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| "We have scorched the snake, |
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(The witches first prophecies)
"All hail Macbeth! |
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Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!"
Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!"
Thou shalt be king hereafter."
The witches. |
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| "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, |
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| but only vaulting ambition, which o'er leaps itself and falls on the other." Macbeth. |
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(Of Duncan's murder)
"Bloody |
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| Let not night see my black and deep desires." Macbeth. |
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(Euphemism for nagging)
"For a |
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| few words." Lady Macbeth. |
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(About killing)
"We are yet |
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| but young indeed." Macbeth. |
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| Can the devil speak true?" Banquo. |
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(About the murder)
"What's done |
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| "'Tis safer to be that which we destroy than |
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| by destruction dwell in doubtful joy." Lady Macbeth. |
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| "Is this a dagger which I see before me, |
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| the handle toward my hand?" Macbeth. |
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(Of Banquo's ghost)
"If I stand here, |
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| "Let the frame of things disjoint, |
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| both the worlds suffer." Macbeth. |
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(Of Duncan's sons)
"Bloody |
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(A new position)
"Hail, most |
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| worth Thane! For it is thine." Ross. |
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| "To our dear friend Banquo, |
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| whom we miss, were he here." Macbeth. |
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(Metaphor for sleep)
"Chief nourisher |
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| in life's feast." Macbeth. |
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(To the witches)
"Say from whence you owe |
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| this strange intelligence?" Macbeth. |
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| "Make our faces vizards to |
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| our hearts, disguising what they are." Macbeth. |
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(Manipulative technique)
"Infirm of |
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| "Macbeth shall never vanquished be, until Great Birnam Wood |
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| to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him." Apparition #3 |
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(To the hired murderers)
"I will advise you |
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| where to plant yourself." Macbeth. |
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| keep alone?" Lady Macbeth. |
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(Of the witches)
"May they not be my oracles as well, |
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| and set me up in hope?" Banquo. |
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(Of the witches)
"I think not |
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(Appearances vs. reality)
"There's daggers in |
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| men's smiles." Donalbain. |
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(Planning the murder)
"Unsex |
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(Recalling a voice)
"Macbeth does |
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| "He is here in double trust: first, |
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| as I am his kinsman and subject, strong both against the deed." Macbeth. |
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(Continuing the internal conflict before killing Duncan)
"Then, as his host, who should |
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| against the murderer shut the door, not bear the knife myself!" Macbeth. |
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(Hands motif)
"A little water |
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| clears us of this deed." Lady Macbeth. |
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(Macbeth's plans)
"I will tomorrow |
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| to the Weyard Sisters." Macbeth. |
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| "I dare do all that may become a man; |
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| who dares do more is none." Macbeth. |
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| "If chance will have me king, |
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| why, chance may crown me." Macbeth. |
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| our meal in fear." Macbeth. |
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(To Banquo before he dies)
"God be |
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| "And fill me from the crown to the toe |
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| top-full of the direst cruelty." Lady Macbeth. |
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| shall harm Macbeth." Apparition #2. |
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(Manipulative technique)
"Shame |
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| "Thy blood is cold; thou hast no |
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| speculation in those eyes which thou dost glare with." Macbeth. |
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| to the sticking place!" Lady Macbeth. |
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| "You all know, security is |
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| mortal's chiefest enemy." Heccat. |
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| "Yet do I fear thy nature: it is too full |
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| o'th'milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way." Lady Macbeth. |
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| most foully for't." Banquo. |
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| "I am in blood stepped so far that, |
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| should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er." Macbeth. |
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(Manipulative technique)
"Are you |
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| "Look like the innocent flower, |
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| but be the serpent under't." Lady Macbeth. |
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| "Go get me water, and wash this |
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| filthy witness from your hand." Lady Macbeth. |
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| "Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, |
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| till thou applaud the deed." Macbeth. |
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| "The time has been that, when the brains were out, the man |
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| would die, and there an end, but now they rise again..." Macbeth. |
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| "False face must hide what |
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| the false heart doth know." Macbeth. |
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| but to be safely thus." Macbeth. |
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| in borrowed robes?" Macbeth. |
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| "If it were done when 'tis done, |
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| then 'twere well it were done quickly." Macbeth. |
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| "But now I am cabined, cribbed, |
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| confined, bound in to my saucy doubts and fears." Macbeth. |
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| "Affliction of these terrible dreams |
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| which shake us nightly." Macbeth. |
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(Thinking about the murder)
"It will make |
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| scorn death and bear his hopes 'bove wisdom." Heccat. |
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(After Banquo's ghost disappears)
"I am |
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| "We but teach bloody instructions, which, |
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| being taught, return to plague the inventor." Macbeth. |
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