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“Thou hast it now - King, Cawdor, Glamis, all,/ As the weird women promised; and I fear/ Thou play’dst most foully for’t.”
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speaker- Banquo
Situation- Macbeth has just been named king of Scotland. Significance- Banquo thinks that Macbeth had something to do with the murder of Duncan |
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“We hear our bloody cousins are bestowed/ In England and in Ireland, not confessing/ Their cruel parricide.”
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Speaker- Macbeth
Situation- the men just found out that Duncan's sons ran away, one to England and one to Ireland Significance- Macbeth is trying to convince people that they ran away because they killed their dad, and ran so they didn't get in trouble. |
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“Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown/ And put a barren scepter in my gripe, Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand,/ No son of mine succeeding.”
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Speaker- Macbeth
Situation- Macbeth has just become king, him and Banquo are talking Significance- Macbeth says that he has no kids to be successors, he thinks this will be what leads to the fourth Prophesy to become true, that Banquo's son will be king. |
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‘‘Tis safer to be that which we destroy/ Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.”
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Speaker- "Lady Macbeth
Situation- We, the audience, just found out Macbeth's plan to kill Banquo Significance- She is very troubled by all the events happening in short succession |
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“Come, seeling night,/ Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day,/ And with thy bloody and invisible hand/ Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond/ Which keeps me pale.”
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Speaker- Macbeth
Situation- Macbeth hints that something bad will happen Significance- Macbeth does not want the fourth prophesy to come true, so he plans to kill Banquo and Fleance |
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“O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!”
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Speaker- Banquo
Situation- Macbeth's men are ambushing Banquo and Fleance Significance- Banquo tells Fleance to run, and he gets away from the murderers. The fourth prophesy can still come true |
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“There the grown serpent lies; the worm that’s fled/ Hath nature that in time will venom breed,/ No teeth for th’ present.”
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Speaker- Macbeth
Situation- he just found out that Fleance was not killed. Significance- He is not too upset with the news, he mainly wanted to kill Banquo because he is the only other one who knew about the fourth prophesy. Fleance serves little threat |
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“Sit, worthy friends. My lord is often thus,/ And hath been from his youth. Pray you keep seat./ The fit is momentary; upon a thought/ He will again be well.”
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Speaker- Lady Macbeth
Situation- Banquo's ghost is showing up at Macbeth's feast and Macbeth is the only one who can see him and he is going crazy Significance- Lady is covering for Macbeth, saying he has a great illness that he has had from birth. She doesn't want the other lords to become suspicious. |
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“I am in blood/ Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more,/ Returning were as tedious as go o’er,”
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Speaker- Macbeth
Situation- Macbeth's feast has just ended because of Banquo's ghost. Significance- Macbeth says he has killed so many people, that no matter what he can not be forgiven. He will kill anyone else who gets in his way. |
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“Things have been strangely borne. The gracious Duncan/ was pitied of Macbeth. Marry, he was dead./ And the right valiant Banquo walked too late;/ Whom, you may say (if’t please you) Fleance killed,/ For Fleance fled.”
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Speaker- Lennox
Situation- He is telling some other lords about the deaths of Duncan and Banquo Significance- Lennox is starting to suspect that Macbeth did the murders. |
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“Some holy angel/ Fly to the court of England and unfold/ His message ere he come, that a swift blessing/ May soon return to this our suffering country/ Under a hand accursed!”
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Speaker- Lennox
Situation- he wants to send a message to Malcolm Significance- He believes that Malcolm can save them from Macbeth, and Malcolm will be a better king. |
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“By the pricking of my thumbs,/ Something wicked this way comes.”
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Speaker- witch
Situation- The witches and Hecate are preparing a potion for Macbeth Significance- They hear that Macbeth has arrived, The potion is going to be used to make Macbeth weary about his position as king.`` |
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“From this moment/ The very firstlings of my heart shall be/ The firstlings of my hand.”
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Speaker- Macbeth
Situation- Macbeth just received the three aparitions Significance- Macbeth will do whatever come to his mind first to keep his position as king. |
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“Whither should I fly?/ I have done no harm. But I remember now/ I am in this earthly world, where to do harm/ Is often laudable, to do good sometime/ Accounted dangerous folly.”
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Speaker- Lady Macduff
Situation- A messenger has just told her that she needs to run away Significance- She doesn't know why she needs to run, she hasn't done anything wrong yet. |
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“What you have spoke, it may be so perchance./ This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,/ Was once thought honest; you have loved him well;/ He hath not touched you yet."
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Speaker- Malcolm
Situation- Macduff went to England to get Malcolm to come back and kill Macbeth Significance- Malcolm doesn't believe that Macduff is saying truth, he thinks Macduff is on Macbeth's side. |
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“That, when they shall be opened, black Macbeth/ Will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state/ Esteem him as a lamb, being compared/ With my confineless harms.”
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Speaker- Malcolm
Situation- Macduff is trying to Malcolm to come back to Scotland and kill Macbeth Significance- Malcolm says he will be a much worse king than Macbeth and the people won't like him |
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“But there’s no bottom, none,/ In my voluptuousness. Your wives, your daughters,/ Your matrons, and your maids could not fill up/ The cistern of my lust.”
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Speaker- Malcolm
Situation- Macduff is trying to get him to go back and kill Macbeth Significance- Malcolm says he will be a terrible king. Specifically that the people will not be able to satisfy his sexual desires. |
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“O nation miserable,/ With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptred,/ When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again?”
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Speaker- Macduff
Situation- Malcolm is not convinced yet to go back and be king Significance- Macduff finally gives up with Malcolm, Malcolm will not go back with him. |
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“Such welcome and unwelcome things at once/ ‘Tis hard to reconcile.”
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Speaker- Macduff
Situation- Malcolm just said he will come back to Scotland and kill Macbeth to be king Significance- Macduff had given up on Malcolm, and Macduff doesn't know if he believes Malcolm or not after all the arguing. |
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“Your castle is surprised, your wife and babes/ Savagely slaughtered. To relate the manner/ Were, on the quarry of these murdered deer,/ To add the death of you.”
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Speaker- Ross
Situation- Angus just told Macduff that his family has been murdered. Significance- Ross did not want to tell Macduff the whole story, he left out many details. Macduff is very upset about this and wants to kill Macbeth |
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“But, gentle heavens,/ Cut short all intermission. Front to front/ Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself./ Within my sword’s length set him.”
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Speaker- Macduff
Situation- Ross told Macduff that his family has been murdered. Significance- Macduff is finally ready to go and kill Macbeth himself. |
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“Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One - two - why/ then ‘tis time to do’t. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie! A/ soldier and afeard?”
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Speaker- Lady Macbeth
Situation- Lady is sleepwalking in the bathroom and is washing her hands, the doctor and a gentlewoman are watching her Significance- She is finally feeling guilty about what her and Macbeth have done. She said at first that only a little water was needed to wash away the deeds, now she just washes her hands constantly to get the sin away. |
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“Those he commands move only in command,/ Nothing in love. Now does he feel his title/ Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe/ Upon a dwarfish thief.”
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Speaker- Angus
Situation- the men who are planning to kill Macbeth are planning to meet at Birnam wood. Significance- Angus says that Macbeth does not deserve to be king, the robes don't belong to him, this brings the point of borrowed robes back up. |
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“Cure her of that!/ Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,/ Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,/ Raze out the written troubles of the brain,/ And with some sweet oblivious antidote/ Cleanse the stuffed bosom of the perilous stuff/ Which weighs upon the heart?”
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Speaker- Macbeth
Situation- Macbeth is talking to the doctor about Lady Macbeth Significance- Lady Macbeth is going crazy, Macbeth wants the doctor to do whatever he has to too heal her. The doctor says Lady Macbeth has to do it on her own, there is nothing he can do to help. |
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“Out, out, brief candle!/ Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player/ That struts and frets his hour upon the stage/ And then is heard no more. It is a tale/ Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/ Signifying nothing.”
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Speaker- Macbeth
Situation- Macbeth just found out that Lady Macbeth has died. Significance- Macbeth states that life is short and basically meaningless. He was only doing all the deeds he did for Lady Macbeth. Now she is gone and he has nothing to live for. |
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“The castle’s gently rend’red:/ The tyrant’s people on both sides do fight,/ The noble thanes do bravely in the war,/ The day almost itself professes yours/ And little is to do.”
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Speaker- Siwards
Situation- The men are just about ready to go kill Macbeth Significance- Macbeth's men are switching sides and Macbeth is coming to meet them so the gate is open. Siward explains that killing Macbeth will be very simple. |
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“Despair thy charm,/ And let the angel whom thou still hast served/ Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb/ Untimely ripped.”
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Speaker- Macduff
Situation- Macbeth and Macduff are fighting Significance- Macduff was born by a c-section, by doctor's hands, not to a woman. This means that Macduff doesn't fit the apparition saying no man born to a women can kill Macbeth. Macduff therefore can kill Macbeth. |
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“No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive/ Our bosom interest. Go pronounce his present death/ And with his former title greet Macbeth.”
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Speaker- Duncan
Situation-Macbeth has just killed the traitor (A.K.A Thane of Cawdor) Significance- Macbeth is now the Thane of Cawdor, which fulfills the second prophesy. |
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“So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”
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Speaker- Macbeth
Situation- these are Macbeth's first words, he and Banquo are returning from the battle Significance- Macbeth has never seen a day so foul, because of the bad weather. He also has never seen a day so fair, because they won the battle. Macbeth echoes the witches when he uses this Paradox. |
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“Good sir, why do you start and seem to fear/ Things that do sound so fair?”
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Speaker- Banquo
Situation- Banquo and Macbeth are listening to the witches. Significance- Banquo says that Macbeth looks scared. He doesn't understand why he is upset though, the prophecies seem to be good. |
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“Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more:/ By Sinel’s death I know I am Thane of Glamis,/ But how of Cawdor?”
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Speaker- Macbeth
Situation- Him and Banquo just received the prophecies from the witches. Significance- Macbeth doesn't knows he is Thane of Glamis, because his father, former Thane, died. He doesn't know how he can be Thane of Cawdor when the present Thane is still alive. |
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“The Thane of Cawdor lives. Why do you dress me/ In borrowed robes?”
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Speaker- Macbeth
Situation- Angus and Ross just told Macbeth he is to be Thane of Cawdor Significance- Macbeth wonders why he is called the Thane of Cawdor, the Thane of Cawdor is still alive. This brings up "borrowed robes" for the first time. |
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“This supernatural soliciting/ Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill,/ Why hath it given me earnest of success,/ Commencing in a truth?”
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Speaker- Macbeth
Situation- he is talking about the witches prophecies Significance- He doesn't know whether to believe the witches or not, so far they have been right though. |
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“There’s no art/ To find the mind’s construction in the face./ He was a gentleman on whom I built/ An absolute trust.”
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Speaker- Duncan
Situation- He is talking about the former Thane of Cawdor. Significance- He says he had trusted the former Thane and then he was backstabbed. It is ironic because Macbeth, who the king trusts, has had thoughts about killing Duncan. |
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“We will establish our estate upon/ Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter/ The Prince of Cumberland.”
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Speaker- Duncan
Situation- He just crowns Malcolm prince of Cumberland Significance- Macbeth now has to go through two men to become the King and fulfill the prophecy. |
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“The Prince of Cumberland - that is a step/ On which I must fall down or else o’erleap,/ For in my way it lies.”
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Speaker- Macbeth
Situation- he is talking about how he will become king Significance- he says he has to either stop the plan of killing Duncan to be king, or kill Malcolm and the king, not one or the other. |
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“Glamis thou art, and Cawdor and shalt be/ What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature./ It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness/ To catch the nearest way.”
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Speaker- Lady Macbeth
Situation- she is reading a letter from Macbeth Significance- She sees that Macbeth is Thane of Glamis and now is Thane of Cawdor as well. She really wants to be queen, so she wants Macbeth to do whatever it takes to become king. She fears though that he is too kind to do whatever it takes to become king. |
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“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.”
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Speaker- Lady Macbeth
Situation- She is going to meet Macbeth Significance- Women are normally seen as nice, kind people. She wants to be queen, and she doesn't think Macbeth will do something to become king. She wants some spirit to come and take away her womanly qualities so she can do the deed herself. |
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“To beguile the time,/ Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,/ Your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower,/ But be the serpent under’t.”
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Speaker- Lady Macbeth
Situation- Her and Macbeth are making a plan to kill the king. Significance- she wants Macbeth to seem all nice and kind, like a flower when the king shows up. When it comes time to do the murder, though, she wants him to be vicious, like the serpent under the flower. |
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“I have no spur/ To prick the sides of my intent, but only/ Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself/ And falls on th’ other--”
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Speaker- Macbeth
Situation- He is contemplating the plan for killing Duncan Significance- He likes Duncan and does not want to see him dead. The only reason he will kill him is because he wants to be king so badly. |
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“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 plucked my nipple from his boneless gums/ And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you/ Have done to this.”
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Speaker- Lady Macbeth
Situation- her and Macbeth are going over the plan to kill Duncan. Significance- She tells Macbeth that she would kill her own baby if she said she would. Macbeth said he would kill Duncan, now he is not sure if he will or not, Lady Macbeth is saying that he is a girl. |
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“I am settled, and bend up/ Each corporal agent to this terrible feat./ Away, and mock the time with fairest show;/ False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”
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Speaker- Macbeth
Situation-Lady Macbeth is trying to convince Macbeth to kill Duncan Significance- Macbeth finally completely decides to kill Duncan |
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“Merciful powers,/ Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature/ Gives way to in repose.”
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Speaker- Banquo
Situation- he is talking to Fleance Significance- He doesn't want to do anything bad to fulfill his prophecy, he wants it to happen naturally. He is becoming Macbeth's Foil. |
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“Is this a dagger which I see before me,/ The handle toward my hand?”
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Speaker- Macbeth
Situation- the deed is about to go down Significance- he is hallucinating that the dagger is in front of him that he is going to use to kill the King. |
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“I go, and it is done. The bell invites me./ Hear it no, Duncan, for it is a knell/ That summons thee to heaven, or to hell.”
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Speaker- Macbeth
Situation- The deed is going to happen very soon Significance- he hears the bell, which is a sign from Lady Macbeth. It signals that is time to go and kill Duncan |
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“I laid their daggers ready -/ He could not miss ‘em. Had he not resembled/ My father as he slept, I had done’t.”
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Speaker- Lady Macbeth
Situation- Lady Macbeth has every thing ready for Macbeth Significance- She has all the plans ready, all Macbeth has to do is kill Duncan. She would have done it b herself, had Duncan not looked so much like her father when he slept. |
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“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood/ Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather/ The multitudinous seas incarnadine,/ Making the green one red.”
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Speaker- Macbeth
Situation- Macbeth just killed Macbeth and is taking the daggers back to the room where Duncan is. Significance- Macbeth says it will take more than all the waters on the world to wash away his guilt from the deed. |
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“A little water clears us of this deed.”
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Speaker- Lady Macbeth
Situation- The deed has just been done by Macbeth Significance- Lady says all Macbeth has to do is wash his hands a little. This shows that she feels very little guilt from what they did. |
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“Confusion now hath made his masterpiece:/ Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope/ The lord’s anointed temple and stole thence/ The life o’ th’ building!”
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Speaker- Macduff
Situation- some men have just arrived at Macbeth's castle to get Duncan. Significance- Macduff goes to wake up Duncan. He realizes that he is dead and how much of a shame it is because he was a great king. |
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“Who could refrain/ That had a heart to love, and in that heart/ Courage to make’s love known?”
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Speaker- Macbeth
Situation- Macbduff and the others realize that the guards are dead as well Significance- Macbeth says he killed the guards. He says he loved the king so much, he could not help himself, even though him and Lady framed the guards. They killed them mainly so they could not defend themselves. |
