| Ambition | Macbeth: “Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires” A1S4 |
| Supernatural | Witches “Something wicked this way comes,” A4S1 |
| Kingship | Malcolm : the king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temperance, stableness, Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, A4S3 |
| Ambition | Macbeth:I have no spur To prick the sides only Vaulting ambition, which oerleaps itself And falls on the other A1S7 |
| Ambition | Macbeth: Why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? A1S3 |
| Supernatural | Witches “Double double, toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.” A4S1 |
| Kingship | Macbeth “If chance shall have me king, then chance shall crown me” A1S3 |
| Supernatural | Macbeth: ‘heart throbs to know one more thing […] shall Banquo’s issue ever reign in this kingdom.’ A4S1 |
| Supernatural | “Macbeth: Bring me no more reports. Let them fly all. Till Birnam Wood remove to Dunsinane I cannot taint with fear. A5S3 |
| Ambition | Banquo :Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, as teh weird woman promised, and i fear thou play’dst most foully for it A3S1 |
| Kingship | Macbeth: Besides, this Duncan hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been so clear in his great office, that his virtues will plead like angels, trumpet-tongues against the deep damnation of his taking-off A1S7 |
| Gender | Macbeth : “Prithee, peace: / I dare do all that may become a man; / Who dares do more is none” A1S7 |
| Kingship | Malcolm : Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful, Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin (Qualities of a bad king) A4S3 |
| Supernatural | Old Man : ‘Tis unnatural, Even like the deed that’s done. On Tuesday last, A falcon, tow’ring in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. A2S4 |
| Good and Evil | “Macduff ; ‘All my pretty ones, did you say all?’ Ross: ‘Savagely slaughtered […] Wife, children, servants, all that could be found’ A4S3 |
| Kingship | Malcolm : were I king, I should cut off the nobles for their lands, Desire his jewels and this other’s house: And my more-having would be as a sauce To make me hunger more A4S3 |
| Gender | Lady Macbeth: “Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here” A1S5 |
| Gender | Lady Macbeth: “When you durst do it, then you were a man” A1S7 |
| Fate | Captain ; “And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling Showed like a rebel’s *****” A1S2 |
| Good and Evil | Macbeth ; “List’ning their fear I could not say “Amen’ “A2S2 |
| Fate | Witches “Thou shalt get king, though thou be none” A1S3 |
| Gender | Lady Macbeth : Yet i do fear my nature is too full o’th’milk of human kindness A1S5 |
| Kingship | Old Man ‘Tis said they eat each other (horses on the night of Duncans murder) A2S4 |
| Good and Evil | Sergeant: “Unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps” A1S2 |
| Fate | Captain ; “For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name) Disdaining Fortune” A1S2 |
| Kingship | Lord : “Holy King” A3S6 |
| Good and Evil | Witches :”Fair is foul and foul is fair” A1S1 |
| Fate | Macbeth “If chance shall have me king, then chance shall crown me” A1S3 |
| Gender | Lady Macbeth “Come to my woman’s breasts, And take my like for gall” A1S5 |
| Fate | Macbeth ; “come fate into the list, And champion me to th’ utterance!” A3S1 |
Macbeth Key Quotes – Themes
November 11, 2019