Scene 1
FIRST WITCH:
When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
SECOND WITCH:
When the hurly-burly’s done,
When the battle’s lost and won.
THIRD WITCH:
That will be before the set of sun.
FIRST WITCH: Where the place?
SECOND WITCH: Upon the heath1.
THIRD WITCH: There to meet with Macbeth.
ALL: Fair is foul, and foul is fair;
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
The mood in this scene is...
What is eerie?
The armies are two tired swimmers / that do cling together.
The metaphor describing the condition of the armies.
What is exhaustion?
"I’ll be myself the harbinger and make my / wife joyful when she hears of your approach."
What is a warning?
"They met me in the day of success"
Who are the Weird Sisters?
"What beast was it, / then, that makes you break this enterprise to me?"
What is killing Duncan?
In medieval Scotland, three witches enter.
They are in an open, barren place.
FIRST WITCH:
When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
SECOND WITCH:
When the hurly-burly’s done,
When the battle’s lost and won.
THIRD WITCH:
That will be before the set of sun.
FIRST WITCH: Where the place?
SECOND WITCH: Upon the heath1.
THIRD WITCH: There to meet with Macbeth.
ALL: Fair is foul, and foul is fair;
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
The mood is this scene is created by...
What is setting and weather?
"Fortune / smiles on his damned quarrel. But even that is / too weak; for brave Macbeth (well he deserves / that name), disdaining Fortune, with his / brandished steel,"
What is Macbeth not believing in luck?
What is Macbeth believing people make their own fate?
"He was a gentleman on whom I built / an absolute trust."
What is Duncan is not a good judge of character?
"unsex me here, / and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full / of direst cruelty."
BONUS POINT: "Make thick my blood. / stop up the access and passage"
What is weakness?
What is remorse/guilt?
"We will proceed no further in this business. / He hath honored me of late, and I have bought / golden opinions from all sorts of people, / which would be worn now in their newest gloss, / not cast aside so soon."
What is hesitation because of Duncan's kindness?
THIRD WITCH: There to meet with Macbeth.
Mentioning Macbeth in the first scene is likely an example of...
What is foreshadowing?
Although the play is about Macbeth, he is only mentioned and does not appear in the first two scenes.
What is showing the strength of Macbeth's reputation?
"But ’tis strange, and oftentimes, to bring us to our / harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, / win us with honest trinkets only to betray us."
Who is Banquo the wise?
"Thou wouldst be great, for you / are not without ambition, but without the illness / should accompany it."
What is cold-heartedness?
"I have nursed a baby, / and know how tender it is to love the babe that / milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, / have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums / and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you / have done to this."
What is Lady Macbeth's determination/ruthlessness/cold heartedness?
In Shakespeare’s time, witches were often associated with ruining or harming Nature. We know that the witches mean to harm or ruin nature because of...
What is the paradox in Line 9?
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair"
"They meant to bathe in reeking / wounds or make the battlefield another / Golgotha,"
What is an allusion to Jesus' crucifixion site?
What is violent and requires sacrifice?
"Who was the Thane lives yet, / But under heavy judgment; he bears / that life which he deserves to lose."
Macbeth becomes Thane of Cawdor by...
What is the old Thane being tried as a traitor?
"All our service, / is poor in comparison to those honors deep and / broad that Your Majesty loads our house. / For those past honors and the more recent / dignities heaped up to them, we are grateful."
The mood of Lady Macbeth in delivering these lines.
What is insincere?
"I am settled and bend up. My false / face must hide what the false heart doth know."
What is to emphasize his duplicity ?
An unoccupied or uncultivated piece of land, typically associated with coarse grass
What is a heath?
"until Macbeth, like Bellona’s bridegroom"
An allusion, alliteration, and a simile to...
What is showing Macbeth has a natural talent for fighting and making war?
"The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step / on which I must fall down or else overleap, / for in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; / let not light see my black and deep desires."
Macbeth feels...
BONUS POINT: Macbeth's plan
What is shame?
What is plotting against Duncan and his sons?
Shakespeare contrasts Banquo and Duncan’s description of the setting with the Macbeth’s plans.
BONUS POINT: Define & give an example.
What is juxtaposition?
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's plan to avoid blame for Duncan's murder.
What is get the king’s guards drunk and plant bloody daggers on them?