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O treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!
Thou may ’st revenge —O slave! (Banquo, Scene 3)
What is Oh, this is horrible! Get out of here, good Fleance, run, run, run! Someday you can get revenge for me.
Which character went from assertive to doubtful? Find text evidence.
Who is Lady Macbeth -- "Naught's had and all's spent where our desire is got without content. 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy then by destruction dwell in doubtful joy."
Who said "We hear our bloody cousins are bestowed in England and in Ireland, not confessing their cruel parricide, filling their hearers with strange inventions"
Who is Macbeth.
Macbeth says this aside when he finds out Fleance has escaped.
--What literary device is present? Explain.
What is "I had else been perfect. Whole as the marble, founded as the rock, as broad and general as the casing air. But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in to saucy doubts and fears."
--Metaphor
Who is the man who is assisting Macduff in his attempt at war with Macbeth?
Who is Edward?
"As the weird women promised, and I fear
Thou played’st most foully for ’t." (Banquo, Scene 1)
What is Just like the weird women promised you, I suspect you cheated or did something wrong to win these titles.
Who says that they must disguise their true intentions: "Make our faces vizards to our hearts." Who is this person speaking to?
Who is Macbeth and Lady Macbeth?
Who said "Leave no rubs nor botches in the work, Fleance, his son, that keeps him company, whose absence is no less material to me than is his father's must embrace the fate of that dark hour."
Who is Macbeth?
What does Banquo reveal at the start of the act? Find text evidence.
--What kind of device is this called?
--Why is this moment important?
What is "I fear thou playds't most foully for it."
--Soliloquy
--This is the first time that he had even considered Macbeth the murderer.
This is the location the witches decide to meet at for their next meeting.
What is the pit of Acheron?
"To be thus is nothing,
But to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo
Stick deep" (Macbeth, Scene 1)
What is To be the King is nothing if I’m not safe as the King. I’m very afraid of Banquo.
Which Witch is in charge? And what is her plan for Macbeth during their next meeting? Find text evidence and paraphrase.
Who is Hecate. She will make him spurn fate, scorn death, and bear his hopes above wisdom.
--He will feel as though he cannot be touched, invincible!
Who said "Sleek o'er your rugged looks. Be bright and jovial among your guests tonight."
Who is Lady Macbeth?
What metaphor does Macbeth use to state that he will not try to 'undo' what he has done, but will instead continue on with murder? What does the metaphor mean?
What is "I am in blood stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er."
--I will no longer wade (like in water) I will continue all the way to the deep end because going back would be just as difficult.
In his soliloquy, what line does Macbeth discuss the fact that he has actually put a bitter taste in his peaceful state of mind?
What is "[I] put rancors in the vessel of my peace."
"There the grown serpent lies. The worm that’s fled
Hath nature that in time will venom breed;
No teeth for th' present." (Macbeth, Scene 4)
What is Banquo lies in the ditch. Fleance has escaped and will in time become a threat, but for now, he has no fangs or isn't a problem.
Who makes excuses for Macbeth during the banquet scene when the ghost of Banquo appears? What does she say is the problem? Find text evidence.
Who is Lady Macbeth -- "My lord is often thus and hath been from his youth."
Who said "Good night and better health attend his majesty."
Who is Lennox?
What is dramatic irony? Find text evidence of it and explain the significance of that text.
What is when the audience knows something that characters don't.
-"Sit worthy friends. My lord is often thus and hath been from his youth."
-"I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing to those that know me."
Why is it ironic that Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth that "Things without all remedy should be without regard. What's done is done" (3.2.11-12).
'Tis safer to be that which we destroy
Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy." (Lady Macbeth, Scene 2)
What is It’s better to be the person who gets murdered than to be the killer and be tormented by anxiety.
Who are the two characters that indirectly suggest that Macbeth is the murderer and not a good leader? Find text evidence from both characters.
Who is Lennox: [I hope] a swift blessing may soon return to this suffering country under a hand accursed.
Who is the Lord: The son of Duncan (from whom this tyrant hold the due of birth)...
Who said "Thy bones are marrowless; thy blood is cold. Thou hast no speculation in those eyes which thou dost glare with."
Who is Macbeth?
In Macbeth's soliloquy he says, "Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown and put a barren scepter in my grip, thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand."
Why is this important? What devices do you see and what do they mean?
What is Macbeth realizes that he has no children to pass the crown to and Banquo's son will take it away from Macbeth.
Metaphor: fruitless crown, barren scepter = no children, empty
This is the only movement of Banquo's ghost (besides sitting in his chair). Find the text evidence.
What is he shakes his 'gory locks' at Macbeth.