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O treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!
Thou may ’st revenge —O slave! (Banquo, Scene 3)
Oh, this is horrible! Get out of here, good Fleance, run, run, run! Someday you can get revenge for me.
A remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play.***
If you were to write a paper discussing how Macbeth is a tragedy, you could use this quote and reasoning to back up your point.***
"As the weird women promised, and I fear
Thou played’st most foully for ’t." (Banquo, Scene 1)
Just like the weird women promised you, I suspect you cheated or did something wrong to win these titles.
"'Tis better thee without than he within.
Is he dispatched?"***
The act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of anyone around.***
If you were to write a paper discussing how Macbeth revolves around ambition, you could use this quote and reasoning to back up your point.***
"To be thus is nothing,
But to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo
Stick deep" (Macbeth, Scene 1)
To be the King is nothing if I’m not safe as the King. I’m very afraid of Banquo.
Which Witch is in charge?***
"My royal lord,
You do not give the cheer."***
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.***
If you were to write a paper discussing how Macbeth deals with appearance, you could use this quote and reasoning to back up your point.***
"There the grown serpent lies. The worm that’s fled
Hath nature that in time will venom breed;
No teeth for th' present." (Macbeth, Scene 4)
The adult snake lies in the ditch. The young snake that escaped will in time become poisonous and threatening, but for now, he has no fangs.
Who sends the guests away at the dinner party, and makes excuses for Macbeth, when the ghost of Banquo appears?***
"We have scorched the snake, not killed it."***
The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.***
If you were to write a paper discussing how Macbeth deals with masculinity, you could use this quote and reasoning to back up your point.***
"Naught’s had, all’s spent,
Where our desire is got without content.
'Tis safer to be that which we destroy
Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy." (Lady Macbeth, Scene 2)
If you get what you want and you’re still not happy, you’ve spent everything and gained nothing. It’s better to be the person who gets murdered than to be the killer and be tormented by anxiety.
"And you all know, security
Is mortals' chiefest enemy."***
Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.***
If you were to write a paper discussing how Macbeth deals with loyalty, you could use this quote and reasoning to back up your point.***