MACBETH 10 KEY QUOTES.

We know that learning and analysing key quotes is a vital of preparing for the GCSE English Literature exam.

These quotes cover a range of literary devices, themes and characters, meaning you’ll be prepared no matter what question you get in your exam.

Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under’t.

Act I, scene 5

I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition,

Act I, scene 7

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Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness

Act I, scene 5

Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?

Act II, scene 3

Here lay Duncan, his silver skin laced with his golden blood, and his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature for ruin’s wasteful entrance.

Act II, scene 3

But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in to saucy doubts and fears.

Act III scene 4

O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!

Act III, scene 2

I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds.

Act IV, scene 3

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.

Act V, scene 5

I bear a charmèd life

Act V, scene 8

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