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Summary Macbeth Key Quotes
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Key Macbeth Quotes colour coded by theme and character. For AQA GCSE English Literature.
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Macbeth Key Quotes:Character:
Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
Banquo
Witches
Malcolm
Macduff
Gender + masculinity:
“Take my milk for gall” 1.5
“Dash’d the brains out” 1.7
“Come you spirits, unsex me here” 1.5
“Will this little hand ne’er be clean” 5.1
“You would be so much more the man” 1.7
“Fruitless crown” 3.1
“Barren sceptre” 3.1
“Unseamed him from the nave to th’chops” - 1.2
“If we should fail?” 1.7
About witches: “you should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you
are so” 1.3
“Drain him dry as hay” 1.3
All my pretty ones? … What, all my pretty chickens and their dam At one fell swoop?
Ambition:
“Vaulting ambition” 1.7
“Stay, imperfect speakers, tell me more” 1.3
“I am settled and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat” 2.1
“For mine own good, all causes shall give way”
“Give to th’edge of the sword His wife, his babes and all unfortunate souls”
“I do fear thy nature, it is too full o’ the milk of human kindness” 1.7
“When you durst do it, then you were a man” 1.7
Kingship + nobility:
“Restrain in me these cursed thoughts” 2.1
“Hush, no more”
“Myself should be the root and father of many kings”
“I fear he’d play most foully for’t”
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