“Thou hast it now-King, Cawdor, Glamis, all/As the Weird Women promised, and I fear/Thou played’st most foully for’t” (Lines 1-3) scene 1 | Banquo, soliloquy, Macbeth has all 3 titles as promised by the witches but fears that macbeth killed Duncan |
“We hear out bloody cousins are bestowed/In England and in Ireland, not confessing/Their cruel parricide, filling their hears/WIth strange invention (line 33-36)”scene 1 | Macbeth to Banquo, Malcolm and donalbain are in hiding, won’t confess to killing their father, blaming Macbeth |
“To be thus is nothing,/But to be safely thus.” (lines 52-53) scene 1 | Macbeth, soliloquy. To be king means nothing if I can’t keep it |
“Do you find/Your patience so predominant in your nature/That you can let this go?” (pages 96-98) scene 1 | Macbeth to murderers, are you going to let Banquo get away with ruining your lives? |
“Banquo, thy soul’s flight,/If it find heaven, must find it out tonight.” (lines 161-162) scene 1 | Macbeth, soliloquy, Banquo will die that night and know if he’s going to heaven |
“Things without all remedy/Should be without regard. What’s done is done.” (lines 13-14) scene 2 | Lady Macbeth to Macbeth. Stop worrying about killing Duncan and move on. (He’s thinking about killing Banquo and Lady Macbeth thinks he’s still dwelling on Duncan) |
“We have scorched the snake, not killed it” (line 15) scene 2 | Macbeth to lady Macbeth, by killing duncan, they eliminated one threat but there are still others |
“O treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly,fly!/Thou mayst revenge-O slave!” (line 25-26) scene 3 | Banquo to Fleance, run for your life and get revenge on macbeth |
“We have lost best half of our affair./Well, leer’s away and say how much is done.” (lines 31-33) scene 3 | Murderer to murderer, fleance fled/got away and they have to tell macbeth |
“But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in/To saucy doubts and fears” (lines 26-27)scene 4 | Macbeth, aside, feels trapped and scared because fleance got away. |
“There is the grown serpent lies. The worm that’s fled/Hath nature that in time will venom breed,/No teeth for th’ present” (lines 32-34) scene 4 | Macbeth to murderer, aside, Banquo is dead and Fleance will eventually be a threat. |
“Here had we now our country’s honor roofed,/Were the graced person of our Banquo present,/Who may I rather challenge for unkindness.Than pity for mischance” (Lines 46-49) scene 4 | Macbeth toast to dinner guests, he hopes Banquo is being rude and nothing happened to him |
“The table’s full” (line 54) scene 4 | Macbeth to Ross and lennox. He sees Banquo’s ghost in his chair, there is not open seat. |
“This is the very painting of your fear./This is the air-drawn dagger which you said/Led you to Duncan” (lines 74-76) scene 4 | Lady Macbeth to Macbeth, aside, he’s seeing things out of fear like when he killed Duncan |
“Why do you make such faces? When all’s done,/You look but on a stood ” (lines 80-81) scene 4 | Lady macbeth to macbeth, aside, why are you scared? you;re looking at an empty chair |
“The time has been/ that, when the brains were out, the man would die,/and there an end. But now they rise again…” lines 94-96 scene 4 | Macbeth to lady macbeth, aside, dead men used to stay dead but now they come back like Banquo’s ghost |
“Stand not upon the order of your going,/ But go at once.” lines 146-147 scene 4 | Lady macbeth to guests, don’t leave by rank, just get out, because she’s afraid of what macbeth might say. |
“how say’st that macduff denies his person/at our great bidding?” lines 159-160 scene 4 | macbeth to lady macbeth, what do you think about macduff not coming to dinner? |
“I am in blood/stepped in so far that, should i wade no more,/returning were as tedious as go o’er” lines 168-170 | Macbeth to lady macbeth, i might as well continue killing people |
“My strange and self-abuse/Is the initiate fear that wants hard use/We are yet but young in deed” lines 174-176 scene 4 | Macbeth to lady macbeth, I’m new to killing so I need more practice |
“and i, the mistress of your charms/The close contriver of all harms/Was never called to bear my part/or show the glory of our art?” lines 6-9 scene 5 | Hecate to the 3 witches, angry that they met with macbeth and didn’t invite her |
“He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear/His hopes ‘bove wisdom, grace, and fear./And you all know, security/is mortals’ chiefest enemy.” lines 30-33 scene 5 | Hecate to 3 witches. lure macbeth into false sense of security and then he’ll start taking foolish chances |
“And the right valiant Banquo walked too late, /Whom you may say, if’t please you, Fleance killed, /For Fleance fled” lines 6-8 scene 6 | Lennox to lord, sarcastically says that Fleance must’ve killed Banquo because he fled |
“Some holy angel/Fly to the court of england and unfold/His message ere he come, that a swift blessing/May soon return to this our suffering country/Under a hand accursed” lines 51-55 scene 6 | Lennox to lord, he hopes macduff will get help from malcolm to save Scotland from Macbeth. |
Macbeth Act 3
July 7, 2019