Macbeth Quotations Act 4

Question 1

Act4 Scene1: Second witch: signaling evle to come Macbeths way

Answer 1

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”

Question 2

Act4 Scene1: First witch: do you (Macbeth) want to here this from us or from our master

Answer 2

“Say, if thou’dst rather hear it from our mouths,
Or from our masters?”

Question 3

Act4 Scene: name all the apparitions named by the witches

Answer 3

1st Apparition-An Armed head
2nd Apparition-A Bloody Child
3rd Apparition-A Child Crowned, with A Tree in his hand

Question 3

what does the 1st apparition mean

Answer 3

To fear Macduff the Thane of Fife

Question 4

what does the 3rd apparition mean

Answer 4

That Macbeths downfall will come when great Birnam wood comes up to meet him

Question 4

what does the 2nd apparition mean

Answer 4

That no human born man will ever harm you Macbeth this contradicts the first apparition