Your favourite line from Macbeth?

md99

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alan4cult

The End

md99

alan4cult wrote:

The End

not in the text...

not even at the end of it.

Haven't a Clue

"I must take it like a man".

Nearly died laughing when the actor mumbled it out on stage. As did the other 5 schools in attendance. Poor fella.

Schlemm

the best bit is when Macduff's family are being murdered (or something like that) and the kid goes mad at the murderers and the murderer roars at the son 'What?
You egg!' and stabs him...

Marshy

alan4cult wrote:

The End

Lol, I second that! No, in all seriousness thats a tough one. I'd have to go with the "out, out, brief candle..." soliloquy. Thats a brilliant one.

Spank

Schlemm wrote:

the best bit is when Macduff's family are being murdered (or something like that) and the kid goes mad at the murderers and the murderer roars at the son 'What?
You egg!' and stabs him...

Lol

Mine is, is this a dagger I see before me? Mainly because of the Big Al's burger ad, Is this a burger I see before me?!

Mushy

What?
You egg!'

Yeah, thats fuuny, then the kid walks over to the mothr: "Mother, they have killed me"!

Dont know why I find it funny, but prob cos I saw it yesterday in the film and I remember it

tolosenc

I dunno, I stopped caring at "by William Shakespeare".

When Lady Macbeth says "unsex". She'd really need to head to Thailand for that.
"Be not like the flower, but rather be the serpent under't"
"All Great Neptune's Oceans..."
"Is this a dagger..."
That's all the quotes I know. Well, surely when he's killin Duncan he says something along the lines of :"Die b****. Mof***a, I'm da king now, aw yeah".

fonpokno

Schlemm wrote:

the best bit is when Macduff's family are being murdered (or something like that) and the kid goes mad at the murderers and the murderer roars at the son 'What?
You egg!' and stabs him...

ah thats a brilliant one! i remember when we learnt that scene... we all died laughing.. "you egg"... such strong words... we were only laughing to hide our disgust a old william's language...

Corruptedmorals

"Cream fac'd loon!"

"Liver of a blaspheming Jew"

Also the what, you egg one...but you forgot.."young fry of treachery!"

BFassassin

"Often times to win us to our harm the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, only to betray us in deepest consequence"

I just like it.

md99

'What, you egg!' is great, I found it hilarious the way the kid manages to say 'He hath killed me, mother' having just been stabbed in the back too...

Not to forget Banquo in the scene where he's murdered

'Give me a light, ho!'

open to misinterpretation!

fantacan

Yeah I'm afraid i gotta follow the trend by agreeing that the classic line is indeed:

"What! You egg" -

"Cream fac'd loon!" also gave me a total laugh attack when i first noticed it in the library the last day!

Nothing like Macbeth freaking out like a girl at the end tho:
"Arm! Arm and out!"

rorymcn

I'm afraid you're all missing the best quote (And one of the very few I know)

"The thane of Fife had a wife... Where is she now????"

My friends and I have laugh our tits off every time that comes up and we use it in every essay. Irregardless of what the essay's about.

dajaffa

"The instruments of darkness tell us truths
Only to betray us in deepest consequence"

Used in every Maccers answer I've ever done

Rozabeez

"Give me a light there, ho!" heh, you tell them bitches, you tell them.

Also, "Fly! False thanes, fly", 'cause I get this mental image of Macbeth throwing them from the top of his castle and demanding that they fly.

Or the classic, "He has killed me, mother" *child dies*

tolosenc

rorymcn wrote:

Irregardless

???

WildCardDoW

The child dieing is pretty, funny. (Eep that sounds bad!) Our teacher laughed aswell, we were watching the Polanski version, (thanks to a lack of plays being shown at the Civic theatre), and it just seemed that it was over the top. Of course the funniest bit in the Polanski film is all the naked witches, it's so stupid!

Rozabeez

Stupid AND disgusting, we watched that too, GROSS.

WildCardDoW

When you watch it a second time you just burst out laughing. Maybe it's just our class, it seems so over the top and ludicrous.

Rozabeez

Our second time we just sat there laughing etc. Are you in a mixed school?

WildCardDoW

Yeah, fairly split down the middle in our class in terms of boys and girls.

md99

Naked witches you say..

I've only seen the Ian McKellan/Judi Dench version, which I discovered to be a magnificent performance! How does Polanski's compare?

My favourite line is Macbeth's last line, while he's fighting Macduff, not sure if this is accurate,

"And damned be he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!'"

md99

fantacan wrote:

Yeah I'm afraid i gotta follow the trend by agreeing that the classic line is indeed:

"What! You egg" -

"Cream fac'd loon!" also gave me a total laugh attack when i first noticed it in the library the last day!

Nothing like Macbeth freaking out like a girl at the end tho:
"Arm! Arm and out!"

In the line of insults, we can't forget Macduff's kid,

"Thou liest, thou shag-haired villain!"

danniemcq

be but like the innocent flower but be the serpent underneath

or

yet do i fear thy heart is to full of the milk of human kindness

been years since i studied it but them two stick out and fit into most answers

genericgoon

I am in blood stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er

i like it and its always useful when writing about the play

Tingo

Double double toil and trouble.

It's a classic for a reason.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

WildCardDoW wrote:

The child dieing is pretty, funny. (Eep that sounds bad!) Our teacher laughed aswell, we were watching the Polanski version, (thanks to a lack of plays being shown at the Civic theatre), and it just seemed that it was over the top. Of course the funniest bit in the Polanski film is all the naked witches, it's so stupid!

I think you'll find that the funniest bit in that movie is the classic fight scene at the end between Macbeth and Macduff, which is preceded by your man getting the arrow in the forehead.

yurmothrintites

We went to see Macbeth a coule of weeks ago in a play
seriously.....................I have never laughed so hard!

Duncan was this old scottish fella who we actually couldn't understand! He had a really strong accent and A LISP!! Could you imagine!

The witches were all acting like lesbians! It was really disturbing!

And when Duncan died, the scottish guy came back as the doorman, and he was "acting" out his sexual yearnings!! I nearly got sick! Got off school though!

My favorite quote is "If thou durst do it, then you were a man" LM

ZorbaTehZ

All I remember from when I went to see Macbeth, was lots of knackers shouting and screaming like idiots. Same thing happened when we went to see Death Of A Salesman in the Town Hall, except the shouting was x2.
OnTopic, "By the pricking of my thumbs/Something wicked this way comes" IV i
I read the fantasy-book when I was really young, so it was wicked reading the lines from the play since I didn't know it was taken from it.

EDIT:typo

cabla

"unsex me"

JC 2K3

"Out out, brief candle, life is but a walking shadow, a poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then he is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Naikon

None, Shakespearian Literature doesent appeal to me in the slightest, in fact I believe its the most useless cack on the whole course.....besides poetry:)

Exar Khun

JC 2K3 wrote:

"Out out, brief candle, life is but a walking shadow, a poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then he is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Beat me to it. Ah the good ol' days, I mean back in school not the middle ages.

marco murphy

Naikon wrote:

None, Shakespearian Literature doesent appeal to me in the slightest, in fact I believe its the most useless cack on the whole course.....besides poetry:)

So true.

Marshy

"To alter favour ever is to fear"
"Be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck"
"To show an unfelt sorrow is an office..."
"My soul is too much charged with blood..."
All good quotes.

Hopkirk

"Nothing is but what is not".

sums up about everything...

Your Man

"How now you black and midnight hags!"

can also be used as a chat up line

md99

Your Man wrote:

"How now you black and midnight hags!"

lmao, totally forgot, I love that line

Sinfonia

Best bit was changing the characters names to make them dirty; SacBeth, SacBreath, Wanquo, MacMuff, Spuncan, the three bitches, the kids - Malcum and Analbain, etc. My god we were clever.

thebindles88

Definately "what, you egg"

without a doubt
yeah the polanski version is a "playboy" production, Hugh Hefner produced it, i know im gonna get some replies thinking i'm not serious but check it out

shylock daly

Steve01

thebindles88 wrote:

shylock daly

ROFL! Gotta write that one down

RandolphEsq

"By clock tis day, yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp"
Beautiful, pure perfection. I touch myself reading Shakespeare

ZorbaTehZ

I touch myself reading Shakespeare

mmkay. . .