“Liver of a blaspheming Jew” | (3rd witch) doesn’t make sense, shows Shakespeare’s religion that he doesn’t like Jews |
“Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff” | (1st Apperition) beware Macduff |
“laugh to scorn the power of man, for none born of women shall harm Macbeth” | (2nd Apperition) no one can hurt Macbeth |
“Macbeth shall never vanquish’d be until Great Birnam wood to high Dusinane hill shall come against him” | Macbeth will be fine until the forest comes to the castle |
“Seise upon fife, give to the edge o’ the sword his wife, his bless, and all unfortunate should that trace him in his life” | (Macbeth) we will kill Macduff’s family and everyone else |
“Then the liars and swearers are fools; for there are liars and swearers enow to be the honest men and hang up them” | (son of Macduff) there are more bad people in the world than good people, so why wouldn’t the bad people join together and overthrow the good people? |
“This tyrant whose sole name blisters our tongues, was once thought honest” | (Malcolm) how can he trust Macduff when he once trusted Macbeth? |
Why in that rawness left you wife and child, these precious motives, those strong knots of love, without leave-taking? | (Malcolm) Malcolm doesn’t think he should trust Macduff when he left his family in the awfulness of Scotland |
“Not in the legions of horrid hell can come a devil more damn’d in evils to top Macbeth” | (Macduff) Macbeth is worse than the devil |
“And my more-having would be as a sauce to make me hunger more” | (Malcolm) the more Malcolm gets the more he wants. hens calling himself greedy |
“Lets make us medicines of our great revenge, to cure this deadly grief” | (Malcolm) Malcolm said to Macduff that they should kill Macbeth because he killed Macduff’s family |
“out Damn’d spot! Out I say” | (Lady MAcbeth) she’s trying to get blood off her hands |
“Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets” | (Doctor) Lady Macbeth can’t control her mind at night like she can in the day |
“The mind I sway by and the heart I bear shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear” | (Macbeth) Macbeth will never be afraid again |
“Let every soldier hew him down a bough, and bear’t before him: thereby shall we shadow the numbers of our host” | (Malcolm) soldiers can hide behind the wood as they carry the forrest to the castle |
“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and furry, signifying nothing” | (Macbeth) life is going to happen and everyone will die, doesn’t care that his wife died |
“The devil himself could not pronouce a title more hateful to mine ear” | (Young Siward) Macbeth has been bad to Scotland so Young Siward doesn’t like him |
“Near Birnam Wood shall we meet them; that way are they coming” | (Angus) we will meet them at Birnam Wood, they are coming that way |
Macbeth act 4/5 with meanings
August 21, 2019