Macbeth Quotes - Act 1, Scene 3

Question 1

Macbeth mirrors the Witches

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Banquo questions if the Witches are even alive

Answer 2

‘Live you, or are you aught

That man may question?’ (Banquo)

Question 3

Banquo questions if the Witches are women

Answer 3

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

Question 4

The Witches say there first prophecy for Macbeth

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

The Witches prophecy for Banquo

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Ross has a message for Macbeth

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Macbeth finds out that the Witches were right

Answer 7

(Aside) ‘Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor:

The greatest is behind’ (MacBeth)

Question 8

Macbeth questions whether his new title is a good thing

Answer 8

Aside) ‘This supernatural soliciting

Cannot be ill, cannot be good’ (MacBeth)

Question 9

Macbeth thinks that he will become king without doing any thing

Answer 9

‘If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me

Without my stir’ (MacBeth)