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Title: Key Themes in Macbeth
Description: Here there are all the key quotes in Macbeth, divided into the 5 main themes, so are perfect to use when revising for an exam. I used these for my Eng. Lit. GCSE in Summer 2017 and gained an A* under the new syllabus.
Description: Here there are all the key quotes in Macbeth, divided into the 5 main themes, so are perfect to use when revising for an exam. I used these for my Eng. Lit. GCSE in Summer 2017 and gained an A* under the new syllabus.
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Themes in Macbeth
Ambition
Act 1 Scene 4: Macbeth- ‘Black and deep desires’
Act 1 Scene 5: Lady Macbeth- ‘Shalt be what thou art promised’
Act 2 Scene 1: Macbeth-‘Is this a dagger I see before me?’
Act 2 Scene 4: Ross (about Malcolm) -‘Thriftless ambition’
Act 1 Scene 2: Captain- ‘All’s too weak for brave Macbeth’
Act 3 Scene 2: Macbeth- ‘We have scorched the snake, not killed it’
Appearance vs Reality
Act 1 Scene 6: Lady Macbeth- ‘Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent
under it’
Act 1 Scene 7: Duncan- ‘This castle hath a pleasant seat’
Act 1 Scene 7: Macbeth- ‘False face must hide what the false heart doth know’
Act 2 Scene 2: Lady Macbeth- ‘A little water clears us of this deed’
Act 1 Scene 3: Witches (about Banquo)- ‘Not so happy, yet much happier’
Act 5 Scene 5: Macbeth- ‘Out out brief candle’
Fate vs Freewill
Act 1 Scene 3: Macbeth- ‘Chance may crown me’
Act 3 Scene 1: Macbeth- ‘Barren sceptre in my gripe’
Act 3 Scene 5: Hecate- ‘He shall spurn fate’
Act 4 Scene 1: Stage direction-‘A child crowned with a tree’
Act 5 Scene 1: Lady Macbeth- ‘Out dammed spot’
Natural vs Unnatural
Act 2 Scene 1: Macbeth-‘Is this a dagger I see before me?’
Act 2 Scene 2: Macbeth- ‘Macbeth does murder sleep’
Act 1 Scene 1: ‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair’
Act 4 Scene 1: Macbeth-‘None of woman born shall harm Macbeth’
Act 5 Scene 1: Doctor- ‘Unnatural deeds do bring unnatural troubles’
Act 5 Scene 5: Macbeth- ‘What is that noise?’
Manhood
Act 2 Scene 3: Macduff- ‘The repetition in a woman’s ear would murder as it
fell’
Act 1 Scene 5: Macbeth- ‘Dearest partner of greatness’
Act 1 Scene 5: Lady Macbeth-‘Take my milk for gall’
Act 3 Scene 1: Macbeth -‘He hath a wisdom that does guide his valour’
Act 3 Scene 4: Lady Macbeth -‘A woman’s story at a winter’s fire’
Act 4 Scene 3: Macduff- ‘All these are portable, with other graces weighed up’
Act 4 Scene 3: Macduff- ‘Not to live
Title: Key Themes in Macbeth
Description: Here there are all the key quotes in Macbeth, divided into the 5 main themes, so are perfect to use when revising for an exam. I used these for my Eng. Lit. GCSE in Summer 2017 and gained an A* under the new syllabus.
Description: Here there are all the key quotes in Macbeth, divided into the 5 main themes, so are perfect to use when revising for an exam. I used these for my Eng. Lit. GCSE in Summer 2017 and gained an A* under the new syllabus.