Important Quotes From Macbeth

Lady Macbeth: The night is still young yet… What am I doing on the freezing wooden floor? My feet are beginning to grow weary with calluses. Macbeth’s face will retreat if he were to see such a sight. I must return to my bedroom at once, or else my husband will not accept such farce if he were to catch me in this dimmed, lonely chamber.

"be bloody, bold, and resolute, laugh to scorn. The power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth"

“There is not much I can do to help you. Unless…” Macbeth pauses to think, “We could throw suspicion onto someone else like the slave that was tenting to the King that night.”

Macbeth why did you listen to your snake tongued wife whose words

Lady Macbeth received sympathy from the gentlewoman. She was grieving and she said, “I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the dignity of the whole

Macbeth, sympathizing himself, admits,”I’ve almost forgotten what fear feels like... / Horrible things are so familiar that they can’t startle me”(5.5.10-15). Macbeth recognizes his own downfall during his time of reign, expecting the worst to happen. When receiving news that his wife has killed herself, he state,“To the last syllable of recorded time/ And all our yesterdays have lighted fools/ The way to dusty death” (V.v.20-26).

Macbeth does not only harm those who have been prophesied to get in his way but those who suspect him as well. When he finds out that Macduff has fled to England to speak with Malcolm, Macbeth begins to fear that he will be exposed for being responsible about the deaths of Banquo and King Duncan. To show that he has so much power already Macbeth orders for Macduff’s family to be killed. He believes that the power he has built for himself can never be taken away from him because it is his fate to be in control of Scotland. These ambitions he has however, end up being the cause for his death and loss of

War is upon Scotland, death is creeping toward Macbeth at every second, and Macbeth has lost his wife. As you can probably tell Macbeth is losing his grip on his power. He fought, bled, and killed for the throne he now sits on, but his power has not lasted long. The very genesis of Macbeth's power, Lady Macbeth, has just died, but it seems that Macbeth does not even give it a thought. It is almost as if he was expecting it.

As stand drops to the floor, the Lady debates whether she should just end it all, the guilt, the pain and the suffering that I have caused myself. She thinks how no one will miss her monstrous soul like the nation had missed the man who resembled her father. Suddenly the middle aged woman’s eyes grows bright. Without any care, she grasps one of the sharp, broken glass, gripping it tightly in between her fingers and fiercely glided the weapon against the bottom of her hand. Each rough motion of her hands brought her closer and closer at peace with herself. Soon enough, Lady Macbeth falls to the floor, never have to fret about the blood from on her hands. Like a fly caught in a spider’s web, she faced her fate in her own web of destruction. What's done cannot be

The ceremony seemed as if it were going to be elegant and pleasing. There were an equal number of thanes on each side of the table. The king presented himself honorably as he sat down with the rest of us to “play the humble host” and announced that Lady Macbeth would keep her state. However not long after that things began to get strange. A dirt and bloody man

Lady Macbeth demonstrates the concept of appearance versus reality while using the motif of sleep and blood. “In her normal, walking state, repression and an assumed bravery are marked. In the sleeping or somnambulistic state, the repression gives way to free expression and her innate cowardice becomes dominant. In her walking condition, she shows no fear of blood, but shrinks from it when in a state of somnambulism.” (Coriat 3). Coriat psychoanalyzes Lady Macbeth’s sleeping patterns, and explains why Lady Macbeth falls apart while she sleeps. For

Macbeth states “ I’ll go no more. I am afraid to think what I h

Lady Macbeth: Good greetings, husband. What bestowed upon you the idea to conference now? When I am in my night dress and appear as pale as a sheet(simile)? It is obscene!

Lady Macbeth: Guards stand alert at your door and I shall lie by your side. No harm shall be bestowed upon yourself in slumber. Rest now my lord and worry later.

Lady Macbeth tells her husband, "When Duncan is asleep, his two chamberlains Will I with wine and wassail, so convince", "When in swinish sleep Their drenched natures lie, as in a death, What cannot you and I perform upon The unguarded Duncan?" Macbeth is in struggle with his conscience but is goaded by Lady Macbeth to proceed with the murder when she questions his manhood. Macbeth's image of himself forces him to reply, "I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none"