A Brief Journey through the Quotes of Shakespeare's Macbeth

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During our oldest son's sophomore year of homeschooled high school, he read William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. We had the chance to review Shakespeare's Tragedies from Hewitt Homeschooling Resources. This resource examines four tragedies of Shakespeare and several sonnets: 

• Julius Caesar
• Hamlet
• Macbeth
• King Lear 
• and several sonnets (5, 6, 18, 29, 30, 65, 73, and 97)

We read Julius Caesar using this paperback book as our resource for questions and lessons. Originally, I had planned on asking our son to read Hamlet during his junior year, but we spent the year reading works by Tolkien using a wonderful course at SchoolhouseTeachers.com. I do hope to read Hamlet with him this year, but he has already read Macbeth as part of his British Literature course. 

A good place to start prior to reading Shakespeare is with the famous quotes from the plays and references in other works of entertainment. From the witches trying to bring about confusion to order finally being restored at the end of the play when English customs are introduced with the crowning of Malcolm, there are many famous quotes and memorable lines from Shakespeare's Macbeth.   

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair.

Hover through the fog and filthy air." 

All the witches from Act I Scene I 

"This supernatural soliciting, 

Cannot be ill, cannot be good" 

Macbeth from Act I Scene III

"If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well

It were done quickly." 

Macbeth from Act I Scene VII

"What's done is done." 

Lady Macbeth from Act III Scene II 

"Out, damned spot! Out, I say!" 

Lady Macbeth from Act V Scene I 

"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." 

Macbeth from Act V Scene V 

Do you have a favorite Shakespeare play?