Act 1

Weather/Nature:

Scene 1 : Thunder and lightning. Enter three witches.

Scene 6: «The guest of summer … I have observed, the air is delicate.»

Scene 4 : Lady Macbeth : ‘’The raven himself is hoarse,that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements.’’

Blood:

Scene 2: Duncan: «What bloody man is that»

Sergeant: : «Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel, which smoked with bloody execution, like valor’s minion carved out his passage.

Lady Macbeth : ‘’Make thick my blood, stop up th’ access and passage to remorse, that no compunctions visitings of nature shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between th’ effect and it! ... ‘’

Prophecy:

Scene 1 : Second Witch : ‘’When the hurlyburly’s done, when the battle is lost and won.’’ (Macbeth’s fight that seemed like he’d lose but he won)

Scene 3 : Witches to Macbeth: «Hail to thee thane of Glamis/Cawdor and King hereafter»

Witches to Banquo: «Lesser then Macbeth, and greater. Not so happy, yet much happier. Thou shalt get kings though thou be none.»

Violence:

Scene 7: Macbeth: «If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well. It were done quickly. If th’ assassination..»

Scene 4: Duncan: « Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not those in commission yet returned?»

Dead Children

Scene 7: Lady Macbeth «(...)how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me: i would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, and dashed the brains out, had I sworn as you done to this.»

Ambition :

Scene 3 : Macbeth : ‘’Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor : The greatest is behind.’’

Scene 6: Macbeth: To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition,  which o'erleaps itself

And falls on the other.

Gender roles:

scene 7: «(...) when you durst do it, then you were a man; and to be more then what you were, you would be so much more than a man(...)» -Lady Macbeth

Appearance vs reality :

Scene 6 : Lady Macbeth ‘’... Your Majesty loads our house ...’’ (she’s being all nice and ladycool to Duncan but is really a bad person)