Macbeth
MACBETH QUOTES
“ Fair is foul, and foul is fair” * Equivocal sentence, inversion, defies logic * Is a set up to show Macbeths fate is sealed
“For brave Macbeth – well he deserves that name – disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel, which smoked with bloody execution, like valour’s minion carved out his passage till he faced the slave, which never shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, till he unseamed him from the nave to the chaps and fixed his head upon our battlements” * Good portrait of Macbeth, incredibly brave,
“Go pronounce his present death and with his former greet Macbeth… What he hath lost the noble Macbeth hath won” * Example of tragic/dramatic Irony * Prelude to his own death, sealed his own death * It is fitting that Macbeth will have the title of a traitor * Bit of foreshadowing
“Though his bark cannot be lost, yet it shall be tempest tossed” * Show that the witches can only create the environment, it has to be an act of freewill
“So foul and fair a day I have not seen” * Prefigures his path, echoes the witches chant in a disturbing/ominous way
“So withered and wild in their attire, that look not like the inhabitants of the earth” * Banquo clearer on his perception of the witches * “You should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so
“Are ye fantastical, or that indeed which outwardly ye show ?” * Appearance vs Reality
“Why do you start and seem to fear things that do sound so fair?2 * Macbeth is visibly shaken, although there is no stage direction to make this clear
“If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow, “ – Imagery of fertility
“Stay you imperfect speakers. Tell me more” * Shows interest in that that should be banished * Doesn’t even seem to stop to consider
“Why do you dress me in borrowed robes” * Repeated imagery of clothing
“Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of
“ Fair is foul, and foul is fair” * Equivocal sentence, inversion, defies logic * Is a set up to show Macbeths fate is sealed
“For brave Macbeth – well he deserves that name – disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel, which smoked with bloody execution, like valour’s minion carved out his passage till he faced the slave, which never shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, till he unseamed him from the nave to the chaps and fixed his head upon our battlements” * Good portrait of Macbeth, incredibly brave,
“Go pronounce his present death and with his former greet Macbeth… What he hath lost the noble Macbeth hath won” * Example of tragic/dramatic Irony * Prelude to his own death, sealed his own death * It is fitting that Macbeth will have the title of a traitor * Bit of foreshadowing
“Though his bark cannot be lost, yet it shall be tempest tossed” * Show that the witches can only create the environment, it has to be an act of freewill
“So foul and fair a day I have not seen” * Prefigures his path, echoes the witches chant in a disturbing/ominous way
“So withered and wild in their attire, that look not like the inhabitants of the earth” * Banquo clearer on his perception of the witches * “You should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so
“Are ye fantastical, or that indeed which outwardly ye show ?” * Appearance vs Reality
“Why do you start and seem to fear things that do sound so fair?2 * Macbeth is visibly shaken, although there is no stage direction to make this clear
“If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow, “ – Imagery of fertility
“Stay you imperfect speakers. Tell me more” * Shows interest in that that should be banished * Doesn’t even seem to stop to consider
“Why do you dress me in borrowed robes” * Repeated imagery of clothing
“Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of