"It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.  - (Angry, nihilistic) Macbeth 5.5.16-27, "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?"  - (Scared) Macbeth 2.2.55-61, "All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!" - (Crazy) Lady Macbeth 5.1.53, "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."  - Witches about to see... ? 4.1.44-45, "Fair is foul and foul is fair." - Chiasmus by the disordering Witches 1.1.12-13, "Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here," - ('Manly') Lady Macbeth 1.5.41-4, "... look like th'innocent flower, But be the serpent under't." - (Cunning, Deceptive) Lady Macbeth 1.5.41-4, "... now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe Upon a dwarfish thief." - Angus' hang loose quote 5.3.23-5, "In thunder, lightning or in rain?" - (Pathetic Fallacy / Weather Symbolism) Witches 1.1.2, "A little water clears us of this deed." - (Bold, yet foolish) Lady Macbeth 2.2.88, "’Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy." - Lady Macbeth realising that only the dead are safe 2.3, "O, full of scorpions is my mind!" and "Better be with the dead..." - Macbeth, paranoid and restless in 3.2.40 and 3.2.22 , Not in the legions Of horrid hell can come a devil more damned In evils to top Macbeth. - Macduff on Macbeth 4.3.66, Dispute it like a man. / I shall do so, But I must also feel it as a man. - Malcom and Macduff discuss manhood Act 4 sc3 260,

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