Macbeth Weather Quotes
BY: ALEX BAILEY, CODY HUCKSTEP, JOSH
BLACKBURN, TREVOR SEARS
Act 1
Scene 1 – Line 2-4
First Witch
“When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”
 The ominous weather is a sign of evil and mischievous deeds, so when such weather
happens again the witches will most likely be a part of it.
 Scene 1 – Line 11
All witches
“Hover through the fog and filthy air.”
Scene 2 – Line 26-27
Captain
“Shipwracking storms and direful thunder break, So from that spring whence comfort seemed to
come
Discomfort swells.”
 The witches are ghostly figures that shift through fog and cloudy areas seemingly
appear out of nowhere. Spring used to comfort the Captain, but now discomfort is
building up upon him due to severe storms and ocean conditions.
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Act 1
 Scene 3 – Line 11
Second Witch
“I’ll give thee a wind.”
 The second witch is giving the first a wind to sail her sieve on
 Scene 3 – Line 79-82
Banquo
“The earth hath bubbles as the water has,
And these are of them. Whither are they vanished?”
Macbeth
“Into the air, and what seemed corporal melted
As breath into the wind. Would they had stayed!”
 Macbeth and Banquo are astonished that people could just disappear in the
wind as if human bubbles popping and being gone from sight permanently.
Act 1
 Scene 6 – Line 3-5
Banquo
“This guest of summer
The temple-haunting martlet, does approve
By his loved mansionry that the heaven’s breath”

Banquo explains how the castle is worthy of the kings stay because it looks like a place from
heaven.
 Scene 6 – Line 9
Banquo
“Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed
The air is delicate.”

Banquo was saying that the castle was even pleasant and safe enough even for children to stay.
 Scene 7 – Line 23
Macbeth
“Upon the sightless couriers of the air”

Macbeth was saying that if he committed the murder of king he would've be damned.
Act 3
o Act 3 scene 3 Line 16: It will rain tonight
o Banquo predicts bad weather as the murderers are about to kill
him and Fleance
 Act 3 Scene 4 Line 23: as broad and general as the
casing wind
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Macbeth was saying that if he wasn’t threated by emiems and
for of fear and doubt he wouldve been a wholesome perosn
Act 4
 Macbeth Scene 1 Line 86 : “ That I may tell pale-hearted fear it
lies, and sleep in spite of thunder”
 Macbeth was starting to become nervous about hiring the
murders to kill Banquo and Fleance that it was hard for him to
sleep
 Ross Scene 3 Line 192: “ But I have words that would be howled
out in the desert air, where hearing should not latch them”
 Ross was saying that he had secrets that aren’t meant to be out
in the public.