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Quoting in the Macbeth

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 Today’s Tutorial

Rules about Notes on Examples of Quoting

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Rules About
Quoting
Quotaion marks

Use quotation marks Linverted commas.

when you quote Lsingle L‘ ’. or double L“
”., but be consistent.
Quotatio Right:
On seeing Banquo’s ghost, Macbeth
exclaims: “Thou canst not say I did it ”

Marks or

n To
‘Thou canst not say I did it ’ ✓

Wrong:
or quo On seeing Banquo’s ghost, Macbeth
no t e exclaims, Thou canst not say I did it ✗
qu tt On seeing Banquo’s ghost, Macbeth
ot o
e exclaims: Thou canst not say I did it ✗
On seeing Banquo’s ghost, Macbeth exclaims
Thou canst not say I did it ✗
Quotation
Incorporation
Incorporate your
quotation into a full
Quotation Right:
Macbeth denies that he is guilty of
incorporatio Banquo’s murder by saying: “Thou canst
not say I did it ” ✓

n T Wrong:
o
or quo Macbeth denies that he is guilty of
no t e Banquo’s murder “Thou canst not say I did
qu tt
ot o it” ✗
e Macbeth denies that he is guilty of
Banquo’s murder “Thou canst not say I did
it” ✗
Macbeth denies that he is guilty of
Banquo’s murder L“Thou canst not say I
did it”. ✗
 Using
Square
brackets
Your quotation must suit the tense and grammar of
your sentence If it does not, reconsider what to quote,
or change your quotation, putting your change into
square brackets
 for
example
Remember, your quotation must suit the tense and grammar
of your sentence If it does not, reconsider what to quote, or
Then you might make a
change your quotation, putting your change into square
brackets
statement such as:
After arranging the murder of
E g if the text reads:
Banquo, Macbeth plans to
Macbeth: Our self will mingle with
spend his evening “[mingling]
society and play the humble host;
with
our hostess keeps her state,
society, and [playing] the
but in best time we will require humble host”
her welcome. To use square brackets or not to use
square brackets
 for
example
Remember, your quotation must suit the tense and grammar
of your sentence If it does not, reconsider what to quote, or
Right:
change your quotation, putting your change into square
brackets
Macbeth says that the murderers
should mask “the business from
Wrong: the common eye” ✓
Macbeth says that the Macbeth says that the
murderers should “masking murderers should “[mask]
the business from the common the business from the
common eye” ✓
eye” ✗
To use square brackets or not to use square brackets
 for
example
Combine your sentence and your quotation in Right:
such a way that your use of pronouns still makes aady Macbeth says to her husband:
sense
“This is the very painting of your
Wrong:
fear ” ✓
aady Macbeth says to
aady Macbeth says that the ghost
Macbeth that the ghost is
is “the very painting of
“the very painting of your [Macbeth’s] fear” ✓
fear” ✗ To use square brackets or not to use square brackets
 Quoting
Poetry
When you quote poetry, show the
division between diferent lines
using a forward slash L / .
 When you quote poetry, show the division

Quotin
between diferent lines using a forward slash

Poetry Right:
The speaker emphasises both the soundlessness
and the holiness of the evening in a simile

g To
comparing it to “a Nun / Breathless with
adoration” ✓

or quo Wrong:
no t e The speaker emphasises both the soundlessness
qu tt and the holiness of the evening in a simile
ot o
e comparing it to “a Nun Breathless with
adoration” ✗
The speaker emphasises both the soundlessness
and the holiness of the evening in a simile
comparing it to “a Nun breathless with
adoration” ✗
 Using
Ellipsis
If you want to leave out part of a quotation, use three periods L…. to show where you have
left something out

You should only do this if

• the sentences still make sense when that part of the quote is left out,
• and the part that is left out is not essential to the point you are making
 for
example
If you want to leave out part of a quotation, use
three periods L…. to show where you have left
something out You should only do this if
Macbeth remarks that “Duncan is in his
grave After life’s ftful fever, he sleeps
well; Treason has done his worst; nor
steel nor poison, Malice domestic,
foreign levy, nothing can touch him
further ” ✓

• the sentences still make sense when that part
of the quote is left out,
• and the part that is left out is not essential to
Macbeth remarks that “Duncan is in his
grave L…. he sleeps well; L…. nothing
can touch him further ” ✓
To use ellipsis or not to use ellipsis

the point you are making

Examples
of
quoting
 Examples of quoting #1

From Macbeth: From a student essay:

Act III, Scene I, aines 11-20
Lady Macbeth says to her husband
11. Macbeth: Here’s our chief guest.
that, if Banquo had not come to
12. Lady Macbeth: If he had been forgotten,
13. It had been a gap in our great feast the feast, it would have “been a
14. And all thing unbecoming. gap in our great feast / And all
15. Macbeth: Tonight we hold a solemn supper, sir,
16. And I’ll request your presence. thing unbecoming.” Macbeth then
17. Banquo: Let your highness also emphasises that he will
18. Command upon me, to the which my duties
“request your presence” at the
19. Are with a most indissolluble tie
20. Forever knit. feast.
 Examples of quoting #1

From Macbeth: From a student essay:

Act III, Scene I, aines 11-20
Lady Macbeth says to her husband
11. Macbeth: Here’s our chief guest.
that, if Banquo had not come to
12. Lady Macbeth: If he had been forgotten,
13. It had been a gap in our great feast the feast, it would have “been a
14. And all thing unbecoming. gap in our great feast / And all
15. Macbeth: Tonight we hold a solemn supper, sir,
16. And I’ll request your presence.
thing unbecoming.” Ll ?. Macbeth
17. Banquo: Let your highness then also emphasises that he will
18. Command upon me, to the which my duties
“request your presence” Ll ?. at
19. Are with a most indissolluble tie
20. Forever knit. the feast.
 Examples of quoting #1

From Macbeth: From a student essay:

Act III, Scene I, aines 11-20
Lady Macbeth says to her husband
11. Macbeth: Here’s our chief guest.
that, if Banquo had not come to the
12. Lady Macbeth: If he had been forgotten,
13. It had been a gap in our great feast feast, it would have “been a gap in
14. And all thing unbecoming. [their] great feast / And all thing
15. Macbeth: Tonight we hold a solemn supper, sir,
unbecoming.” Lll 13-14. Macbeth
16. And I’ll request your presence.
17. Banquo: Let your highness then also emphasises that he will
18. Command upon me, to the which my duties “request [his/Banquo‘s] presence”
19. Are with a most indissolluble tie
Ll 16. at the feast.
20. Forever knit.
 Rewrite this paragraph

From Macbeth:

Act III, Scene I, aines 11-20

11. Macbeth: Here’s our chief guest.

12. Lady Macbeth: If he had been forgotten,
13. It had been a gap in our great feast
14. And all thing unbecoming.
15. Macbeth: Tonight we hold a solemn supper, sir,
16. And I’ll request your presence.
17. Banquo: Let your highness
18. Command upon me, to the which my duties
19. Are with a most indissolluble tie
20. Forever knit.
 Examples of quoting #2
From Macbeth:
Act II, Scene IV, aines 14-20
14. Ross: And Duncan’s horses, a thing most strange
and certain,
15. Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race,
16. Turned wild in nature, broke their stalls, fung out,
17. Contending ‘gainst obedience as they would
18. Make war with mankind.
19. Old Man: ‘Tis said, they eat each other.
20. Ross: They did so, to th’amazement of mine eyes
That looked upon’t.
From a student essay:
When Duncan dies, various events in the
natural world suggest that the divine order of
things has been disrupted, and that the world
has suddenly been plunged into chaos. One
example of such an event can be seen in this
passage: Duncan’s horses are said to turn “wild
in nature, Contending ‘gainst obedience” (ll. 16-
17), and to have “eaten each other” (l.19). This
adds to the sense that the kingdom has been
given over to forces of evil, and that it is no
longer a safe or orderly place.
 Examples of quoting #2
From Macbeth:
Act II, Scene IV, aines 14-20
14. Ross: And Duncan’s horses, a thing most strange
and certain,
15. Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race,
16. Turned wild in nature, broke their stalls, fung out,
17. Contending ‘gainst obedience as they would
18. Make war with mankind.
19. Old Man: ‘Tis said, they eat each other.
20. Ross: They did so, to th’amazement of mine eyes
That looked upon’t.
From a student essay:
When Duncan dies, various events in the
natural world suggest that the divine order of
things has been disrupted, and that the world
has suddenly been plunged into chaos. One
example of such an event can be seen in this
passage: Duncan’s horses are said to turn “wild
in nature [ ] Contending ‘gainst obedience”
(ll. 16-17), and to have “[eaten] each other”
(l.19). This adds to the sense that the kingdom
has been given over to forces of evil, and that it
is no longer a safe or orderly place.
 Rewrite this paragraph

From Macbeth:

Act II, Scene IV, aines 14-20

14. Ross: And Duncan’s horses, a thing most strange

and certain,
15. Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race,
16. Turned wild in nature, broke their stalls, fung out,
17. Contending ‘gainst obedience as they would
18. Make war with mankind.
19. Old Man: ‘Tis said, they eat each other.
20. Ross: They did so, to th’amazement of mine eyes
That looked upon’t.
 Examples of quoting #3
From Macbeth:
Act III, Scene II, aines 45-51
45. Lady Macbeth: What’s to be done?
46. Macbeth: Be innocent of the knowledge,
dearest chuck,
47. Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling
night,
48. Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day
49. And with thy bloody and invisible hand
50. Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond
51. Which keeps me pale.
From a student essay:
In this scene, the way in which Macbeth
and Lady Macbeth have reversed roles,
and also the change in their relationship,
becomes clear. Lady Macbeth asks “What’s
to be done?”, and Macbeth replies that she
should remain “innocent of the
knowledge”. Macbeth then asks “seeling
night” to “Cancel and tear to pieces that
great bond / which keeps [him] pale”.
 Rewrite this paragraph

From Macbeth: .

Act III, Scene II, aines 45-51

45. Lady Macbeth: What’s to be done?

46. Macbeth: Be innocent of the knowledge,
dearest chuck,
47. Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night,
48. Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day
49. And with thy bloody and invisible hand
50. Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond
51. Which keeps me pale.
 Examples of quoting #4
From Macbeth:
Act II, Scene III, aines 84-86
84. Macbeth: Had I but died an hour before
this chance,
85. I had lived a blessed time, for from this
instant,
86. There’s nothing serious in mortality.
From a student essay:
Strangely enough, Macbeth feels
strengthened by Duncan’s death,
because he says he had “lived a
blessed time”, and because, from
that instant he does not take even
death seriously, as we can see
when he says “There’s nothing
serious in mortality” (ll. 85-86.)
 Rewrite this paragraph

From Macbeth:

Act II, Scene III, aines 84-86

84. Macbeth: Had I but died an hour before

this chance,

85. I had lived a blessed time, for from this

instant,

86. There’s nothing serious in mortality.

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