Macbeth Quotes

Macbeth quotes 

symbolism “stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires.”

Ambition  “with his brandished steel, which smoked with bloody execution, carved out his passage, till he faced the slave”. 

Morality “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?”

Metaphysical aid “by the clock tis day, and yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp. Is’t night’s predominance, or the day’s shame, that darkness does the face of earth where living light should kiss it?”

Metaphysical aid “When shall we three meet again, in thunder lightning or in rain?” “When the hurlyburly’s done, when the battle’s lost and won.”

Lady Macbeth is strong minded “unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty!”

Loss of morality” I will not yield, to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet, and to be baited with the rabble’s curse, though Birnam Wood be come to Dunsinane, and thou opposed, being of no woman born, yet I will try the last. Before my body I throw my warlike shield.” 

  loss of morality ”She should have died hereafter, There would have been a time for such a word.”

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