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28 Cards in this Set
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Fair is foul and foul is fair |
scene 1 act 1: the witches are saying that being good is wrong and being bad is good |
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If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grains will grow and which will not, speak now |
Act 1 scene 3: banquo is asking what will happen to him |
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And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence |
Act 1 scene 3: Banquo, saying that the witches have told them the truth and that the truth they have told them may have terrible consequences |
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If chance may have me king, why, chance may crown me |
Act 1 scene 3: Macbeth saying that if he is to become king because of the witches prophesy then he will let it happen |
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There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face |
Act 1 scene 4: Duncan saying that he call tell what people are thinking by the way they look |
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Let not light see me black and deep desires |
Act 1 scene 4: Macbeth saying he wants to kill the king but not wanting the heavens to find out |
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Unsex me here |
Act 1 scene 5: Lady Macbeth saying she wishes to be a man rather than a woman so she can be more powerful, especially during the time of James I |
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Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it |
Act 1 scene 5: Lady Macbeth telling Macbeth to look innocent but be dangerous and poisonous. |
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I dare do all that my become a man |
Act 1 scene 7: Macbeth saying that he dares so all to be the best he can and that is all |
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I have given suck and dash'd the brains out |
Act 1 scene 7: Lady Macbeth saying she is brave enough to kill her own child in an attempt to convince Macbeth to kill Duncan |
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Is this a dagger which i see before me |
Act 2 scene 1: Macbeth is hallucinating possibly showing his unstable mental state |
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There's daggers in men's smiles |
Act 2 scene 3: Donalbain saying that he does not feel safe and that there are traitors around |
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Had he not resembledMy father as he slept I had done’t |
Act 2 scene 2: Lady Macbeth saying that she would have killed Duncan herself had he not resembled her father. Goodness? Compassion? |
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I have done the deed |
Act 2 scene 3: Macbeth seems solumn about the act he has just committed. remorse? |
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But wherefore could I not pronounce ‘Amen’?I had most need of blessing, and ‘Amen’Stuck in my throat. |
Act 2 scene 3: Macbeth questioning why he could not say amen when he needed blessing the most. He cannot say it as he has killed a king, appointed by god. |
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Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep |
Act 2 scene 3: Macbeth killed Duncan in his sleep, Macbeth will destroy times of peace and goodness, e.g. sleep |
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Go get some water, And wash this filthy witness from your hand |
Act 2 scene 4: Lady Macbeth telling Macbeth to clean himself up so that he is not held responsible but also so that he feels better |
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Why did you bring these daggers from the place?They must lie there |
Act 2 scene 4: Lady Macbeth telling Macbeth that he is stupid and that the daggers must stay there so it looks like the guards have killed Duncan |
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I’ll go no more:I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on’t again I dare not |
Act 2 scene 4: Macbeth cannot bare to look upon what he has done it is so horrific, he is showing remorse |
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What hands are here! Ha! They pluck out mine eyes |
Act 2 scene 4: Macbeth is looking at his hands and is appalled by the blood he has put on them |
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Will all Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine |
Act 2 scene 4: all the water on Neptune could not wash away the deed and the blood on his hands would taint the water there, it is with him forever |
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but I shame to wear a heart so white |
Act 2 scene 4: Telling Macbeth not to be so cowardly |
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I fear Thou play’dst most foully for it |
Act 3 scene 1: Banquo is discovering what Macbeth has done to get the crown. |
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To be thus is nothing, But to be safely thus |
Act 3 scene 2: Macbeth is scared of what banquo will do to his crown and that it is pointless |
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Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren scepter in my gripe |
Act 3 scene 4: The crown is useless and so is the scepter he has been given as he has not had to work for it |
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We have scorched the snake, not killed it |
Act 3 scene 4: Macbeth is saying that they have only killed Banquo but because Flaence has got away it is useless |
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O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife. |
Act 3 scene 5: Macbeth is telling his wife that he is scared and is unsure of what will happen, also a hint at his mental s |
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He prepares for some attempt of war |
Act 3 scene 5: Macbeth is preparing to kill everyone and take full control of the country |
