Act 1, Scene 3 - Quotes Flashcards
What can you say about this scene?
Previous scene of nobility is juxtaposed against 2 scenes of the supernatural.
Foregrounds Macbeth’s fate, he becomes captain of his own land and is then doomed.
“I’the’shipman’s card”
First witch.
Foregrounds theme of sleep.
“I’ll drain him dry as hay: Sleep shall neither night nor day”
First witch.
Almost parallels witches words.
Foregrounds the influence of supernatural.
“So foul and fair a day I have not seen”
Macbeth.
Unnatural looking women - witches.
“That look not like th’inhabitants o’th’earth”
Banquo.
Foregrounds Macbeth’s ambition.
“All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter”
Third witch.
Prophecy for Banquo.
“Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none”
Third witch.
Confirms witches prophecy.
“He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor”
Ross.
Idea of supernatural.
Reference to the witches.
“What, can the devil speak true?”
Banquo.
Significance of clothing and appearance.
“The Thane of Cawdor lives. Why do you dress me in borrow’d robes?”
Macbeth.
Foregrounds Macbeth’s own actions.
“But treasons capital, confess’d and prov’d, have overthrown him”
Angus.
The source of his paranoia.
“Do you not hope your children shall be kings…”
Macbeth.
Can’t stop thinking about the witches.
“Present fears are less than horrible imaginings”
Macbeth.
Nothing matters except what is too come.
“Nothing is but what is not”
Macbeth.
