Act 1
Act 2
Act 3
Act 4
Act 5
100
The witch cast a curse on the sailor and gave him insomnia. Unable to sleep, the sailor is slow suffering more and more each day until he is no longer human. This shows that sleep can cause one physical and mental damage that will lead to one's destruction.
What is “I will drain him dry as hay: Sleep shall neither night nor day Hang upon his pent-house lid; He shall live a man forbid: Weary se'nnights nine times nine Shall he dwindle, peak and pine: Though his bark cannot be lost, Yet it shall be tempest-tost” By the witch (1.3.17-24)
100
The guards shouted "Murder!", startling Macbeth as he completed his task of killing Duncan.
What is There's one did laugh in's sleep, and one cried 'Murder!', That they did wake each other; I stood, and heard them, But they did say their prayers and address'd them Again to sleep. (2. 2. 25-27)
100
In this passage, Macbeth is totally spooked out by Banquo's ghost, who is really just a hallucination, and is not real. Macbeth is mentally ill with his recent acts of evil.
What is MACBETH: Here had we now our country’s honor roofed, Were the graced person of our Banquo present, Who may I rather challenge for unkindness Than pity for mischance. ROSS: His absence, sir, Lays blame upon his promise. Please ’t your highness To grace us with your royal company? MACBETH: The table’s full. LENNOX: Here is a place reserved, sir. MACBETH: Where? LENNOX: Here, my good lord. What is ’t that moves your highness? MACBETH: Which of you have done this? LORDS: What, my good lord? MACBETH: (to GHOST) Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake Thy gory locks at me. (Macbeth, 3.4.40-51)
100
Macduff explains what he would do if he is mentally unstable, he would steal people's wealth and put them to "sleep" which is similar to what Macbeth is doing
What is "In my most ill-compos'd affection such A stanchless avarice that were I king, I should cut off the nobles for their lands Desire his jewels, and this other's house" (4.3.77-79)
100
Lady Macbeth is sick mentally and causes her demise.
What is "Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from her rest", 5.3.38-40​
200
Macbeth is anxious about the prophecy of the witches, which is a kind of mental sickness and this causes him to waver and easily persuaded by Lady Macbeth later on. As a result, Macbeth kills Duncan and display that sickness can cause destruction.
What is “Cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings: My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is But what is not” By Macbeth (1.3.130-141)
200
Lady Macbeth is trying to pin the deed to someone else so that Macbeth will seem innocent and take over the throne.
What is Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures. 'Tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I’ll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt. (2. 2. 56-60)
200
In this passage, Lady Macbeth calls her husband a wuss for acting like a woman who has been told scary stories by the fireplace. In reality, Macbeth is mentally ill, which explains his hallucinations.
What is Lady Macbeth: O proper stuff! This is the very painting of your fear. This is the air-drawn dagger which you said Led you to Duncan. Oh, these flaws and starts, Impostors to true fear, would well become A woman’s story at a winter’s fire, Authorized by her grandam. Shame itself! Why do you make such faces? When all’s done, You look but on a stool. (Macbeth,3.4.61-68)
200
These sick people avoided from being put to sleep permanently by being cured of their disease, scrofula
What is "Ay, sir: there are a crew of wretched souls That stay his cure; their malady convinces The great assay of art, but at his touch, Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand They presently amend" (4.3.141-145)
200
Lady Macbeth is regretting her actions
What is "Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One, two. Why then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?" 5.1.31-36
300
Lady Macbeth plans on killing Duncan while he's asleep.
What is “We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep-- Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey Soundly invite him--his two chamberlains Will I with wine and wassail so convince That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason A limbeck only: when in swinish sleep Their drenched natures lie as in a death, What cannot you and I perform upon The unguarded Duncan? what not put upon His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt Of our great quell?” By Lady Macbeth (1.7.59-73)
300
Lady Macbeth wants Macbeth to make the situation seem like someone else had done it by covering them up with blood and giving them the bloody daggers while they slept, not able to realize what was done to them.
What is Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must lie there. Go carry them and smear The sleepy grooms with blood. (2. 2. 48-50)
300
In this passage, Lady Macbeth comments on her husband's lack of sleep, so they decide to go to bed and pass off his hallucinations as "inexperience with crime."
What is LADY MACBETH: You lack the season of all natures, sleep. MACBETH: Come, we’ll to sleep. My strange and self-abuse Is the initiate fear that wants hard use. We are yet but young in deed. (Macbeth 3.4.148-150)
300
Grief is treated as a sickness, and it can only be cured by killing Macbeth
What is "Let's make us med'cines of our great revenge To cure this deadly grief" (4.3.216-217)
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