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"What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won"
Duncan to Ross
Fair is foul and foul is fair. What appears to be good (Macbeth becoming Thane) is actually bad

"So foul and fair a day I have not seen"

Macbeth to Banquo


Oxymoron to the Witches "Fair is foul and foul is fair" Macbeth is referring to a "fair" victory despite the "foul" weather.

"Thane of Cawdor lives; why do you dress me in borrow'd robes"

Macbeth to Banquo


Clothing imagery, Macbeth is wondering why his is given this title even though someone else already owns it.

"If chance will have me King, why, chance may crown me, without my stir"

Macbeth (aside)


His fate is already determined

"Good sir, why do you start and seem to fear things that do sound so fair"

Banquo to Macbeth


Macbeth has his ambitious desires but to achieve his destiny he would have to murder the King. Which is why is seems to fear these rather fair seeming prophecies

"The instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence"

Banquo to Macbeth


The witches are telling little truths before sucking them in. Such fair sounding prophecies may lure you to darkness. Macbeth wants them to be true but he is unnerved by that fact he has to murder the King to achieve his destiny

"Cannot be ill; cannot be good: if ill, why hath it given me earnest success, commencing in truth?"

"Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, and make my seated heart knock at my ribs, against the use of nature"

Macbeth (aside)


Macbeth is unnerved by his prophecies since even though they seem fair, he knows he is not in line to the throne and is scared of his imagination of murdering the King

"For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name) disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel, which smok'd with bloody execution, like valour's minion, carv'd out his passage

Sergeant to Duncan


Macbeth has the capacity of violence, he is a fearless, valiant solider who is loyal to the King

"Sleep shall neither night nor day. Hang upon his penthouse lid; he shall live a man forbid: Weary se'nnights, nine times nine"

First Witch to Other Witches


Sleep/Sleepnessless theme


The witches cursed a sailor with sleeplessness to drive him insane

"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face: He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust"

Duncan to Malcolm


You can't judge a book by its cover, the old Thane was a traitor but he seemed loyal and Duncan gave him his trust

"I have begun to plant thee, and will labour to make thee full of growing"

Duncan to Macbeth


Duncan now endows Macbeth the riches and responsibilities of the old Thane. Macbeth will have to grow and mature to this new unfamiliar role

"There if I grow, the harvest is your own"

Banquo to Duncan


This shows that Banquo is loyal to the King, whatever he does will be done for him and the kingdom

"New honours come upon him, like strange garments, cleave not to their mould, but with aid of use"

Banquo to Macbeth


Macbeth is mentally trying on the garments of his new honours. They feel stiff and awkward since he hasn't settled into them yet

"If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow, and which will not, speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear your favours, nor your hate"



"...have we eaten the insane root, that takes the reason prisoner?"

Banquo to the Three Witches


Banquo is not consumed by the power of the witches and unlike Macbeth he has a clear conscience and neither begs the witches favours nor fears their hate

"Stars hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be, which the eye fears, when it is done, to see"

Macbeth (aside)


Macbeth desires to murder the King and Malcolm are so unhonourable that he does not which for the stars to illuminate them. He wants it to be dark so no one can see what he will do.


Macbeth has a change of heart.

"This have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness"

Macbeth in his Letter to Lady Macbeth


Shows that the two are equal in power.

"What thou art promis'd: yet do I fear thy nature, it is too full o' the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way"



"Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly"

Lady Macbeth (aside)


She thinks Macbeth is too gentle, noble, loyal


He needs to be ruthless as well


Lady Macbeth demonstrates more "masculine" qualities

"Hie thee hither, that I may pour my spirits in thine ear, and chastise with the valour of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden crown which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem to have thee crown'd withal"

Lady Macbeth (aside)


She has to pour her evil into Macbeth for him to have the courage to get the crown that is destined for him

"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"



"Stop up the access and passage to remorse, that no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between the effect and it! Come to my woman's breats, and take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers"

Lady Macbeth (aside)


Woman are gentle and kind so she needs to become a cruel man


She wants to poison her own soul so she and remove all humaneness, goodness and gentleness in her.


Thick blood to be ruthless and numb her from feeling so she can kill without remorse


Bile in gallbladder means more guts, more nerve


(if you lack gall, you are a coward)

"Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, that my keen knife see not wound it makes. nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark to cry 'Hold, hold!'"

Lady Macbeth (aside)


She won't let the Heavens stop her. She exalts the darkness and draws strength from it to help her oversee Duncan's murder.


The thick night will hide her guilty deed

"Great Glamis! Worthy Cawdor! Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter!"

Lady Macbeth to Macbeth


Calls him by his title which mean for more wealth and power

"The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements"

Lady Macbeth (aside)


The raven is an ill omen and foreshawdows the death of Duncan.

"Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men may read strange matters. Yo beguile the time, look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, your hard, your tongue: Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't

Lady Macbeth to Macbeth


She tells Macbeth to act natural. He needs to seem and act like a goo host for the night and hide his secret desires of murdering the King. Macbeth must see like the loyal subject to the King to mask his murderous intent

"Only look up clear; to alter favour ever is to fear: leave all the rest to me"

Lady Macbeth to Macbeth


She shows more controlling male qualities, she lets Macbeth know that she is in control and has everything planned out

"This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto tout gentle senses"

Duncan to Banquo


Dramatic irony since the castle seems welcoming and safe but he will die tonight


(Fair is foul)

"See, see, our honour'd hostess!"



"Fair and noble hostess, we are your guests to-night"

Duncan to Lady Macbeth


Dramatic irony since the only reason Lady Macbeth is so pleased to see him is that she can oversee his murder later

"If it were done, when 'tis fone, then 'twere well it were done quickly"



"Might be the be-all and the end-all, here"

Macbeth (aside)


If he is to do the assassination, it must be done quick

"That we but teach bloody instructions, which being taught, return to plague the inventor"

Macbeth (aside)


Karma, he shouldn't kill the King since:


He's his cousin or his King


He should be protecting him


He was a good King


"I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and calls on the other"

Macbeth (aside)


Macbeth admits his fatal flaw, he has vaulting ambition. Normal people have intent and leap to it, Macbeth vaults over it which will lead to his demise

"He hath honored me of late, and I have bought golden opinion from all sorts of people, which would be worn now in their newest gloss"

Macbeth to Lady Macbeth


Duncan has already given Macbeth honor and respects him. He has been given new clothes

"Art thou afread to be the same in thine own act and valour as thou art in desire?



"And live a coward in thine own esteem?"

Lady Macbeth to Macbeth


Lady Macbeth thinks Macbeth is a coward, he wants to be King, but doesn't do the things to make him King

"I have given suck, and know how tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, and dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this"

Lady Macbeth to Macbeth


Lady Macbeth says that if she promised something, she would have done it

"Away, and mock the time with fairest show: False face must hide what the false heart doth know"

Macbeth to Lady Macbeth


Macbeth must play the role of a good host to the guests to cover up their involvement with the murder

"Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done't"

Lady Macbeth to Macbeth


Lady Macbeth does show some human qualities

"No o'er the one half-world nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse the curtain'd sleep"

Macbeth (aside)


The black night encourages the conductance of evil deeds. As the darkness prevents the witnessing of horrendous actions and the lack of stars means there is no illuminating judgement of heaven to stir the criminal conscience

"And the surfeited grooms do mock their charge with snores: I have drugg'd their possets"

Lady Macbeth to Macbeth


What are suppose to be hearty drinks to soothe the soldiers to sleep actually robs them of their tranquility and pleasure. Lady Macbeth has poisoned the nurturing milk

"These deeds must not be thought after these wasy; so, it will make us mad"

Lady Macbeth to Macbeth


Foreshadowing since Lady Macbeth does insane later and Macbeth loses sleep

"It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman, which gives the stern'st good-night"

Lady Macbeth (aside)


The owl is another ill omen, the shriek foreshadows that a terrible deed is about to occur

"There's husbandry in heaven; their cancles are all out"

Banquo to Fleance


After the moon goes down on the night Macbeth kills Duncan. There is no star seen in the sky - just as Macbeth wanted

"Methought I heard voices cry 'Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep' - the innocent sleep, sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care, the death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast"



"Still it cried 'Sleep no more!' to all the house; 'Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more: Macbeth shall sleep no more'"

Macbeth to Lady Macbeth


Those who are guilty cannot sleep. Sleep is a privilege for the good and innocent. Having murdered the King, Macbeth is no longer capable of a peaceful slumber. He has also spoiled the peace in his country



The witches have cursed him with sleeplessness

"What hands are here? Ha! They pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune's oceans wash this blood clean from m hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnating masking the green one red"

Macbeth (aside)


In contrast to how Lady Macbeth just says that "a little water" will clear the guilt, Macbeth is horrified by the "sorry sight" of his bloody hands and doesn't want to see it. Macbeth feels remorse and guilt for his actions

"Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou could'st"

Macbeth to Lady Macbeth


Shows Macbeth's remorse for killing Duncan. Macbeth feels immediate guilt

"Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, and look on death itself! Up, up, and see the great doom's image!"

Macduff to Everyone on Stage


Sleep is like death, only it is not permanent like the latter

"That night has been unruly...as they see, lamentings heard I' the air, strange screams of death, and prophesying, with accents terrible, of fire combustion, and confus'd events, new hatch'd to the woful time: the obscure bird, clamout'd the liveblong night: some say, the earth was feverous, and did shake"

Lennox to Macbeth


Pathetic Fallacy, the natural world is unruly since the order of human society has been overturned or upset. By the immoral murder of the king, Macbeth is now imposing artificial innocence upon himself and will play falsely to attain Malcolm's throne. The world bemoans Macbeth's deed by being tumultuous

"In the great hand of God I stand, and thence against the undivulg'd pretence I fight of treasonous malice"

Banquo to Donalbain, Malcolm, Macduff


Banquo takes the lead in the investigation and will find whoever is guilty

"There's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood, the nearer the bloody"
Donaldbain to Malcolm
Donalman knows that guests cannot trust each other. The murderer is among them

"Lest our old robes sit easier than our new!"

Macduff to Ross


Macduff is wary of Macbeth becoming King; Duncan was already a well respected King who was familiar and well-liked in his position

"Tis unnatural, even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last, a falcon towering in her pride of place was by a mousing owl hawk'd at, and kill'd"

Old Man to Ross


Pathetic fallacy. When Duncan was killed by his lowlier subject (Macbeth) the nature of order was overturned in human society. This was echoed in nature when an owl (top of the food chain) was killed by a lowlier hawk

"By the clock t'is day, and yet dark night struggles the travelling lamp: Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame, that darkness does the face of earth entomb when living light should kiss it"

Ross to Old Man


The night would be stronger because in the night, the good King was murdered and the day is ashamed to shed light after the bloody scene

"Gainst nature still: Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up thine own life's means!"

Ross to Macduff


It would be against nature to kill your own father to take the throne. But this is what it looks like Malcolm and Donalbain have done by escaping the castle for their own safety. Macbeth exaggerates these suspicious events to avoid attracting attention to himself