| Thou art the best o’ th’ cutthroats, yet he’s good that did the like for fleance. If thou didst it, thou art nonpareil | Macbeth to first murderer. When macbeth asks whose blood is on his face. Significance: a pun because that’s exactly what the murderer did to banquo |
| Better be with the dead, whom we, gain our peace, have sent to peace, than on the torture of the mind to lie in relentless ecstasy. | Macbeth to lady macbethWhen macbeth is telling his wife his title is still in great danger. Significance, mabeth shows insecurity of his position as king |
| Then comes my fit again. I had else been perfect , whole as the marble, founded as the rock, as broad and general as the casing air. But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in to saucy doubts and fears.– but banquo’s safe? | Mabeth to first murdererWhen first murderer tells macbeth fleance got awaySignificance, fleance has escaped leaving macbeth worried and anxious |
| O, proper stuff! this is the very painting of your fear. This is the air drawn dagger which you said led you to duncan | Lady macbeth to macbethWhen macbeth sees the ghost of banquoSignificance, shows how macbeths fear and guilt has consumed him |
| This time has been that, when the brains were out, the man would die, and there an end. But now they rise again with twenty mortal murderers on their crowns and push us from our stools. | Macbeth to lady macbethWhen lady tells macbeth he is only hallucinatingSignificance, he fears the ghost of banquo will haunt him |
| Thou has is now–king, cawdor, glamis, all as weird women promised, and I fear thou played’st most foully for’t | Banquo to macbethWhen banquo enters the palace of macbeth and reminds macbeth that his sons will be kings not macbethsSignificance, causes macbeth to kill banquo |
| To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo stick deep, and in his royalty of nature reigns that which would be feared. I am in blood stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er | Macbeth to lady macbethWhen lady and macbeth are talking about how macduff refuses to come when macbeth commands himSignificance, macbeth is going to call a war |
| ( to leave no rubs or botches in the work) Fleance, his son, that keeps him company, whose absence is nobless material to me than is his father’s, must embrace the fate of that dark hour. | Macbeth to both murderersWhen discussing the plan to murder banquo and his sonSignificance, macbeths implying fleance will overthrow and kill macbeth wich was banquos fate. |
Macbeth act 3 quote identification
August 20, 2019