-Macbeth is speaking to Lady Macbeth saying the day he killed Duncan, he has been taunted by ghosts, driving him mad, which have not allowed him to rest
Sleep no more! To all the house. Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more
While answering the door to Macbeth's Castle, the porter humorously pretends he is answering the gate of hell. He says he would be very busy because he would have to open the doors to all the evil and corrupt people.
Here's a knocking indeed! If a man were porter of hell gate, he should have old turning the key. Knock, knock knock! Who's there, I' th' name of Beelzebub? Here's a farmer that hanged himself on th' expectation of plenty. Come in time!
Macbeth is giving an excuse to why he suddenly killed Duncan's gaurds. Its ironic because Macbeth is trying to appear innocent, saying he feels sorrow for Duncan, when he was the true murderer.
Who can be wise, amazed, temp'rate, and furious, loyal, and neutral, in a moment? no man.
The 3rd apparation tells Macbeth that he will be king until Birnam woods moves over Dunsinane Hill. In exitment, Macbeth thought he would be king forever since trees usually do not move over hills. To his surprise, Malclolm's army moves the trees over the
Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care who chafes, who frets, or where conspires are. Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him
Ross rationalizes with Macbeth to why Macduff left her and fled to England. Ross explains that Macduff is unaware that of his treason, but simply judged rumors and fled in fear of what might happen to him
But cruel are the times when we are traitors and do not know ourselves; when we hold rumor from what we fear, yet know not what we fear, but float upon a wild and violent sea each way and move- I take my leave of you
Ross tells Lady Macduff that her husband is couragous and means well even though he has fled the country.
But for your husband, he is noble, wise, judicious, and best knows the fits o' th' season. I dare not speak much further
Macbeth tells lady macbeth that murder will result in another murder. Macbeth realizes Banquo's murder will not go unpunished, and that he will have to pay for it
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood
Macbeth tells lady macbeth that stones will move and trees will speak to get revenge. This foreshadows the apparations prophecy and when Malcolm's army dissgues themselves as forest
stones have been known to move, and trees to speak;
The lord explains to Lennox that evil twists of fate take nothing from Malcolm, and he deserves to be king
The the malevolence of fortune nothing takes from his highrespect
Lady Macbeth explains to Macbeth that you use to murder someone and they would remain dead, but now they rise from the dead and haunt you.
blood hathbeen shed ere now, I' the' olden time, ere humane statue purged the gentle weal; AY, and since too, murders have been performed too terrible for the ear
Lady Macbeth demonstrates that she is the mastermind behind the murders, using Macbeth as her tool.
Why, worthy thane, you do unbend your noble strength to think so brain sickly of things. Go get someowater, and wash this filthy witness from your hand. Why did you bring these daggers from the place?
We first see shakesphere foreshadowing of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth going insane. Also important because ironic that Lady Macbeth is giving advice on how not to become insane after committing murder, when in the end she kills herself of insanity.
These deeds must not be thought after these ways; so, it will make us mad
Macbeth is speaking to Banquo's ghost, saying you can take any form but of Banquo and he will not be fearful.
What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, the armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves shall never tremble
Macbeth says he has killed to many people that it would be harder to stop killing and become good, than to keep on murdering.
I am in blood. Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er
Lennox is using a sarcastic tone to explain how false the fact is that Malcolm and Donalbain kill their own loving father.
Who cannot want the though how monstrous It was for Malcolm and for Donalbain to kill their gracious father?
Lady Macbeth wants to be "unsexed" and filled with "direst cruelty" because she wants to be more like a man, who can murder with no regret
unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood. Stop up th' access and passage to remorse
Duncan is speaking how lovely and welcoming Macbeth's castle is. Its ironic because Macbeth and his wife have created false sense of hospitality for Banquo and Duncan, which sets the tone for uncertanty and disaster
This castle hath a pleasant seat. The air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself. Duncan smells wooing here
Lady Macbeth describes that an unjust act of murder is accompanied by an incurable illness of insanity
thou wouldst be great, art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it
Malcolm is unknowingly make the witches 3rd prophecy true by telling his soldiers to take branch of wood from Birnam and hold it in front of himself, to disguise the number or men there were, which scares Macbeth more than the idea of ten thousand men mar
Let every soldier hew him down a bough, and bear't before him. Thereby shall we shadow the numbers of our host and make discovery err in report of us
Macbeth says this showing his reliance on the witches prophecy, which makes him feel invincable. This is Macbeth's fatal flaw, he completely believes what the witches said so he only fears things they specicified, leading to his death
But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn, Brandished by man that's of a woman born
Macduff makes witches first prophecy true, but feeling his last goal in life is to have revenge on his wife and children's murder and kills Macbeth
Either thou, Macbeth or else my sword with an unbattered edge I sheathe again undeeded
Macbeth is talking about Duncan:
Macbeth says how he should not be the one to kill Duncan because Macbeth is his subject, and secondly his host. Macbeth says he is expected to stop any murders of Duncan, instead of killing him himself
He's 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 murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself
Macbeth says Duncan is a humble kings, and for himself to murder Duncan would make many of his subjects very angry
Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been so clear in his great office, that his virtues will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against the deep damnation of his taking off
Macbeth is risking his fait because killing Duncan would ruin his reputation which would later come back to haunt him.
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases we still have judgment here that we but teach bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague th' inventor
Banquo says if you can tell the future than speak it by comparing future to seeds and events in the future to grains. He also says he is noth afraid of witches or what will happen to him in future
If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and which will not, then, to me, who neither beg nor fear your favors nor your hate
Macbeth has just found out that he will be king through witches prophecy, but wonders if he has to kill Duncan (foreshadows him murdering Duncan)
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings. My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, shakes so my single state of man
Banquo says that evil beings tell part truth so they can create chaos. (forshadows Macbeth killing Duncan)
But 'tis strange and often times, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence
Lady Macbeth feels guilty for turning Macbeth into a muderous monster, which caused Macbeth to kill all of Macduff's family.
The Thane of Fife had a wife. Whiere is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more o'that, my lord, no more o'that. You mar all with this starting.
Lady Macbeth has begun to gone mad knowing that she cause Macbeth to become a murdrous monster. She didnt know this would happen and all she can see is blood and fell remorse
Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
Macbeth talks about how life has no meaning anymore since Lady Macbeth has killed herself, but he feels he must keep going because he is too obsessed with power.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing
Banquo fears that Macbeth has killed Duncan to fuffill the witches prophecy and is now scared that Macbeth will kill him and his son to maintain the crown
Thou hast it now King, Cawdor, Glamis, all as the Weird Women promised, and i fear thou playedst most foully for't
Macbeth to lady Macbeth:
Macbeth has killed Duncan so he could become king
I have done the deed. Didsnt thou not hear a noise?
Macduff: The life of the building is the king's life, showing that the king embodies scotland and he is life of country
Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope the lord's anointed temple and stole thence the life o'th'building.
Macbeth says Banquo is his enemy as long as he lives because the prophecy says that his son will be king
so is he mine, and in such blood distance that every minute of his being thrusts against my near'st of life
-BanquoThis is important because this is a major change in the story when Banquo is killed. His son, Fleance, escapes and the witches' prophecy remains true that Banquo will be the father to a king.
O treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!
Macbeth begins to unveil his plan of killing Banquo to his hired murderers. This is a key point because eventually the guilt of killing Banquo would destroy Macbeth.
3.) "See, they encounter thee with their hearts' thanks. / Both sides are even. Here I'll sit I' th' midst. / Be large in mirth. Anon we'll drink a measure / the table round. There's blood upon my face.
Macduffs fear causes him to flea to England, leaving his family behind. He leaves his wife to care for her and their son, but they are murdered shortly after. Macduff has no wisdom and leaves everything he once loved behind.
Wisdom? To leave his wife, to leave his babes,
His mansion and his titles in a place
From whence himself does fly? He loves us not
A messenger foresees danger coming after Lady Macduff and her son and warns them to leave. Lady Macduff doesn't take the messengers advice and her son is killed by one of the murderers.
I doubt some danger does approach you nearly.
If you will take a homely man's advice,
Be not found here. Hence with your little ones.
Macbeth realizes Macduff is not a threat to him, but to be positive, he decides he will kill Macduff. There is no reason to kill Macduff, but Macduff is too filled with fear to let him live.
But yet I'll make assurance double sure,
And take a bond of fate. Thou shalt not live,
That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies,
And sleep in spite of thunder.
: Macduff appears with Macbeth's head and curses Macbeth and the wicked Queen while he proclaims Malcom king. He asks the remaining cast to join with him and express the new King Malcom's glory when they all chant: "Hail King of Scotland!"
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� "Behold where stands th'usuper's cursed head: the time is free: I see thee compassed with thy kingdom's pearl, that speak my salutation in their minds; Whose voice I desre aloud with mine: Hail, king of Scotland!
: Macbeth, then Macduff.
� Analysis: Macbeth has begun to thought that he could not be slain by one of a woman born, but did not realize until it was too late that Macduff was ripped from his mother's womb, and then is slain by Macduff. This quote express
I bear a charmed life, which must not yield to one of a woman born.
� And let the Angel whom thou still hast served tell the, Macduff was from his mother's womb ultimately ripped.
Analysis: Macbeth is expressing how he has not felt fear for so long because he has lived a lie of being invincible to that of a woman born. He deeply thinks about the past, present and contemplates the future.
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� "The time has been, my sesnse qould have cooled to hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life werent in it.
Duncan says what thane of Cawdor lost, Macbeth has gained
What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won
Duncan says you cannot trust someone based on what they appear to be and forshadows Macbeth killing Duncan
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face
Macbeth wants to be hidden and let no one know of his desire to kill Duncan to become king
Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep disires
Macbeth says that Duncan's even handed justice/ poisoning (murdering ) Duncan will murder them
This even-handed justice commends th' ingredience of our poisoned chalice to our own lips
Lady Macbeth saying that she has also partaken in the murder along with Macduff, but would be ashamed to have such a weak heart
My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white
Macbeth talking about how he is ashamed of his murder of Duncan
to know my deed' twere best not know myself
Macbeth acts like his life is meainingless now that Duncan is dead, when he really killed him
renown and grace is dead. The wine of life is drawn,and the mere lees is let this vault to brag of
Macbeth talking to Malcolm and Donalbain about how the life of them and the country is gone
You are, and do not know't. The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood Is stopped; the very source of it is stopped
old man saying how the balance of the world is disturbed since the king has been killed. (great falcoln killed by weak hawk)
tis unnatural, even like the deed that's done. On tusday last a falcon, tow'ring in her pride of place, was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed
Macbeth says to be king means nothing, if he is not safe as king
to be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus
Hecate
and you all know, security is mortals' chiefest enemy
Macbeth
the flighty purpose never is o'ertook unless the deed go with it
Malcolm is tricking Macduff to see if he has good intentions of helping him by saying all these horrible things about himself
But there's no bottom, none, In my voluptuousness. Your wives, your daughter, your matrons, and your maids could not fill up the cistern of my lust, and my desire
The king is the life of the country. Only king is being crowned but
come, go we to the King. Our power is ready; our lack is nothing but our leave