Quote 1: “We will proceed no further in this business. He hath honored me of late, and I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people, Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon.” Act 1 Scene 7 Macbeth. In this quote Macbeth is saying he doesn’t want to kill the king as he has just honoured him and he wants to enjoy the titles he has just received. Macbeth is showing reluctance to kill the king.
Quote 2: “I am settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show. False face must hide what the false heart doth know” Act 1 scene 7 Macbeth here is saying that he will now go through with killing king Duncan he is now agreeing and listening to his wife that has now convinced him to kill the king.
quote 3: “Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw. Thou marshall’st me the way that I was going, And such an instrument I was to use.” Act 2 scene 1 Here Macbeth is acting as if he can see a dagger however he is not sure if this is a hallucination or if the dagger is real. This quote shows that Macbeth has mentally prepared himself to kill the king as he says the dagger will take him to the King
Quote 4: “Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme. I thank you, gentlemen. This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor. If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.” Act 1 scene 3. After Macbeth sees the witches and they tell him his fate one of the prophecies come true he now thane of Cawdor, they also said he will become king. Macbeth here believes the witches and can now see himself killing king Duncan.
quote 5: “The prince of Cumberland! That is a step On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.” Act 1 scene 4 Macbeth here is talking about how he must become king by killing Duncan however he does not want god or other people to see. He also feels as if he can’t picture himself doing it.
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