A quotation to support the theme of ‘Ambition’.
“Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires.”
“Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here.”
“Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself.”
“To be thus is nothing; But to be safely thus.”
A quotation to support the theme of ‘Appearance vs Reality’.
“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t.”
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”
A quotation to support the theme of ‘Guilt’
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”
“Sleep no more: Macbeth does sleep no more”
“O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!”
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”
A quotation to support the theme of ‘Instability/ Poor Wellbeing’
“A dagger of the mind, a false creation”
“Quit my sight, let the Earth hide thee”
“O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!”
Quotations to show Scotland was suffering
“Alas, poor country! Almost afraid to know itself.”
“Our country sinks beneath the yoke; it weeps, it bleeds”
“Bleed, bleed, poor country!”
Masculinity
“For brave Macbeth—well he deserves that name disdaining fortune”
“Thy nature it is too full o’th’ milk of human kindness”
“Wouldst thou have that which thou esteem’st the ornament of life, and live a coward”
Macbeth being described evil
“Something wicked this way comes.”
“This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues”
“Of horrid hell can come a devil more damn’d in evils to top Macbeth”
A quotation to support the theme of ‘The Supernatural’
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”
“Thou hast harped my fear aright”
“To win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths”
