbeth [3:1]
‘New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrow strike Heaven on the face.’ -
‘Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires.’ – Macbeth [1:4]
‘Of horrid Hell can come a devil more damned in evils to top Macbeth.’ – Macduff [4:3]
Water Imagery
‘All of the perfumes of Arabia could not sweeten this little hand.’ [5:1]
‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?’ – Macbeth [2:2]
‘A little water clears us of this deed.’ – Lady Macbeth [2:2]
Gender Imagery
‘Unsex me here’ – Lady Macbeth [1:5]
‘Come to my woman’s breasts, and take my milk for gall, you murth’ring ministers.’ –
Lady Macbeth [1:5]
Death of Scotland Imagery
‘Bleed, bleed poor country.’ – Macduff [4:3]
‘New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrow strike Heaven on the face.’ [4:2]
‘With an untitled tyrant, bloody sceptred.’ - Macduff [4:3]
‘Be called our mother, but our grave.’ – Ross [4:3]
‘To be thus is nothing; but to be safely thus – our fears in Banquo stick deep.’ – Macbeth
[3:1]
Supernatural Imagery:
‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair.’ – Witches [1:1]
‘So foul and fair a day I have not seen.’ – Macbeth [1:3]
‘Something wicked this way comes.’ – Witches
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