Macbeth
Quote Review: Act I
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Directions: First, identify who said each quote. Then, explain what the quote means.
1) “Fair is foul, and foul is fair”
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2) “So foul and fair a day I have not seen”
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3) “Nothing in his life / Became him like the leaving it”
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4) “Yet I do fear they nature; / It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness”
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5) “Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here”
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6) “Look like th’ innocent flower, / But be the serpent under ‘t”
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7) “If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well/ It were done quickly”
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Macbeth
Quote Review: Act II
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Directions: First, identify who said each quote. Then, explain what the quote means.
1) “Is this a dagger which I see before me, / The handle toward my hand?”
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2) “Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell / That summons thee to heaven or to hell”
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3) “'Sleep no more! / Macbeth does murder sleep!' the innocent sleep, / Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care”
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4) “Had he not resembled / My father as he slept I had done't”
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5) “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?”
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6) “There’s daggers in men's smiles”
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7) “Here's a knocking, indeed! If a man were porter of hell-gate he should have old turning the key. Knock, knock,
knock! Who's there, i' the name of Beelzebub? Here's a farmer that hanged himself on the expectation of plenty”
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8) “A falcon, towering in her pride of place, / Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed”
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Macbeth
Quote Review: Act III
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Directions: First, identify who said each quote. Then, explain what the quote means.
1) “Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, / As the weird women promised; and, I fear, / Thou play'dst most foully for't”
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2) “Naught’s had, all’s spent, / Where our desire is got without consent”
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3) “We have scorched the snake, not killed it”
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4) “Duncan is in his grave. / After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well”
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5) “Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill”
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6) “…I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in / To saucy doubts and fears”
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7) “Thou canst not say I did it; never shake / Thy gory locks at me”
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8) “It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood”
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9) “I am in blood / Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er”
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Quote Review: Act IV
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Directions: First, identify who said each quote. Then, explain what the quote means.
1) “Double, double toil and trouble; / Fire burn, and cauldron bubble”
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2) “By the pricking of my thumbs, / Something wicked this way comes”
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3) “Macbeth shall never vanquished be until / Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill /Shall come against him”
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4) “But yet I’ll make assurance double sure / And take a bond of fate. Thou shalt not live”
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5) “Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell”
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6) “Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak / Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break”
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7) “What, all my pretty chickens and their dam / At one fell swoop?”
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Macbeth
Quote Review: Act V
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Directions: First, identify who said each quote. Then, explain what the quote means.
1) “Out, damned spot! out, I say!”
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2) “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”
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3) “What’s done cannot be undone”
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4) “I have lived long enough: my way of life / Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf; / And that which should accompany
old age, / As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but in their stead / Curses”
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5) “Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, / Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow”
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6) “I have supped full with horrors”
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7) “To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, / Creeps in this petty pace from day to day / To the last syllable of
recorded time, / And all our yesterdays have lighted fools / The way to dusty 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”
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8) “I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, / And wish the estate o' the world were now undone”
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9) “Lay on, Macduff, / And damned be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!”
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