Unlocking Themes in Macbeth

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Appearances do not always reflect reality.

“Our separated fortune shall keep us both the safer. Where we are, there’s in men’s smiles; the near in blood, the nearer bloody.”

Act II, Scene 3

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Despite prophecies of the future, people are responsible for their own actions.

“If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear your favors nor your hate.”

Act I, Scene 3

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Despite prophecies of the future, people are responsible for their own actions.

“I pull in resolution, and begin to doubt the equivocation of the fiend, that lies like truth.”

Act V, Scene 5

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Attempts to control the future by overturning the natural order of society are futile.

“Duncan is in his grave; after life’s fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst: nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, can touch him further.”

Act III, Scene2

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Attempts to control the future by overturning the natural order of society are futile.

“Here’s the smell of blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh,oh,oh!”

Act V, Scene 1