MACBETH – ACT III
FRIENEMIES – Scene 1
BANQUO’S SUSPICION
“Thou hast it now – King, Cawdor,
Glamis, all as the Weird Women
promised, and I fear thou played’st
most foully for ‘t… May they not be my
oracles as well, and set me up in hope?”
MACBETH’S SOLILOQUY
“To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus. Our fears in
Banquo stick deep, and in his royalty of nature reigns that which
would be feared… there is none but he whose being I do fear”
“Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown and put a
barren scepter in my grip… no son of mine succeeding…
put rancors in the vessel of my peace only for THEM.”
FRAME OF MIND – FLIP
MACBETH
“man” argument w/ murderers
“We have scorched the snake,
not killed it… O full of scorpions
is my mind, dear wife!”
“Better be with the dead,
whom we, to gain our peace,
have sent to peace…Duncan is
in his grave. After life’s fitful
fever he sleeps well.”
“There shall be done a deed of
dreadful note… be innocent of
the knowledge.”
“Come seeling night… and with
thy bloody and invisible hand
cancel and tear to pieces that
great bond which keeps me
pale.”
(Scene 2)
LADY MACBETH
“Not’s had, all’s spent, where our
desire is got without content. Tis
safer to be that which we destroy
than by destruction dwell in
doubtful joy.”
“Things without all remedy
should be without regard.
What’s done is done.”
FRIENEMIES – Scene 1-4
MURDERERS CONVERSATION:
MAC: “Know that it was he, in the times of past, which
held you so under fortune… do you find your patience so
predominant in your nature that you can let this go?”
MURDERERS: “We are men, my liege!”
MAC: “Ay, in the catalogue you go
for men as hounds and greyhounds,
mongrels… are clept all by the name
of dogs”
Which kind
are you
gonna be?
FRIENEMIES – Scene 1-4
BANQUO: “O treachery! Fly
good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! Thou
mayst revenge!”
MACBETH: “But now I am cabined, cribbed,
confined, bound in to saucy doubts and fears.”
“METAPHORICAL PLAY ON WORDS”
“There the grown serpent lies.
The worm that’s fled hath nature
that in time will venom breed.”
THE BANQUET
LADY’S EXCUSE/COVER:
TO THE LORDS: “My lord is often thus and hath been from
his youth… the fit is momentary.”
TO MACBETH: “O, proper stuff! This the very painting of
your fear. This is the air-drawn dagger, which you said led
you to Duncan!”
BFFs?
MACBETH’S GUILT:
“What man dare, I dare. Approach
thou like the rugged Russian bear,
the armed rhinocerous, or the
Hyrcan tiger; take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
shall never tremble… If trembling I inhabit then, protest me
the baby of a girl! Hence horrible shadow! Unreal
mockery!... Why so, being gone, I am man again.”
THE NEW PLAN
“Blood will have blood they say… I am
stepped in so far that should I wade no
more, returning were as tedious as go
o’er… we are yet but young in deed.”
Meet the Weird Sisters again
“BLOOD
WILL HAVE BLOOD”
The Guards
King Duncan
Malcolm &
Donalbain
MACBETH
Banquo
Fleance
Macduff
WRATH OF HECATE
“Meet me i’ th’ morning. Thither he will
come to know his destiny… and that,
distilled by magic sleights, shall raise such
artificial sprites as by the strength of their
illusion shall draw him on to his
confusion. He shall spurn fate, scorn
death, and bear his hopes ‘bove wisdom,
grace, and fear. And you all know,
security is mortals’ cheifest enemy”
HELP FROM AFAR
 A now-suspicious country
 Macduff goes to England for help… why there?
ACT III SUMMARY
ACT I-II QUIZ:
GREAT Open-Ended Responses
STUDENT 1: Lady Macbeth says "a little water clears us of this deed" meaning she
says just go take a bath and you'll be clean from all the blood. Lady Macbeth doesn't
view Duncan's death as a big deal. Macbeth says "will all great Neptune's ocean wash
this blood clean from my hand? No, this hanD will rather the multidunous seas
incarnadine, making the green one red." Macbeth is more freaked out about killing
Duncan than Lady Macbeth is. He says not even the greatest of Neptune's oceans can
wash this blood off of my hands. He also states that there is so much blood that it
would turn a green ocean red because his hands are covered in the king's blood.
That's how their reactions are different
STUDENT 2:
The main difference in the reactions of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth
to the murder was, Lady Macbeth could careless and Macbeth was almost
heartbroken. Lady Macbeth was overall telling Macbeth just to the wash the blood
off his hands and that will make what he did acceptable, showing that she is very
heartless. Macbeth was overall saying how nothing that he can do will make him
murdering Duncan alright, not even if he were to wash his hands in the royal seas.
Showing that Macbeth still has a heart and even though he killed the king and got
what he wanted he has to live with his decision for the rest of his life.
ACT I-II QUIZ:
GREAT analysis, but no quote references
STUDENT 3: Lady Macbeth doesn't care and is just like get
over it while Macbeth seems to be traumatized by it and
wants his soul and body to be replenished. Lady Macbeth
has always just wanted to get over it and is making it
seem like the murder was nothing but a little thing.
Macbeth on the other hand is losing his manhood and
confidence not only from lady Macbeth but from his
nervousness of the murder.
ACT III Quote Analysis
• EXPLANATION: Write down an explanation
of who/what/where/when
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• SIGNIFICANCE: Write down why it’s
significant to the overall story. Think
character changes/development, reoccurring
thematic ideas, conflicts, turning points,
foreshadowing, flaws, etc.
• OTHER CONNECTION: Write
down one other quote that this
significance relates to from a
separate character/scene.
SAMPLE:
Lady Mac: Look like the
innocent flower, but be
the serpent under ‘t.”
ACT III Quote Analysis
• CONTEXT: Banquo is suspicious that Macbeth did something terrible
(“foul”) to become king. He is also wondering if the witches are setting
him to be tempted into doing bad things as well.
• SIGNIFICANCE: People are now becoming suspicious that Macbeth is
behind Duncan’s murder, not Malcolm and Donalbain, which ruins his
“story.” It also makes us wonder if the witches are really predicting a
characters’ fates or are they simply tempting them with thoughts? Who is
really at fault here?
• RELATED SCENES/QUOTES:
• Macduff is suspicious as well – he refuses to go to Scone to see
Macbeth get crowned and he flees to England to prepare for war.
• Banquo: “Often times to win us to our harm, the instruments of
darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, only to betray ‘s.”
ACT III Quote Analysis
• SIGNIFICANCE?
• CONNECTIONS?
• SIGNIFICANCE?
• CONNECTIONS?
ACT III Quote Analysis
• SIGNIFICANCE?
• CONNECTIONS?
• SIGNIFICANCE?
• CONNECTIONS?
ACT III Quote Analysis
• SIGNIFICANCE?
• CONNECTIONS?
• SIGNIFICANCE?
• CONNECTIONS?
“BLOOD
WILL HAVE BLOOD THEY SAY…
WE ARE YET BUT YOUNG IN DEED”
The Guards
King Duncan
Malcolm &
Donalbain
Banquo
MACBETH
Fleance
Macduff
(Macduff’s whole
Family in Act IV)
ACT III Quote Analysis
• SIGNIFICANCE?
• CONNECTIONS?
Macbeth
1. Where is everyone?
• Malcolm
• Donalbain
• MacDuff
• Fleance
2. State of Scotland?
3. Major players in
England?
THINK: Who was this play written for? Why did
Shakespeare choose these particular settings?
• TODAY: Read Act IV, scene 1-2
• TOMORROW: Review Act III and Act IV
• MONDAY: OFF
• TUESDAY-THURSDAY: Perform Act V; Assign Journal
• FRIDAY: Movie
• FOLLOWING WEEK: Review & Test; Scene Re-Write
Project
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
• Read Act IV, scenes 1 and 2,
in the graphic novel version
of Macbeth individually.
• Make sure that you answer
the comprehension
questions as you read.
• DUE today!
ACT iv – Graphic novel
 Hecate initially said that they will…
 “draw him on to his confusion…security is mortal’s
chiefest enemy.”
New predictions:
ACT IV- Graphic Novel
 Hecate initially said that they will…
 “draw him on to his confusion…security is mortal’s
chiefest enemy.”
BONUS PREDICTION? (He got greedy!)
ACT IV- Graphic Novel
 LADY MACDUFF & HER SON
 What news does she receive?
 What does she argue about with her son?
 What happens at the end? Why didn’t she leave?
There aren’t
enough
honest men to
hang all the
liars/traitors.
ACT IV- Graphic Novel
OVER IN ENGLAND
• MacDuff comes to England in hopes of getting Malcolm
to return to Scotland and take over/fight Macbeth.
 MALCOLM’S RETURN
• “This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues, was
once honest. You have loved him well. He hath not
touched you yet… You may, through me, have wisdom to
offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb to appease an
angry god.”
ACT IV- Graphic Novel
MALCOM: TEST OF LOYALTY
• Macduff wants Malcolm to take back his throne, but Malcolm
says he’ll…
• Take all the women and daughters for my lust
• Take the lords’ lands and wealth
• Confound all unity on earth!
• MACDUFF’S REACTION: “O Scotland! You’re not fit to live
let alone be king. All hope for us ends here.”
• SINCE MACDUFF IS TRUE TO SCOTLAND, Malcolm then
takes it all back and admits to testing him.
WAR APPROACHES
• Old Siward and King Edward (Eng.) have 10,000 men
ACT IV- Graphic Novel
MACDUFF’S “PRETTY CHICKENS”
• Ross delivers the news
• “Your castle is surprised, your wife and babes savagely
slaughtered. To relate the manner were on the quarry of
these murdered deed to add the death of you.”
• Reactions
• Malcolm: “Let’s make medicines of our great revenge to
cure this deadly grief… dispute it like a man.”
• Macduff: “I shall do so, but I must also feel it as a
man. I cannot but remember such things were that were
most precious to me.
• Malcolm: “Let grief convert to anger! Blunt not the heart;
enrage it… This tune goes manly.”
ACT IV- Graphic Novel
 “A man’s worth is no
greater than the worth
of his ambition.”
– Marcus Aurelius
 “Ambition is like love –
impatient of both delays
and rivals.”
– Buddah
 How have Macbeth and Lady
Macbeth changed since the
beginning? What is Macbeth’s
hamartia?
 One of the major themes of Macbeth
is that “appearances can be
deceiving.” What are some
examples of where that is true from
the play?
 What are the different views of being “manly” throughout
the play? Do they fit with today’s standards?
MACBETH:
 “We still have judgement here…bloody instructions, which
being taught, return to plague the inventor. This
even-handed justice commends th’ ingredience of our
poisoned chalice to our own lips.” (pg. 39)
 “To know my deed ‘twere best not know myself.” (pg. 61)
 Me thought I heard a voice cry “Sleep no more! Macbeth
does murder sleep!” (pg. 57)
LADY MACBETH:
 “These deeds must not be thought after these ways; so, it will
make us mad.” (pg. 57)
 “Go get some water and wash this filthy witness from your
hand… a little water clears us of this deed. How
easy is it, then!” (pg. 59)
 Drama or literary work in which a noble/admirable
character falls from a position of prominence to disaster
or death.. Potential for greatness, but falters due to
personal errors or misjudgment
 Tragic Flaw: weakness that leads to downfall
 Supernatural Elements
 Conflict (fate, Gods, fortune, circumstance)
 Revenge Factors
 Sad ending… duh
 Comic Relief
 Main character becomes isolated
(Ambition)
_____ “Often times, to win us to our harm, the instruments of
darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray ‘s in
deepest consequence.” – Banquo
2) _____“There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face. He’s a
man on whom I built an absolute trust.” – Duncan
3) _____ “Yet I do fear thy nature; it is too full of the milk of human
kindness to catch the nearest way…I may pour my spirits in thine ear
and chastise with the valor of my tongue.” – Lady Macbeth
4) _____ “Look like th’ innocent flower, but be the serpent under ‘t.” –
Lady Macbeth
5) _____ “Where we are, there’s daggers in men’s smiles. The near in
blood, the nearer bloody.” – Malcolm/Donalbain
6) _____ “Me thought I heard a voice cry “Sleep no more! Macbeth does
murder sleep!” – Macbeth
7) _____ “A dagger of the mind, a false creation proceeding from the
heat-opressed brain.” - Macbeth
1)
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MACBETH: ACT IV,
SCENE iii
1.
Malcolm says, “I am young, but something you may deserve of him through me, and
wisdom to offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb to appease an angry god” (IV.iii.1620). Explain what Malcolm is worried about?
2.
How does Malcolm describe his predicted reign as king on page 143 and 145?
Write down at least two lines. Why does he describe himself to Macduff like this?
3.
Macduff seems to make excuses for Malcolm to being with, but then change his
mind. How does Macduff react to these descriptions in the end (IV.iii.?
4.
Why does Malcolm say he retracts all of those earlier descriptions? (IV.iii. 133150)
5
Who is Siward and what is he doing as we speak?
6
What gift does the King of England possess (IV.iii. 170-181)? Explain it.
7
After talking in circles for some time, Ross says, “Let not your ears despise my
tongue forever” (IV.iii.231-2). What devastating news does Ross bring Macduff?
8
Of the devastating news that Macduff receives, Malcolm tells him to “Dispute it
like a man” (IV.iii.259). What does Macduff mean when he replies, “I shall do so,
but I must also feel it as a man?” (IV.iii. 260-1)