Characters
This character can't sleep at night recently.
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth says this line to Macbeth to encourage him to move on from their past actions and also echoes Macbeth’s soliloquy from Act 1, scene 7
“What’s done is done.”
This quote by Macbeth suggests that their enemies, like a snake, may recover and strike back.
"We have scorched the snake, not killed it.
She’ll close and be herself whilst our poor malice
Remains in danger of her former tooth.”
Slightly burned, or damaged by fire or heat
Scotched
A signal call on a trumpet or cornet for entrance or exit on the stage
Sennet
this character is sent to tell Lady Macbeth that her husband wants to speak with her.
The servant
This quote reflects Lady Macbeth's realization that achieving their desires has not brought them happiness.
“Naught’s had, all’s spent,
Where our desire is got without content.
‘Tis safer to be that which we destroy
Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.”
Macbeth describes that the dead have more peace than he does in this quote.
"Better be with the dead, whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, than on the torture of the mind to lie in restless ecstasy.”
Desire to hurt another person
Malice
Unable to be destroyed
Indissoluble
This character urges Macbeth to be "bright and jovial among your guests tonight."
Lady Macbeth
Macbeth speaks this line in, suggesting they should hide their true feelings behind a false appearance.
“And make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are.”
Lady Macbeth gives this advice to Macbeth, which illustrates the theme of Appearance versus Reality.
"Sleek o’er your rugged looks; Be bright and jovial among your guests tonight."
A mask or disguise
Vizards
Bitterness or resentfulness
Rancors
Macbeth fears this character will inherit the throne, as prophesied by the witches.
Fleance
This quote reflects Macbeth's desire to keep Lady Macbeth from the details of his violent plans.
“Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, till thou applaud the deed.”
Macbeth uses this quote to convey that he would rather face a world in chaos than live in fear and torment.
“But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams.”
A state of extreme happiness, especially when feeling pleasure
Ecstasy
The teaching of religious teachers
Gospel
Macbeth plans to have this character murdered to prevent his heirs from becoming kings.
Banquo
This line is spoken by Macbeth to Lady Macbeth, revealing his obsessive fear that Banquo and his son could endanger his throne.
“Oh, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife! thou know’st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives.”
Pay particular attention to .... Speak to him and look at him so that he feels important.
“Let your remembrance apply to Banquo; Present him eminence, both with eye and tongue:”
An archaic or poetic word for eternal
Eterne
To declare positively as a fact
Avouch