DioGuardi/10th Grade
Macbeth
Act I Scenes 4-5
Scene 4
1. “Is execution done on Cawdor?” (iv.1)
2. “He was a gentleman on whom I built/An absolute trust.” (iv.15-16)
3. “More is thy due than more than all can pay.” (iv. 23)
4. “…and our duties/Are to your throne and state children and servants,/Which do
but what they should by doing everything/Safe toward your love and honor.” (iv.27-30)
5. “We will establish our estate upon/Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name
hereafter/The Prince of Cumberland;” (iv.43-45)
6. “The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step
On which I must fall down or else o’erleap,
For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires;
Let not light see my black and deep desires.
The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be
Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.” (iv.55-60)
Scene 5
1. What does Macbeth’s letter to his wife reveal about their relationship?
2. “Yet do I fear thy nature;/It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness/To catch the
nearest way.” (v.16-17)
3. “What thou wouldst/highly,/That wouldst thou holily;” (v.20-22)
4. To what do the pronouns ‘it’ (v.26) and ‘that’ (v.27) refer? (What does Lady Macbeth
say that her husband fears to do?)
5. “Hie thee hither,/That I may pour my spirits in thine ear/And chastise with the
valor of my tongue/All that impedes thee from the golden round,/Which fate and
metaphysical aid doth seem/To have crowned withal.” (v.28-33)
6. Why does Lady Macbeth say that the messenger “brings great news” (v.44)
7. Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy (v.45-61).
8. “I feel now/The future in the instant.” (v.65-66)