| “By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.” ACT 4 SCENE 1 | -witches are calling Macbeth evil and wicked |
| where is Macbeth going to get the predictions from? ACT 4 SCENE 1 | -the masters–providing illusions |
| first apparition ACT 4 SCENE 1 | -an armed head–saying beware of macduff |
| second apparition and Macbeth’s response to this ACT 4 SCENE 1 | -a bloody child–saying that no man born from a woman can defeat Macbeth-first instinct–not to kill Macduff bc he was born from a woman-final decision–to kill Macduff to be sure |
| third apparition ACT 4 SCENE 1 | -crowned child–saying Macbeth will be king until english woods touches the scottish hills |
| “That will never be who can impress the forest, bud the tree unfix his earthbound root?” ACT 4 SCENE 1 | -Macbeth’s saying to witches that english woods won’t ever touch scottish hills bc you can’t pick up the woods |
| fourth apparition ACT 4 SCENE 1 | -8 kings, and ghost of banquo–saying banquo’s family line will be king |
| “The very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand.” ACT 4 SCENE 1 | -how he feels is going to be how he acts |
| “Facter’d he is, and yet fatherless” ACT 4 SCENE 2 | -lady macduff to son-he’s not acting like a father bc he deserted them |
| what is a traitor according to this scene ACT 4 SCENE 2 | -someone who lies and swears |
| “If he were dead, you’d weep for him: if you swould not, it were a good sign that I should quickly have a new father.” ACT 4 SCENE 2 | -son to lady macduff-if he was dead, you’d be crying, if he’s dead and you’re not crying then I get a new father |
| “Let us rather hld fast the mortal sword and like godo men bestride our down-falln birthdom each new morn new widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows strike heaven on the face…” ACT 4 SCENE 3 | -scotland is in a bad time, Macbeth is killing a lot of people |
| “I am young, but something you may deserve of him through me, and wisdom to offer up a weak poor innocent lamb to appease an angry g-d.” ACT 4 SCENE 3 | -malcolm is worried that he will sacrifice him to macbeth (angry g-d)-metaphor |
| “Bleed bleed, poor country! Great tyranny! …the title is affeer’s… I would not be the villian that thou think’st for the whole space that’s in the tyrant’s grasp, and the rich East to boot.” ACT 4 SCENE 3 | -maybe macbeth is threatening macduff to bring malcolm back to scotland-hyperbole |
| what was lady macbeth doing and saying and why and what does this say about her character ACT 5 SCENE 1 | -confesses to killing the people bc she feels guilty-she feels guilty and going crazy–ironic bc she told macbeth not to do that, which he didn’t, but she did |
| where are some of macbeth’s men going and why ACT 5 SCENE 2 | -birman woods to join Malcolm bc they don’t like macbeth |
| what happens when macbeth’s men try to warn him about the army coming ACT 5 SCENE 3 | -he feels very confident–hubris |
| what does this say about macbeth and lady macbeth’s relationship ACT 5 SCENE 4 | -he focuses on the war more than her |
| “Out out bried candle, life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets hid hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.” ACT 5 SCENE 6 | -metaphor for lady macbeth’s life, it’s blown out-a person (player) is in the world (stage) for a short amount of time |
| summarize what macbeth says to young siward ACT 5 SCENE 8 | -after macbeth kills him.. you can’t kill me bc you’re born of woman |
| “Of all men else I have avoided thee: but get thee back; my soul is too much charged with blood of thine already.” ACT 5 SCENE 9 | -macbeth to macduff-I’ve already killed most of your family so I deliberately stayed away from you |
| “Thou losest labor; as easy mayst thou the intrenchant air with thy keen sword impress as make me bleed: let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests: I bear a charmed life, which must not yield. To one of woman born.” ACT 5 SCENE 9 | -macbeth to macduff-you can’t defeat me bc no man born of woman can defeat me |
| “I know all the particulars of vice so grafted that, w hen they shall be opened, black Macbeth will seem aws pure as snow, and the poor state esteem him as a lamb, being compared with my confineless harms.” ACT 4 SCENE 3 | -if he became king, what macbeth is doing now would seem great-simile–comparing macbeth to being pure-simile–comparing a lamb to a good animal |
| “The king becoming graces as justice, verity, temperance …mercy, patience, courage and fortitude, I have no relish of them bout abound in the division of each several crime, acting it many ways. Had I power, I should pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, uproar the universal peace, counfound all unity on earth.” ACT 4 SCENE 3 | -malcolm says he doesn’t have any good king qualities -metaphor |
| “Fit to govern, no, not to live” ACT 4 SCENE 3 | -macduff to malcolm that he should not be king or live |
| what does ross say when macduff asks how his family is doing ACT 4 SCENE 3 | -they’re in peace |
| “Let’s make us medicines of our great revenge to cure this deadly grief” ACT 4 SCENE 3 | -malcolm to macduff-use this anger to get revenge on macbeth, dispute it like a man-metaphor |
| “Did heaven look on and would not take their part?” ACT 4 SCENE 3 | -G-d saw his family get murdered and he can’t do anything about it-personification |
| “Be the whetstone of your sword. Let grief covert to anger. Blunt not the heart; enrage it.” ACT 4 SCENE 3 | -use your emotions for war-metaphor |
ACT 4 MACBETH
October 17, 2019