Assessment objectives AO1: themes and ideas & knowledge of whole play AO2: specific detail from the play & subject terminology AO3: contextual links and contemporary relevance

Act 3 – key quotes Lady Macbeth to M: “You must leave this” “full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife” Macbeth: “Be innocent of the knowledge…Come seeling night, scarf up thy tender eye of pitiful day” Macbeth: “Hence, horrible shadow, unreal mockery, hence!” “It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood”. “I am in blood Stepped so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o-er”

Act 3 – dramatic devices Dramatic devices On-stage murder Blood Ghost Linguistic devices/imagery Sleep Blood Deception/lies Structural features Role reversal/parallel dialogue to Acts 1& 2: Macbeth & Lady Macbeth

Act 3 Scene 1: Macbeth, Banquo, murderers Banquo alone on stage: “Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, As the weird women promised, and I fear thou play’dst most foully for’t” Macbeth & Lady Macbeth invite Banquo to a formal banquet Macbeth alone on stage: “Our fears in Banquo stick deep, and in his royalty of nature reigns that which would be feared.” Macbeth discusses Banquo’s death with the murderers: “We are men, my liege” [as if committing murder proves manhood]; “I will advise you where to plant yourselves” [QU: How does this echo Lady Macbeth in Act 1 Scenes 5 & 7?] “It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul’s flight, If it find heaven, must find it out tonight.”

Act 3 Scene 2: Lady Macbeth, Macbeth Lady Macbeth alone on stage: “Nought’s had, all’s spent, Where our desire is got without content.” Lady Macbeth to M: “You must leave this” Macbeth: “full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife” Lady M: “What’s to be done?” Macbeth: “Be innocent of the knowledge…Come seeling night, scarf up thy tender eye of pitiful day” Macbeth: “Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, Whiles night’s black agents to their preys do rouse”

Act 3 Scene 4: Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, banquet Macbeth: “There’s blood upon thy face… Tis better thee without than he within” [The Ghost of Banquo sits in Macbeth’s seat] – “Which of you has done this?” L. Macbeth: “Sit, worthy friends. My lord is often thus…” “-Are you a man?” “This is the air-drawn dagger which you said Led you to Duncan”; “What, quite unmanned in folly?” Macbeth: “Hence, horrible shadow, unreal mockery, hence!” “It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood”. “I am in blood Stepped so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o-er”

Act 3 – short scenes Scene 3: 1st, 2nd, 3rd murderers, Banquo, Fleance Banquo: “O treachery! Fly good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!” Scene 5: witches, Hecate The heath, thunder [as in Act 1 Scene 1]. NB In general, it is thought that Shakespeare didn’t write this scene. Scene 6: Lennox, Lord Lennox: “the tyrant’s feast”. Macduff has gone to England “that we might again give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights…”

Act 3 Scene 2: Macbeth & Lady Macbeth – role reversal Scene 4: Macbeth – a frightening man! Macbeth: “I am in blood Stepped so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o-er” Macbeth: “Strange things I have in head, that will to hand” Lady M: “You lack the season of all natures, sleep” Macbeth: “We are yet but young in deed”