“That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold,what hath quenched them hath given me fire.” Lady Macbeth 2.2 | This is important because it shows Lady Macbeth has got the servants drunk so they will not guard the King. Also that she is ready for the murder. |
“Had he not resembled my father as he slept I had done’t.” Lady Macbeth 2.2 | This is important because it shows Lady Macbeth would have done anything for the death of the king if he didn’t look like her father. |
“Wherefore could I not pronounce ‘Amen’?I had most need of blessing, and ‘Amen’Stuck in my throat.” Macbeth 2.2 | This is important because it shows Macbeth is so guilty that he can not even say amen. Also he is so regretful about what he was done he thinks it would be insulting to God to say ‘amen’. |
“Methought I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep!’ the innocent sleep” Macbeth 2.2 | This is important because it shows Macbeth is guilty about what he has done. |
“Is this a dagger which I see before me” Macbeth 2.1 | This is important because it shows Macbeth is hallucinating before the murder of King Duncan. |
“I am afraid to think what I have done; look on’t again I dare not.” Macbeth 2.2 | This is important because it shows Macbeth is so guilty about committing the terrible deed that he can not look at what he has done again. |
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.”Macbeth 2.2 | This is important because it shows Macbeth thinks the blood will never wash of his hands and everyone will know that he murdered King Duncan. |
“Thou canst not say I did it; never shakeThy gory locks at me.” Macbeth 3.4 | This is important because it shows Macbeth thinks Banquo’s ghost is at the table. He sees him because he guilty about killing him and tries to say he did not have anything to do with his death. |
”Fair is foul, and foul is fair” Witches 1.1 | This is important because it is the main theme of the play, nothing is what it seems. |
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.” Lady Macbeth 5.1 | This is important because it shows Lady Macbeth can smell blood on her hands when there is no blood. And thinks nothing will stop the smell. |
“The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon! Where gott’st thou that goose look?” Macbeth 5.3 | This is important because it shows Macbeth is no longer guilty and is now angry at everyone wo is near him. |
“Macduff was from his mother’s wombUntimely ripped.” Macduff 5.7 | This is important because it shows Macduff can kill Macbeth and the three witches tricked him. |
“Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,I cannot taint with fear.” Macbeth 5.3 | This is important because it shows Macbeth will have no fair until Birnam Wood gets up and moves to Dunsinane. |
”I go, and it is done. The bell invites me.Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.” Macbeth 2.1 | This is important because the bell is telling him that the murder is ready to happen. |
“Glamis hath murdered sleep, and there Cawdor shall sleep no more, Macbeth shall sleep no more!” Macbeth 2.2 | This is important because it shows Macbeth is guilty right after the murder of King Duncan. |
”A little water clears us of this deed.” Lady Macbeth 2.2 | This is important because it shows Lady Macbeth shows no guilt after the murder. She also wants Macbeth not to show is guilt. |
Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under ‘t.” Lady Macbeth 1.5 | This is important because Lady Macbeth wants Macbeth to seem innocent but be ruthless and harmful to anyone who stands in his way to becoming King. |
”Which of you have done this?” ”The table’s full.” Macbeth 3.4 | These are important because they show Macbeth is guilty about ordering the murder of Banquo that he can see the ghost of Banquo at the table. |
”Of all men else I have avoided thee.But get thee back. My soul is too much charged with blood of thine already.” Macbeth 5.8 | This is important because it shows Macbeth wants him to leave because he is guilty of killing his family and thinks he will kill him to. |
“If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well it were done quickly.” Macbeth 1.7 | This is important because it when Macbeth first thinks about killing King Duncan. |
Macbeth Quotes
August 21, 2019