macbeth act 3-end scenes Flashcards
banquo thinks macbeth played foully for the throne, usage of the royal we, macbeth is trying to figure out his whereabouts and banquo tells him he’ll be back in time for the banquet, getting better at lying when he talks about malcolm and donalbain as “bloody cousins”, convinces murderers to kill banquo and fleance
act 3 scene 1
lady macbeth checks in on macbeth, tells him “what’s done is done”, macbeth worries of the future and they both envy duncan who is finally free in his death, he tells her he has a mind full of scorpions, calls for seeling light to conceal his deeds, doesn’t tell her what he did
act 3 scene 2
murderers are accompanied by a third, they kill banquo but fleance escapes
act 3 scene 3
banquet scene, macbeth isn’t happy that fleance isn’t dead but tolerates it, hallucinates banquo’s ghost, to which lady macbeth tells the lords it’s just his fits from childhood and he regains composure until he sees banquo again after making a toast to him , becomes fearful and guilty and lady macbeth mocks him and tells the lords to leave, who have since lost their trust in him, he’s questioning why macduff turned down the invitation and resolves to see the witches, says he can’t turn back now
act 3 scene 4
scene with hecate, probably not written by shakespeare, she’s upset with the witches for giving macbeth prophecies without her, tells them to meet her in the morning where they’ll ultimately lead him to his demise
act 3 scene 5
Lennox and other lord, he’s suspicous of how the murderers of duncan and banquo so convientntly left, doesn’t trust macbeth, obtains news from the other lord that macduff went to england
act 3 scene 6
witches cast spell around the cauldron (double double toil and trouble) and hecate’s like YAY, macbeth comes to see the witches, and they show him 3 appirations: an armed head which tells him to beware macduff, the second is a bloody child saying no man born of woman will hurt macbeth, the third is a crowned child who says he’s fine until birnam wood comes to dunisanne, macbeth is like ok but will banquo’s descendants be in the the throne and they’re like UGH fine but you’re kys and he sees an appirations of 8 kings following banquo’s ghost, and he sees fleance and he’s like NOO and then the witches are like peace loser and then lennox tells macbeth macduff went to england and he’s like WHAT and vows to kill everyone who traces him in his line
act 4 scene 1
lady macduff is upset about her husband leaving, ross tells her he’s noble, wise, and judicious, she tells her son that macduff is dead and was a traitor and liar but he teases her and knows she’s wrong, a messanger advises lady macduff to flee with her family but she says she’s done nothing wrong, and then then the murderers come and kills everyone
act 4 scene 2
macduff tells malcolm of the treachery in scotland, but malcolm is distrustful and argues his lust and greed will not make him fit for a king- macduff is like nah lots of girls with do it with you but he has nothing to say about the greed and wants to kill himself and Malcolm is like WHOAA NO I WAS KIDDING and he loses his suspicion, they are assembling the army with siward and a doctor tells about how king edward cures people through touch, a gift bestowed on true kings, ross arrives to tell macduff about his children when he switches sides and macduff is upset but argues he must feel as a man when malcolm tells him to dispute it as such and comforts him
act 4 scene 3
lady macduff’s gentlewoman and the doctor see lady macbeth sleepwalk and talk, as she continuously tries to wash blood off her hands, she repeats past conversations she’d had with macbeth and even subconsciously has some knowledge through her confusion about banquo and macduff, despite not being told anything
act 5 scene 1
some of the lords call macbeth mad as the english forces led by siward, macduff, and malcolm move up to dunisanne, various lords discuss this amongst themselves
act 5 scene 2
macbeth is a little shocked at seeing the soldiers, he gets upset at anyone who talks more about attack, continuously reassuring himself that he can’t be tainted with fear, but still demands his armor by Seyton, and the doctor tells macbeth he can’t help lady macbeth with her sleep troubles
act 5 scene 3
malcolm, macduff, and scottish lords chop down trees from birnam wood to use as camouflages and shadow
act 5 scene 4
Macbeth continues to stand his ground against the siege. He has ‘almost forgot the taste of fears’. Seyton reports that Lady Macbeth is dead. Macbeth reflects on the pointless nature of life being only ‘a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing’. A messenger informs Macbeth that he has seen Birnam Wood moving towards Dunsinane hill. Macbeth is unnerved that the prophecy has come true but vows he will die fighting.
act 5 scene 5
Malcolm’s army have arrived outside the castle. They throw down their camouflaging branches to reveal themselves. Malcolm talks through the battle plan against the ‘tyrant’s power’.
act 5 scene 6
