Act 3 Flashcards
Quote by banquo showing that he is suspicious of Macbeth
‘Thou playd’st most foully for’t’
Quote by Macbeth showing that when he is alive, banquo is a threat to him - sees him as an enemy - foreshadows macbeth killing banquo
‘For certain friends that are both his and mine’
Macbeth showing fear about him not wanting crime linked back to him
‘I require clearness’
Quote to show the change in relationship between Lady M and Macbeth to show his power as she now has to ask to speak with him
‘Say to the king, I would attend his leisure’
Rhyming couplets by Lady M showing that it is safer to be dead and that killing duncan has brought no happiness
‘Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy’
Quote to show Macbeth’s dismissal of his wife as he doesn’t incoude her in his plans
‘Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck’
Quote to show that macbeth is mentally trapped - metaphor
‘I am cabin’d, cribb’d, confin’d, bound in’
Quote to show Macbeth has shed blood to be king and will have to shed blood to remain king - his death is the only resolution
‘It will have blood they say: blood will have blood’
Quote to suggest Macbeth will keep killing showing that he is becoming a tyrant
‘We are yet but young in deed’
Macbeths ambition
‘To be thus is nothing but to be safely thus’
Lady Macbeths ambition
‘Noughts had, all spent, where our desires got without content’
Macbeths paranoia
‘O, full of scorpians is my mind, dear wife’
Macbeths paranoia
‘Thou canst not say i did it; never shake thy gory locks at me’
Lennox critises macbeths leadership and kingship
‘Our suffering country, under a hand accurs’d’
Lady M saying macbeth losing sleep is important
‘You lack the season of all natures, sleep’
