Macbeth Key Quotations Explained

Click on the button above to download ten quotations from Macbeth that are explained using the What-How-Why model of analysis. The resource can be used as a poster (i.e. with each page being enlarged to A3) or as the basis for revision material.

Here’s a snip of a few examples ⤵️

Here’s a list of the ten quotations I’ve used:

1. Stars, hide your fires, / Let not light see my black and deep desires
2. Yet do I fear thy nature, / It is too full o’th’milk of human kindness
3. look like th’innocent flower, / But be the serpent under’t
4. My hands are of your colour, but I shame / To wear a heart so white
5. Here lay Duncan, / His silver skin lac’d with this golden blood
6. Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown / And put a barren sceptre in my grip
7. There the grown serpent lies; the worm that’s fled / Hath nature that in time will venom breed
8. O hell-kite! All? / What all my pretty chickens?
9. Here’s the smell of blood still; all the perfumes of / Arabia will not sweeten this little hand
10. Producing forth the cruel ministers / Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen

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Hope it’s useful –

Doug

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