"If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, / Without my stir." (Act 1, Scene 3) - Demonstrates Macbeth's initial hesitation and his reliance on fate., "Stars, hide your fires; / Let not light see my black and deep desires." (Act 1, Scene 4) - Reveals Macbeth’s ambition and his desire to conceal his dark thoughts., "Is this a dagger which I see before me, / The handle toward my hand?" (Act 2, Scene 1) - Reflects Macbeth’s internal conflict and descent into madness., "I am in blood / Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er." (Act 3, Scene 4) - Shows Macbeth’s realisation of the point of no return in his violent path., "Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?" (Act 2, Scene 2) - Symbolises Macbeth’s guilt and inability to escape his crimes., "What’s done is done." (Act 3, Scene 2) - Reflects Macbeth’s attempt to rationalise and suppress guilt., "O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!" (Act 3, Scene 2) - Highlights Macbeth's restless paranoia and growing instability., "Out, out, brief candle! / Life’s but a walking shadow..." (Act 5, Scene 5) - Reveals Macbeth’s nihilism and despair near the end of the play., "I bear a charmed life, which must not yield / To one of woman born." (Act 5, Scene 8) - Demonstrates Macbeth’s overconfidence based on the witches’ prophecies., "Lay on, Macduff; / And damn’d be him that first cries, ‘Hold, enough!’" (Act 5, Scene 8) - Shows Macbeth’s defiance and determination, even in the face of inevitable defeat.,

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