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Macbeth Acts I-III Review- 10 Points
Using your memory of the play and the provided texts, complete the following organizer as a
review of the play so far. You may simply bullet the information, but be sure to add as much
detail as possible. These will be used to review for our upcoming test, so please work hard! We
will devote today’s class period to working on them, and they will be due on MONDAY. Use
your materials from home to complete this review over the weekend. Please see Mr. Oswin if
you need to borrow a text. If this assignment is not completely done when it is checked, you will
not receive credit.
1) Explain who each of the following characters are, AND if they have any significant shifts
in Acts I-III. Bullets are fine for this portion.
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
The Witches
Banquo
Duncan
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2.) Explain in your own words what occurs in each of the acts of the play. To help you get
started, I have given a “title” to each of the acts (these are not real titles).- again, bullets are
fine.
Act I: “Prophecies and Temptation”
Act II: “The Night of the Murder”
Act III: “Will You Be at the Banquet?”
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3.) For each of the following quotes, identify who said it, in what context it was said, and what it
shows us about a particular character or theme.
“Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair”
Speaker:
When/Where in the story it was said:
What it shows us in the story:
“Methought I heard a voice cry: ‘Sleep no more, Macbeth does murder sleep… Glamis
hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no
more.’”
Speaker:
When/Where in the story it was said:
What it shows us in the story:
“False face must hide what false heart doth know”
Speaker:
When/Where in the story it was said:
What it shows us in the story:
“I am in blood stepped so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go
o’er”
Speaker:
When/Where in the story it was said:
What it shows us in the story: