Macbeth Quotes Onika

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quotes about darkness

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- 'come thick night and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell' =Lady Macbeth A1S5
-'nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark to cry hold hold' - Lady Macbeth A1S5
-'stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires' Macbeth
- ' the instruments of darkness' how the witches are described by darkness

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quotes for red and blood

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- 'will all great Neptune ocean wash the blood clean from my hand' Macbeth
- 'heres the smell of the blood still, all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand' Lady M
-'out damned spot out I say' Lady m
M&LM mirroring each other

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quotes about ghosts

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- 'i tell you yet again Banquo is buried he cannot come out on's grave' Lady M nearing death
- [seeing Ghost] 'Avaunt and quit my sight!... thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold' Macbeth = supernatural or psychological?

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quotes about fear

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- 'take any shape but that and my firm nerves shall never tremble or be alive again'- M upon seeing Banquos ghost
- 'keep the natural ruby of your cheeks while mine blanched with fear' M to Lady M about Banquos ghost
-' she has light by her continually: tis her command' Attendant on Lady M's fear of darkness

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Quotes about violence / savagery / barbarism

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- 'he unseamed him from the nave to the chops' the captain about Macbeth
- ' his brandished steel which smoked with bloody execution'
-' while it was smiling in my face have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out' Lady M about lost child
- 'give to the edge o'the sword his wife his babes and all unfortunate souls that trace him in his line' Macbeth
- ' i'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked' Macbeth

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quotes about fate

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[Aside] 'If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir.' (1.3.10) Macbeth

' a drum a drum Macbeth doth come' Link between supernatural and Macbeth, they call upon him

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quotes about women as temptresses

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'look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it' Lady Macbeth (power and gothic contradiction)
-i may pour my spirits in thine ear

-Come you spirits that tend on moral thoughts, unsex me here

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quotes about women as victims

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-the thane of fife had a wife where is she now?
-lady macduff refers to herself as 'the poor wren/ the most diminutive of birds

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quotes about the supernatural

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- 'there to meet with Macbeth' witches have chosen him
- 'prophetic greeting' and 'supernatural soliciting' Macbeth about the witches
-'if chance will have me king,why,chance will crown me, without my stir' Macbeth
- ' the raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of duncan under my battlements' Lady M

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quotes about psychology

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Manifestation of Macbeths desire: 'is this a dagger which I see before me?'

'or art thou but a dagger of the mind? a false creation? proceeding from the heat oppressed brain'

'There's no such thing. It is the bloody business which informs thus to mine eyes'

Deterioration of Lady M's mental state: 'More needs she the divine than the physician'

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Religious Imagery

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-The devil himself could not pronounce a title more hateful to mine ear