Macbeth classroom posters

A pdf of classroom posters focusing on key quotations from ‘Macbeth’.

The Witches

• “Fair is foul, and foul is fair.” (Act 1, Scene 1)
• “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” (Act 4, Scene 1)

Banquo

• “Merciful powers, restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature gives way to in repose!” (Act 2, Scene 1)
• “Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, as the weird women promised, and I fear thou play’dst most foully for’t.” (Act 3, Scene 1)

Lady Macbeth

• “Come, you spirits… unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty!” (Act 1, Scene 5)
• “Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t.” (Act 1, Scene 5)
• “Out, damned spot! Out, I say!” (Act 5, Scene 1)

Macbeth

• “Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?” (Act 2, Scene 1)
• “O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!” (Act 3, Scene 2)
• “Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires.” (Act 1, Scene 4)
• “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 a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” (Act 5, Scene 5)

Macduff

• “Turn, hell-hound, turn!”
• “I have no words: my voice is in my sword; thou bloodier villain than terms can give thee out!” (Act 5, Scene 8)
• “O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee!” (Act 2, Scene 3)

Malcolm

• “This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues.” (Act 4, Scene 3)
• “Producing forth the cruel ministers of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen, who, as ’tis thought, by self and violent hands took off her life.” (Act 5, Scene 9)

Captain

• “Till he unseam’d him from the nave to the chops, and fix’d his head upon our battlements.” (Act 1, Scene 2)

Duncan

• “Go pronounce his present death, and with his former title greet Macbeth.” (Act 1, Scene 2)

Macbeth (about Duncan)

• “Besides, this Duncan hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been so clear in his great office, that his virtues will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against the deep damnation of his taking-off.” (Act 1, Scene 7)