Macbeth Quotes - Scene 1 Act 3

Question 1

Witches foreshadow Macbeth’s suffering

Answer 1

I’ll drain him dry as hay, sleep shall neither night nor day hang upon his penthouse lid. He shall live a man forbid, weary sev’ nights, nine times nine shall he dwindle, peak and pine”

Question 2

Banquo mistrusts the witches

Answer 2

Oftentimes to win us into our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles to betray’s in deepest consequence”

Question 3

Macbeth trusts the Witches

Answer 3

“Two truths are told as happy prologues to the swelling act of the imperial theme”
“This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, why hath it given me earnest of success”

Question 4

Past present future

Answer 4

“All hail Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!”
All hail Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!”
“All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!”

Question 5

Macbeth’s interest in the prophecy

Answer 5

“Good sir, why do you start and seem to fear things that do sound so fair?”
“Stay you imperfect speakers, tell me more”
“My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten”

Question 6

Future kings

Answer 6

“Your children shall be kings”
“You shall be king”

Question 7

Foreshadows Macbeth’s actions

Answer 7

“Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?”

Question 8

Killing Duncan

Answer 8

“Why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature? Presesnt fears are less than horribble imaginings. My thought, whose murder is yet but fantastical”