Meaning: From all the murders he has committed, Macbeth has become accustomed to the act and can’t see himself stopping as it would be harder to return to the person he used to be.#8: I am in blood / Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o’er. Techniques: imagery, characterisation, fatal flaw.#7: Come, seeling night, / Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day / And with thy bloody and invisible hand / Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond / Which keeps me pale. He says to the murderers that they should decide for themselves whether they will do this. He insists on this being Fleance’s fate to prevent the second part of the witches’ prophecy from coming true, in which Banquo’s son becomes king. Meaning: Macbeth is telling the murderers that along with Banquo, they must also kill his son, Fleance.#6: Fleance, his son, that keeps him company, / Whose absence is no less material to me / Than is his father’s, must embrace the fate / Of that dark hour. #5: To be thus is nothing, / But to be safely thus. Techniques: Soliloquy, characterisation.Meaning: Macbeth finds it difficult to justify his intent to murder Duncan - it’s only his ambition to be powerful that is pushing him to commit the act, otherwise he has not other motivation or reason for harming Duncan in such a manner.#4: I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself / And falls on th’ other. Techniques: Characterisation, rhyming couplet.#3: Stars, hide your fires / Let not light see my black and deep desires. 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. If ill, / Why hath it given me earnest of success, / Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor. #2: This supernatural soliciting / Cannot be ill, cannot be good. Techniques: Characterisation, fatal flaw.
By Sinel’s death I know I am thane of Glamis. #1: Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more. Two key characters who are tied to ambition throughout the play are Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, which can be seen through the quotes below. Lady Macbeth, on the other hand, acts like a friend in crime, who always supports the evil desires of Macbeth.As you study Macbeth, you will come to see how different characters experience the feeling of ambition. He wants to keep his throne secure and thus plans another crime. Macbeth is not satisfied after getting the throne by killing King Duncan. The conversation between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth discloses the mental state of the couple. Macbeth reveals that he rather feels like dying than to live with this mental torture. The snake will heal with time and will be as good as new.
According to him, he has just crushed the snake, but not killed it yet.
Lady macbeth quotes full#
Macbeth appears full of anxiety partly because of his evil deed of murdering the King and partly because of his sense of fear, that Banquo will be the father of a line of Kings. What is already done, can’t be undone and it’s stupidity to think about it. Those sad thoughts should have died with the death of the person whom he is thinking about.
Lady Macbeth asks Macbeth, why he is keeping himself alone and having sad thoughts as his only friend. With them they think on? Things without all remedy Using those thoughts which should indeed have died Of sorriest fancies your companions making, Lady Macbeth speaks to her husband and tries to support and strengthen him. It is better to be the person who got murdered than to be the person who murders and lives in anxiety throughout his life. According to Lady Macbeth, if you get the thing you want and still you are not happy, then you are the person who spent everything and gained nothing. In the scene, Lady Macbeth is trying to strengthen up the Macbeth, who appears confused and shocked by the evil deeds done by him. The Macbeth Quote “ What’s done is done” from ACT III, Scene II is said by Lady Macbeth to her husband.
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