Violence

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“Unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full / Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood.Stop up th’ access and passage to remorse.”

Lady Macbeth

Act 1, Scene 5

“Is this a dagger which I see before me, / The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: / I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.”

Macbeth

Act 2, Scene 1

“I had laid their daggers ready; / He could not miss ’em. Had he not resembled / My fater as he slept, I had done’t.”

Lady Macbeth

Act 2, Scene 2

“Here lay Duncan, / His silver skin laced with his golden blood, / And his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature.”

Macbeth

Act 2, Scene 3

“Tis unnatural, / Even like the deed that’s done. On Tuesday last, / A falcon [...] Was by a mousing owl hawk’d at, and kill’d.”

Old Man

Act 2, Scene 4

“O horror, horror, horror! / Tonge nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee!”

Macduff

Act 2, Scene 4

“Blood will have blood”

Macbeth

Act 3, Scene 4

“I am in blood Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er.”

Macbeth

Act 3, Scene 4

“From this moment / The very firstlings of my heart shall be / The firstlings of my hand. And even now, / To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done”

Macbeth

Act 4, Scene 1

“The castle of Macduff I will surprise, / Seize upon Fife, give to th’ edge o’ th’ sword / His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls / That trace him in his line.”

Macbeth

Act 4, Scene 1

“What, all my pretty chickens, and their dam, / At one fell swoop?”

Macduff

Act 4, Scene 3

“Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.”

Macduff

Act 5, Scene 6