MACBETH – ACT III

FRIENEMIES – Scene 1BANQUO’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 – FLIPMACBETH

“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.”

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.”

(Scene 2)(Scene 2)

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”

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.”

THE BANQUETLADY’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!”

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.”

BFFs?

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

MACBETHMACBETH

Malcolm & Donalbain

Fleance

Macduff

“BLOOD WILL HAVE BLOOD”

King Duncan

The GuardsBanquo

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.

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 I-II QUIZ: GREAT analysis, but no quote

references

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.

SAMPLE:

Lady Mac: Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under ‘t.”

SAMPLE:

Lady Mac: Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under ‘t.”

• OTHER CONNECTION: Write down one other quote that this significance relates to from a separate character/scene.

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?

MACBETHMACBETH

Malcolm & Donalbain

Fleance

Macduff

King Duncan

The Guards Banquo

(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?

UPCOMING SCHEDULE

• 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

ACT iv – Graphic novel

• 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!

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?

ACT IV- Graphic Novel

There aren’t enough

honest men to hang all the liars/traitors.

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 downfallSupernatural ElementsConflict (fate, Gods, fortune, circumstance)Revenge FactorsSad ending… duhComic ReliefMain character becomes isolated

(Ambition)

1) _____ “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

https://www.scienceleadership.org/blog/Macbeth_Creative_Project:2

MACBETH: ACT IV, SCENE iii

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.16-20). 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. 133-150)

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)

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.16-20). 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. 133-150)

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)