weather - three witches
“thunder and lightning. Enter three witches”
paradoxical language - witches
“fair is foul and foul is fair: hover through the fog and filthy air”
brave macbeth
“brave macbeth - well he deserves that name” “till he unseamed him from the nave to the chaps”
macbeth dark
“stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and depp desires”
lady macbeth ambition
“come you spirits… unsex me here.”
lady macbeth deception
“look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.”
macbeth, regret
“will all great neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? no, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine”
lady macbeth, downplay guilt
“a little water clears us of this deed”
macbeth, divine rights
“his silver skin laced with his golden blood”
ross
“by the clock ‘tis day, and yet dark night strangled the traveling lamp”
macbeth, exclamation
“O! full of scorpions is my mind”
macbeth (to banquo ghost)
“thou canst not say i did it: never shake thy glory locks at me”
malcom
“it weeps, it bleeds”
lady macbeth, reveals guilt
“out damned spot! out, i say!-hell is murky”
macbeth violent
“ill fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked. give me my armour”