I found out that Macbeth is an equivocator as it says in act 1 scene 7 ‘I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself and falls on th’other’ He explains that he has no confidence to kill Duncan apart from his own ambition to be king. William Shakespeare uses a metaphor and implies that he is saying his intent is a horse by saying ‘I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent.’ The which is in him is his motivation as he cannot spur his horse on
Author: Benjamin
5 Quotes from Macbeth
“Your children shall be kings”
Macbeth is expected to be king of Scotland, and that Banquo’s sons will be kings. This can create conflict.
“Whence is that knocking?
How is ’t with me when every noise appeals me?”
After killing Duncan, Macbeth regrets killing him. He gets to crazy to the point were he thinks God is knocking on the paces door.
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather”
Macbeth is saying that even the ocean can wash away his sins as he killed Duncan and has left him guilt.
(aside) “If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me without my stir.”
Macbeth says here that his confidence raises because he states that if the witches want him to be king, then he is open for it.
“Stars, hide your fires!
Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
Macbeth has the King’s position in his eye sight. Which makes Macbeth in isolation. Therefore he speaks to Lady Macbeth (his wife) which persuades a sinful thought locked into his mind which is to take Duncan’s life away.
But ’tis strange
But it is strange
And often times , to win is to our harm,
Often, in order to do us harm
The instruments of darkness tells us truths
The witches tell us the truth about
Win us with honest trifles, to betrays
matters of small importance, and then
In deepest consequence.
betray us in relation to something of importance
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