Macbeth
Significant Quotes for your Macbeth Character Analysis and Development Essay
Opening Scene: Witches plan to meet Macbeth
(Act I, scene i)
Descriptions of Macbeth as “Brave,” and as a “Lion” and “Eagle.” COB “For Brave Macbeth, (for well he deserves that name), Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, (Like valor's minion), carved out his passage Till he faced the slave; Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, Till he unseamed him from the nave to the chops, And fix'd his head upon our battlements”. (Act I, scene ii, lines 16-24)
(Macbeth is a brave warrior)
“Yes, As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion”.
(Act I, scene ii, line 35)
(Connection of Macbeth to the COB)
Fearless [As] Bellona’s bridegroom (like the God of war) “The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict, Till that Bellona’s bridegroom, lapped in proof, Confronted him with self-comparisons, Point against point, rebellious arm ‘gainst arm, Curbing his lavish spirit; and to conclude The victory fell on us”.
(Act I, scene ii, lines 53-58)
Banquo [Post 3 Hails]”What, can the devil speak true?”
(Act I, scene iii, line 108)
(Referring to the witches prophecies)
Macbeth “Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme. –I thank you, gentlemen.-
(Aside) This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill; cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor. If good, 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? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smothered in surmise and nothing is But what is not….If chance will have
Opening Scene: Witches plan to meet Macbeth
(Act I, scene i)
Descriptions of Macbeth as “Brave,” and as a “Lion” and “Eagle.” COB “For Brave Macbeth, (for well he deserves that name), Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, (Like valor's minion), carved out his passage Till he faced the slave; Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, Till he unseamed him from the nave to the chops, And fix'd his head upon our battlements”. (Act I, scene ii, lines 16-24)
(Macbeth is a brave warrior)
“Yes, As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion”.
(Act I, scene ii, line 35)
(Connection of Macbeth to the COB)
Fearless [As] Bellona’s bridegroom (like the God of war) “The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict, Till that Bellona’s bridegroom, lapped in proof, Confronted him with self-comparisons, Point against point, rebellious arm ‘gainst arm, Curbing his lavish spirit; and to conclude The victory fell on us”.
(Act I, scene ii, lines 53-58)
Banquo [Post 3 Hails]”What, can the devil speak true?”
(Act I, scene iii, line 108)
(Referring to the witches prophecies)
Macbeth “Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme. –I thank you, gentlemen.-
(Aside) This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill; cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor. If good, 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? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smothered in surmise and nothing is But what is not….If chance will have