English Essay Macbeth Quotes PDF

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Topic/ Theme: Fate and Freewill 1. I.iii, l.142 (MACBETH) ● If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me without my stir. ● Thoughts: Macbeth is saying that if he’s going to become king, he will become king without doing something to influence the outcome, or in other words having to kill the king. 2. I.iii, l. 52-55 (BANQUO) ● Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner/ You greet with present grace and great prediction/ Of noble having and of royal hope?/ That he seems rapt withal to me you speak not./ ● Thoughts: Banquo questions the witches as they greet the two with their future, their fates. 3. I.iii, l.75-76 (MACBETH) ● Upon this blasted heath you stop our way/ With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you ● Thoughts: Macbeth is now intrigued and becomes suspicious of the prophecies the three witches have said. So he demands an explanation 4. II.iii, l.117-120 (DONALBAIN) ● What should be spoken here,/ Where our fate hid in an auger hole may rush/ And seize us let’s away ● Thoughts: Donalbain is speechless and scared that fate could come out of nowhere to kill both of them, just like their father. So, they say they’ll run to safety. 5. II.iii, l. 134-137 (DONALBAIN) ● To Ireland, I. Our separated fortune/ Shall keep us both the safer. Where we are./ There's daggers in men’s smiles; the nea’er in blood,/ The nearer bloody. ● Thoughts: Donalbain is paranoid and wants to leave to Ireland, saying the farther away from the scene the safer it is. Their destiny won’t be complete if they’re not together as no one can reach them, so they cannot die from the

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6. III.i, l. 71-73 (MACBETH) ● To make them kings, the seeds of Banquo’s kings./ Rather then so, come fate into the list/ And champion me to th’utterance ● Thoughts: Macbeth wants to fight fate so Banquo’s children don’t become kings. 7. IV.i, l. 81-83 (MACBETH) ● Then live, Macduff, what need I fear for thee?/ But yet I’ll make assurance double sure/ And take a bond of fate:... ● Thoughts: Since no one including Macduff is born of women, he shouldn’t be scared. Yet he still exclaims that he will kill him to keep/ make sure fate is within his hands. He’ll steer fate. 8. V.vii, l. 22-24 (MACDUFF) ● By this great clatter, one of the greatest note/ Seems bruited. Let me find him, Fortune,/ And more beg not ● Thoughts: Destiny will lead Macduff to Macbeth and will let Macduff challenge him. That’s all that he asked fortune for....