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Macbeth: “Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.”

M’s character changes a great deal over the course of the play. At the
beginning of the play, Macbeth is a respected knight who has shown great
loyalty to King Duncan.
Soon after, Macbeth succumbs to ambition and, encouraged by a
prophecy and Lady Macbeth, murders King Duncan to take his throne. This
betrayal throws Macbeth into a state of guilt and fear, prompting him to
murder again and again to satisfy his paranoia. By the end of the play, he
has become an evil tyrant and is rightfully deposed and killed for his
crimes.

Lady Macbeth - Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done't.

(2.2.12-13)
If the King did not look like my father as he slept, then I would have done it.

Lady Macbeth - These deeds must not be thought after these ways; so it
will make us mad. (2.2.37)
If we think about what we have done, it'll make us crazy.

Macbeth - Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my
hand? No: this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine,
making the green one red. (2.2.63-66)
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, my hand would rather make
red the seas then, making the green ones red.

Malcolm - Why do we hold out tongues, that most may claim This
argument for ours? (2.3.116-117)
Why do we not talk, that most may claim we did it?

Donaldbain - There's daggers in men's smiles; the nea'er in blood, The

nearer bloody. (2.3.135-136)
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There are daggers in men's smiles, the closer they are related, the more likely they are to be killed.

Old Man - God's benison go with you, and with those That would make
good of bad, and friends of foe. (2.4.40-41)
May God's blessing go with you, and with that would make good of bad, and friends of foe.

Macduff - Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.

Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope the lord's anointed temple and
stole thence the life the life o'th' building. (2.3.65-69)

Donalbain - To Ireland, I. Our seperate fortune shall keep us both the

safer. Where we are there's daggers in men's smiles. The nea'er in blood,
the nearer bloody. (2.3.137-140)
I'm going to Ireland. Our seperate money shall keep us safe. There are murderers here who act friendly.
The closer they are to us, the more likely they are to be killed

Macbeth - Had I but died an hour before this chance I had lived a blessed
time, for from this instant there's nothing serious in mortality. (2.3.90-93)
Had I but died an hour before this incident, i had lived during a good era. Life will be terrible from now
on.

Ross - 'Gainst nature still. Thriftless ambition, that will raven up Thine own
life's means! Then 'tis most like the sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth.
(2.4.27-30)
Against nature still. murderous ambition, that will remove me from royalty. Then Macbeth will most
likely be king.

Banquo - So I lose none in seeking to augment it, but still keep my bosom
franchised and allegiance clear, I shall be counselled. (2.1.25-29)
I quite enjoy the idea of this dream, but my allegiance and loyalty is still with the king, I will stop thinking
about it.

Banquo - There's Husbandry in heaven, their candles are all out. Take thee
that, too. A heavy summons lies like a lead upon me, and yet i would not
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sleep. Merciful powers, restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature

gives way to in repose. (2.1.5-9)
Macbeth - Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight? Or art
thou a but a dagger of the mind, a false creation proceeding from the
heat-oppressed brain? (2.1.35-40)
Is it not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight? Or is it but a dagger of the mind, a false creation
coming from the stressed out brain?

Banquo - Fears and scruples shake us. In the great hand of God I stand,
and thence against the undivulged pretence i fight of treasonous malice.
(2.3.127-130)
Fear and unease shakes us. In the great hand of God I stand, against the unknown culprit I fight of
treasonous murder.