Macbeth Act 1, Scene 3 Quotes

Question 1

When Macbeth says something similar to the witches lines

Answer 1

‘So foul and fair a day I have not seen’ (MacBeth)

Question 2

Banquo questions if the witches are supernatural

Answer 2

‘Live you, or are you aught
That man may question?’ (Banquo)

Question 3

Banquo wonders if the witches are men or women or something else

Answer 3

‘you should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so’ (Banquo)

Question 4

Macbeth is being prophesised to be the thane of cawdor and eventually the king

Answer 4

‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis.’
‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor.’
‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, that shalt be king hereafter.’ (Witches)

Question 5

Banquo has been told his descendants will be kings and he will be greater than Macbeth

Answer 5

‘Lesser than MacBeth, and greater.’
‘Not so happy, yet much happier.’
‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.’ (Witches)

Question 6

Macbeth is now the thane of Cawdor after he was prophesised to be

Answer 6

‘He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor’ (Ross)

Question 7

Macbeths first aside

Answer 7

(Aside) ‘Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor:
The greatest is behind’ (MacBeth)

Question 8

Macbeth knows the witches were right and they are not good

Answer 8

(Aside) ‘This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good’ (MacBeth)

Question 9

Macbeth knows he won’t be king if he doesn’t act

Answer 9

‘If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me
Without my stir’ (MacBeth)