| Macbeth (aside) – internal conflict about whether or not he should kill Duncan. | ‘If chance may have me King, why, chance may have me, without my stir.’ |
| Macbeth to Lady Macbeth – conflict over Duncan’s murder plot. | ‘We will proceed no further in this business.’ |
| Lady Macbeth to Macbeth – conflict over Macbeth breaking his promise. | ‘…have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, and dashed the brains out, had i so sworn as you have done to this.’ |
| Macbeth to Lady Macbeth – conflict over Duncan”s murder plot. | ‘…who should against his murtherer shut the door, not bear the knife myself.’ |
| Banquo to Fleance – internal conflict about whether Macbeth won the throne fairly. | ‘A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, and yet i would not sleep.’ |
| Lady Macbeth to Macbeth – conflict over Duncan’s murder. | Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers:…’ |
| Macbeth and Macduff to each other – about Macbeth killing the King’s guard. | ‘O, yet i do repent me of my fury, that i did kill them.’ ‘Wherefore did you so?’ |
| The old man to Ross – comparison to Duncan’s murder. | ‘A falcon, tow’ring in her pride of place, was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.’ |
| Captain talks about Macbeth in battle – sets the tone for the rest of the play. | ‘Till he unseamed him from the nave to th’ chops.’ |
Macbeth Conflict Quotes
August 29, 2019