Famous Qutoes From MacbethQuote: Fair is foul and foul is fair(1,1)Analysis: The opening scene establishes the play’s mood and one of its main themes: things are not as they seem , a theme evidenced by the false scene of security enjoyed by the play’s soon be killed characters.
Quote: Come, you spirits / that tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe top full / of direst cruelty; / make thick blood,/ stop up the access and passage to remorse,/ that no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose.(1, 6)Analysis:Lady Macbeth calls forth her unladylike qualities to buoy her desires to ride Scotland of Duncan and have her husband crowned king.
Quotes:By the pricking of my thumbs, / something wicked this way comes. (6,1)Analysis:when three witches chasing around a cauldron announce your arrival in this manner, you’re probably made a bad decision at some point in your life. This is exactly how the withes announce the coming of Macbeth. Something wicked this way comes is also the title of a novel by Ray Bradbury.
Quotes: And all our yesterdays have lighted fools/ the way to dust death. Out, out, brief candle! / Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player/ That struts and frets his hour upon the stage/ And then is heard no more: it is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/ signifying nothing. (5,5)Analysis:Macbeth describes life immediately after hearing about the death of lady Macbeth though the use of an extended metaphor. According to Macbeth life is a path leading to death, a brief candle, marked by the shadow of death, a bad actor who is heard from never again after leaving the stage, and a story teller who yes his meaningless tale. Not exactly the optimistic comparison you were hoping for? Keep in mind that his description of life comes from a man who has just lost his wife, who is guilty of murdering several people, and is under attack by an army of 10,00 men. you’d probably be depressed too.
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