Good and Evil – ‘Fair is foul, and foul in fair’(1,1,11.) Banquo warns us they are ‘instruments of darkness’ (1,3,123-5.) Order and Chaos – compare before and after murder of Duncan, images of the natural world Banquo describes Macbeth’s castle (1,6,3-10) Lennox/Macduff – (2,3,54-61.) Duncan’s wounds -..his gash’d stabs look’d like a breach in nature / For ruin’s wasteful entrance… (2,3,114-5.)..your leafy screens throw down/And show like those you are. (5,6,1-2.)

* Witches – * Opening scene and meeting Macbeth and Banquo * Macbeth realises the witches bring out the worst in him * ‘Infected be the air wheron they ride/And damn’d all those that trust them! (4,2,138-9) * ‘How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!’ (4,1,48.) * Visions and Ghosts * Happens a number of times, first before Duncan’s murder * ‘Is this a dagger which I see before me….It is the bloody business which informs/Thus to my eyes…(2,1,33-49) * Banquo’s Ghost – * Lady Macbeth’s visions and night walkings

* Sergeant: ‘…brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name-’(1,2,16) * Duncan: ‘O valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman!’ (1,2,24) * Duncan: ‘I have begun to plant thee, and will labour/To make thee full of growing.’ (1,4,29-30) * Macbeth’s reaction to prophecy –‘Two truths are told’(1,3,128-42) * Ambition /indecision–‘If it were done… double trust’ (1,7,1-28) * Suffering – ‘O full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife’ (3,2,36) * ‘I am in blood/Stepped in so far’ (3,4,136-38) * ‘I have liv’d long enough…As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends/I must not look to have;but, in their stead/Curses, not loud but deep,’(5,3,22-8) * ‘Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player/That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,.. A tale/Told by an idiot,../Signifying nothing.’ (5,5,17-28)

* ‘Come, you spirits/That tend on mortal thoughts!unsex me here,’ (1,5,39-53) summons forces of darkness to help her. * ‘My hands are of your colour,’ (2,2,64-72) after murder takes control * ‘Out, damned spot!’ (5,1,34-9) later halluninations * BANQUO * Cautions Macbeth–‘…oftentimes, to win us to our harm’(1,3,123-6)

* About Macbeth – ‘…Brandished steel/Which smok’d with bloody execution, (1,2,17-19) * ‘Avaunt1 and quit my sight!Let the earth hide thee!/Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold.’(3,4,93-4) * ‘Thou liest, thou shag haired villain!’(4,2,81) * ‘The devil damn thee black, thou cream-fac’d loon!’(5,3,11) * ‘Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive,/Till famine cling thee…(5,5,38-40) * ‘We’ll have thee, as our rarer monsters are:/Painted upon a pole’ (5,7,54-55)