MACBETH – ACT III
Keeping Track
Copy and complete the table below in order to help you develop notes on Act III.
Try to spot examples of dramatic irony as you go through the table.
(Dramatic Irony: Events/comments are more complicated than the character realises.)
CHARACTER(S)
QUOTATION
I fear/Thou play’dst most foully for’t
Macb. Fail not our feast.
Ban. My Lord, I will not
Upon my head they plac’d a fruitless crown,
And put a barren sceptre in my gripe
I will advise you.
Nought’s had, all’s spent,
Where our desire is got without content:
What’s done is done.
We have scorch’d the snake, not kill’d it.
Terrible dreams…shake us nightly
Make our faces vizards to our hearts,
Disguising what they are.
I am cabin’d, cribb’d, confin’d,
Thou canst not say, I did it: never shake
Thy gory locks at me
This is the very painting of your fear
It will have blood, they say:blood will have blood:
I am in blood
Stepp’d in so far, that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o’er.
Security is mortals’ chiefest enemy.
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MEANING
DRAMATIC
IRONY ?
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MACBETH – ACT IV
Keeping Track
CHARACTER(S)
QUOTATION
MEANING
DRAMATIC
IRONY ?
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MEANING
DRAMATIC
IRONY ?
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Something wicked this way comes.
From this moment
The very firstlings of my heart will be
The firstlings of my hand.
Black Macbeth will seem as pure as snow
MACBETH – ACT V
Keeping Track
CHARACTER(S)
QUOTATION
Out, damn’d spot!
What’s done cannot be undone.
Those he commands move only in command,
Nothing in love:
I have liv’d long enough: my way of life
Is fall’n into the sere, the yellow leaf;
It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
I’gin to be aweary of the sun,
And wish th’estate o’th’world were now undone.
This dead butcher, and his fiend-like Queen
Macbeth Quotations III/IV/V
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