Macbeth
Supernatural:
“Fair is foul and foul is fair | Hover through the fog and filthy air” (augmenting earlier references to thunder, lightning and rain).
“Though his bark cannot be lost | Yet it shall be tempest tossed” Witches
“You should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so” Banquo
“If you can look into the seeds of time | and say which grain will go and which will not | Speak to me then” Banquo
“Is this a dagger which I see before me | the handle towards my hand?“
“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! Make thick my blood; stop up the access and passage to remorse……… ………… Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry ‘Hold, hold!‘ “ All of this is part of Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy in response to the news that Duncan will be paying a visit to her home (nice lady eh?) ”Never shake thy gory locks at me” Macbeth to Banquo’s ghost.
“This is the very painting of your fear” Lady Macbeth to her husband.
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble”. Witches (4.1.1)
Images of disguise and concealment (appearance vs reality):
“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t” Lady Macbeth, 1, 5
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know” Macbeth, 1,7
“There’s daggers in men’s smiles. The near in blood, the nearer bloody” Donalbain 2, 3.
Macbeth tells the murderers he hires to kill Banquo and Fleance that he is
“Masking the business from the common eye for sundry weighty reasons” 3,1
He tells Lady Macbeth that they must “make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are” 3,2
He admits “there’s not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant fee’d” 3,4
The mask comes off when he resolves “henceforth the very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my
“Fair is foul and foul is fair | Hover through the fog and filthy air” (augmenting earlier references to thunder, lightning and rain).
“Though his bark cannot be lost | Yet it shall be tempest tossed” Witches
“You should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so” Banquo
“If you can look into the seeds of time | and say which grain will go and which will not | Speak to me then” Banquo
“Is this a dagger which I see before me | the handle towards my hand?“
“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! Make thick my blood; stop up the access and passage to remorse……… ………… Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry ‘Hold, hold!‘ “ All of this is part of Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy in response to the news that Duncan will be paying a visit to her home (nice lady eh?) ”Never shake thy gory locks at me” Macbeth to Banquo’s ghost.
“This is the very painting of your fear” Lady Macbeth to her husband.
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble”. Witches (4.1.1)
Images of disguise and concealment (appearance vs reality):
“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t” Lady Macbeth, 1, 5
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know” Macbeth, 1,7
“There’s daggers in men’s smiles. The near in blood, the nearer bloody” Donalbain 2, 3.
Macbeth tells the murderers he hires to kill Banquo and Fleance that he is
“Masking the business from the common eye for sundry weighty reasons” 3,1
He tells Lady Macbeth that they must “make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are” 3,2
He admits “there’s not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant fee’d” 3,4
The mask comes off when he resolves “henceforth the very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my