1. Macbeth
by Shakespeare

2. Act I

3. Weird Sisters’ Predictions
Macbeth: 1. Thane of Glamis
2. Thane of Cawdor
3. King of Scotland

4. Banquo: 1. Lesser than Macbeth, but
greater
2. Not so happy, yet happier
3. Descendents will be kings, not him

5. “Fair is foul, and foul is fair, / Hover through the fog and filthy air” (I.i.11-12).
-Weird Sisters

6. “What, can the devil speak true?” (I.iii.108).
-Banquo

7. “There’s no art / to find the mind’s construction in the face” (I. iv
-King Duncan

8. “Stars hide your fires; / let not light see my black and deep desires” (I.iv.50-51).
-Macbeth

9. “Yet I fear thy nature, / It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness / to catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great / Art not without ambition, but without / the illness should attend it” (I.v.16-19).
-Lady Macbeth

10. “Come you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe topful / Of direst cruelty!” (I.v.40-43).
-Lady Macbeth

11. “Come to my woman’s breasts / And take my milk for gall…. ” (I. v
-Lady Macbeth

12. “Come, thick night, / And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell” (I.v.50-51).
-Lady Macbeth

13. “Look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under’t” (I. v
-Lady Macbeth

14. “He is here in double trust; / First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, / Strong both against the deed; then, as his host / Who should against his murtherer shut the door, / Not bear the knive myself” (I.vii.12-16).
-Macbeth

15. “I have given suck, and know / How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me; /I would, while it was smiling in my face, / Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums, / And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you / Have done to this” (I.vii.54-59).
-Lady Macbeth

16. “False face must hide what the false heart doth know” (I.vii.82).
-Macbeth

17. Act II

18. Symbolism: darkness, night,
black, midnight
“moon is down” (II.i.2).
“after midnight” (II.ii.1).
“their candles are all out” (II.ii.5).

19. “I think not of [the witches]” (II.ii.23). -Macbeth
Liar, liar, pants on fire!

20. “Is this a dagger which I see before me; / the handle toward my hand
“Is this a dagger which I see before me; / the handle toward my hand?” (II.i.34-35).
-Macbeth
Stressed?

21. “These deeds must not be thought/ After these ways; so, it will make us mad” (II.ii.30-31).
-Lady Macbeth
Foreshadowing?

22. “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand? No.” (II.ii.57-58).
-Macbeth

23. “My hands are of your color; but I shame / To wear a heart so white” (II.ii.61-62).
-Lady Macbeth
Calling him a whimp!

24. “To know my deed, ‘twere best not know myself” (II.ii.70).
-Macbeth

25. Beginning of scene iii: Opens with porter at gate for comic relief!
Describes alcohol:
“It provokes and unprovokes: it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance” (II.iii.29-30). -Porter

26. “O gentle lady, / Tis not for you to hear what I can speak: / The repetitiion in a woman’s ear / Would murther as it fell” (II.ii.83-86).
-Banquo
Irony. Which theme?

27. “Help me, hence, ho!” (II.iii.119). -Lady Macbeth
Faker. Theme(s)?

28. “Wherefore did you so?” (II.iii.108). -Macduff
Asks WHY he killed the guards; first sign of suspicion.

29. “Where we are, / There’s daggers in men’s smiles; the near in blood, / The nearer bloody” (II.iii.23).
-Donalbain to Malcolm
Which theme?

30. “Thriftless ambition, that will raven up / Thine own life’s means
“Thriftless ambition, that will raven up / Thine own life’s means!” (II.iv.28-29).
-Rosse about Malcolm and Donalbain (because they are suspected of murder since they fled)
Ambition theme
Foreshadowing