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1
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Lady Macbeth suicide

A

“Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen, - Who, as ‘tis thought, by self and violent hands took off her life.”

2
Q

Macbeth’s head on a pole

A

Behold, where stands th’usurper’s curséd head.

3
Q

Fight ‘til the end

A

Yet I will try the last.

4
Q

Caesarian section

A

Tell thee Macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped.

5
Q

Macbeth has already killed too many Macduff’s

A

my soul is to much charged with blood of thine already

6
Q

Macduff telling Macbeth to turn

A

Turn, hell-hound, turn!

7
Q

Macbeth is worse than the devil

A

The devil himself could not pronounce a title more hateful to mine ear

8
Q

Fight or flight

A

They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly, but,

bear-like, I must fight the course.

9
Q

Die honourably

A

Blow wind, come wrack, at least we’ll die with harness on our back.

10
Q

Witches double-meaning promises

A

To doubt th’equivocation of the fiend that lies like truth

11
Q

Macbeth on life

A

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 tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

12
Q

Lady Macbeth’s death pronounced

A

The queen, my lord, is dead.

13
Q

Macbeth’s title doesn’t fit him like clothes

A

Now does he feel his title hand loose about him, like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief.

14
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Lady Macbeth is afraid of blood

A

“Out, damned spot!”

15
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Lady Macbeth afraid of the dark

A

“Why, it stood by her: she has light by her continually, ‘tis her command.

16
Q

Lady Macbeth on Duncan

A

“Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?

17
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Lady Macbeth’s hands

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“will these hands ne’er be clean?”