Macbeth
Act 3
3:1 King Macbeth has a banquet and invites Banquo, Macduff and others, but it is his plan to kill Banquo on his way to the banquet. Macbeth shares with his wife, his concerns about Banquo, and that he has a plan to take care of him, he hires 3 murderers to kill Banquo for him, promising them high ranking in society. He convinces the murderers that Banquo is their enemy and they need to kill him Macbeth: "know Banquo was ur enemy." Second murderer: true my lord." Macbeth: "so is he mine and in such bloody distance, that every minute of his being trusts against my nearest of life: and though I could with bare faced pleasure sweep him from my sight and bid my will avouch it, yet I must not hope for certain friends that are both his and mine whose loves I may not drop but wail his fall who I myself struck down and thence it is that I to your attendance do make love Masking the business from the common eye for sundry weighty reasons." Second murderer: " we shall my lord perform what you have commanded us.
1:2
A soldier reports to king Duncan about the first battle, and praises Macbeth for his accomplishments. Then Ross reports about the second battle and how they were terribly outnumbered and praises Macbeth once again for not giving up untill the battle was won. He tells the king that the Thane of Cawdor has been found guilty of treason. The king tells Ross to pronounce the Thane of Cawdor's execution and give Macbeth his title.
Scene 4
Duncan asks if the execution the thane of Cawdor is done. Malcolm replies, "yes and it was an educational one." Duncan confesses that he is not a very good judge of character. Duncan: "there's no art to find the minds construction in the face: he was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust. Duncan announces his son Malcolm , prince of Cumberland and therefore hoer to the throne. Macbeth then realizes that if he wants the thrown, he must fight for it. And Duncan announces he is going to visit Macbeth's castle that night.
Act three scene five
Hectate the queen of the witches, is upset at the three wierd sisters for meeting with Macbeth and Banquo, to tell them about their prophecies, without her.
Scene 2
Lady Macbeth admits that she too is suffering from lack of sleep due to fear and guilt, Macbeth says he has even started to envy Duncan because he can sleep peacefully. Lady Macbeth reminds him that they need to hide their feelings at the feast comming up that night. Macbeth tells his wife that something is going to be done about Banquo but does not tell her of his plan. Macbeth: " there's comfort yet they are assailable; then be thou joicund : ere the bat hath flown his cloister 'd flight ; we to black hectate's summons the shard borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, hath rung nights yawning peal, there shall be done a deed of dreadful note." Lady Macbeth "what's to be done?" Macbeth : "be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck, till thou applaud the deed. Come sealing night, scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, and with thy bloody and invisible hand, cancel and tear to pieces that great bond which keeps me pale! Hight thickness, and the crow makes wing to the rocky wood; good things of day begin to droop and drowse, thou marvel'st at my words: but hold these still ; things bad begun to make strong themselves by ill so prithee go with me."
2:2
Lady Macbeth admits that she wasn't strong enough to kill Duncan, because he looked like her father so she used alcohol. Lady Macbeth: "that which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; that what hath quenched them hath given me fire. Lady Macbeth: "Alack I am afraid they have awakend, and ''tis not done: the attempt and not the deed confounds us. Hark I laid the daggers ready; he could not miss em had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done't. After the killing Macbeth yelled lady Macbeth how guilty he feels and how he hard voices and he cannot get them out of his mind. Macbeth: "methought I heard a voice cry sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep." Lady Macbeth: "these deeds must not be thought after these ways; so it will make us mad. Lady Macbeth: "my hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white. I hear a knocking, at the south entry: retire we to our chamber: a little water clears us of this deed." Macbeth: "wake Duncan with the knocking I would thou couldst.!"
Scene 5
Lady Macbeth hears the prophesies through a letter, and knows the only way to get the thrown is to kill the king and Malcolm, so she convinces her husband to kill the king. Lady Macbeth: "What thou wouldst highly that wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false , and yet wouldst wrongly win: thou 'dst have, great Glamis, and that which rather thou dost fear to do. Than wish'st should be undone." Messanger: the king comes here tonight. Lady Macbeth: "Give him tending, he brings gray news." Lady Macbeth puts the plan into action. First she asks the spirits to unsex her so that she can aid her husband in killing the king.
3:6
Lennox suspects that, fleance killed Banquo because he fled, just like it was suspected that Duncan's sons killed their father because they fled too. Macduff lives in discrace, he has went to England to help Malcolm get military help to defeat king Macbeth.
Scene 7
Macbeth is contemplating weather or not he should kill the king , he considers how the king has honoured him in the past and how he is his host right now and how he is a good cousin and tells his wife he cannot do it. Macbeth: "we will proceed no further in this business: he hath honoured me of late; and I hath bought golden opinions from all sorts of people, whit he would be worn now in their newest gloss, not cast aside so soon." His wife reasons with him appealing to his manliness in an attempt to convince him otherwise. She succeeds and the plan is laid out between the two of them. Lady Macbeth: when Duncan is asleep- whereto the rather shall his days hard journey soundly invite him- his two chamber lands will I with wine and wassel so convince, that that memory, the warder of the brain shall be a fume, and the reciept of reason a limbeck only: when in swinish sleep their dreanched nature's lie as in a death , what cannot you and I perform upon the ungaurded Duncan? What not put upon his spongy officers who shall bear the guilt of our great quell?
Scene3
Macbeth not trusting anyone, sends a third murderer to join the other two. First murderer: "but who did bid thee join us." Third murderer: "Macbeth" Second murderer: "he needs not our mistrust; since he delivers our offices, and what we have to do, to the direction just." First murderer: "than stand with us, the west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. Now spures the lated traveler space to gain the timely in ; and near approaches the subject of our watch." First murderer: "stand to it " Banquo: it will be rain to-night." First murderer: "let it come down." Banquo: "oh treachery,! Fly good fleance, Fly! Fly! Fly! Thou mayst revenge o slave." First murderer: "well let's away and say how much is done."
Scene 4
Ross and his father are talking about the killing of the king, and how it is rather strange. Ross asks who killed the king. And Macduff says the guards, but Ross says what good would it do then? And Macduff suggests that maybe Malcolm and Donalbain did it and he suspects this because they fled right after they heard. Ross says it is still against nature and they decide to go to the kings burial.
Act 2
Scene 1 They are talking about the setting night time precisely 12:00. Banquo: "how goes the night boy?" Fleance: "The moon is down and I have not heard The clock." Banquo: and she goes down at 12:00. Banquo tells Macbeth the king was so happy after the lovely feast and nights lodging they provided that he gave Lady Macbeth a diamond. Then banquo tells Macbeth he had dreamt about the wierd sisters. He asks Macbeth if he has been thinking about them. Macbeth lies and says he has not thought of them. Macbeth: "I think of them not, yet when we can entreat an hour to serve, we would spend it in some words upon that business, if you would grant the time. Banquo says yes and then clearly states his desire to keep his allegiance clear. Banquo: "in seeking to augment it, but still keep my bosom franchised and allegiance clear, I shall be councell'd Macbeth's Siloquy: "Is this a dagger which I see before me? The handle toward my hand? Come let me clutch thee. I have thee not yet I see thee still. Art thou not fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight? Or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat oppressed brain? I see thee yet in form as palpable as this which I draw. Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going; and such an instrument I was to use to use. Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, or else worth all the rest : I see thee still; and on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood , which was not so before. There's no such thing: it is the bloody business which informs thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one half world nature seems dead and wicked dreams abuse the curtain'd sleep ; witchcraft celebrates pale hectare's offerings ; and withers murder , alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf whose howl's his watch , thus with his stealthy pace, with tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design moves like a ghost thou sure and firm set earth, hear not my steps, which way they walk for fear thy very stones prate of my whereabouts, and take the present horror from the time, which now suits with it. Whiles I threat he lives: words to the heart of deeds too cold breath gives. I go and it is done; the bell invites me. Hear it not Duncan, for it is a knell that summonses you unto heaven or unto hell.
scene 4
The King has a banquet, he asks the murders if they killed Banquo. Their answer is yes, and then he asks about fleance. Murder: "most loyal sir Fleance has escaped." Macbeth: "then comes my fit again ,I had else been perfect whole as the marble, sounded as the rock as broad and general as the casting air ;but now I am cabbin'd and cribb'd confined found in to saucy doubts and fears but Banquo's safe." Murderwe: ay my good Lord safe in a ditch he bides, with 20 trenched gashes on his head the least a death to nature." Macbeth: "thanks for that." Macbeth makes a toast to Banquo. Macbeth: "sweet rememberancer! Now good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both! Lenox offers a seat to Macbeth, but the king sees Banquo's ghost in it. Lennox: "here my good lord, what is't that moves your highness ?" Macbeth: "which of you hath done this." Lords: "what my good lord?" Macbeth: "thou canst say I did it: never shake thy Gorey locks at me". Ross: Gentlemen rise; his highness is not well. Lady Mac Beth sit worth friends my Lord is often thus and hath been from his youth, pray you keep seat the fit is momentary, upon a thought he will again be well. If much you not him you shall offend him, and extend his passion feed and regard him not. Are you a man? Lady McBeth appeals to his manliness, but this does not work. So Lady Macbeth talks to him privately, this succeeds in calming him down. Macbeth returns to the banquet table, and again makes a toast to Banquo. I soon as the toast is said Banquo's ghost returns. Macbeth: "I do forget, do not muse at me my most worthy friends I have a strange infirmity which is nothing to those that know me well, come love and health to all then I'll sit down. Give me some wine fill full I drink to the general joy of the whole table, and to our dear friend Banquo whom we miss, would he were here." the ghost returns Macbeth sees the ghost and again gets upset. Macbeth: "Avaunt! And quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless ; thy blood is cold ; thou hast no speculation In those eyes which thou dost glare with. Lady Macbeth: "think of this good peers, but a thing of custom: ''tis no other; only it spoils the pleasure of the time." Lady McBeth becomes fearful that McBeth will tell their secret, so she sends everyone away, and talks to Macbeth alone once again. And he says he saw Banquo's ghost and tells her he is upset that Macduff for not coming.
Scene 6
The first thing we see in this scene is dramatic irony, because king Duncan expresses delight in their beautiful castle which is also the castle that he is going to die in, but he does not know this only the readers do. Duncan: "this castle hath a pleasant seat; the air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle senses." Duncan compliments lady Macbeth the king asks where Macbeth is and lady Macbeth says: "your servants ever have theirs themselves and what is theirs, in contempt to make their audit at your highness pleasure, still to return your own."
2:3
The porter imagines he is the gatekeeper of hell , the people he imagined to be knocking are a man named Beelzebub, who was a farmer who hanged himself on the expectation of plenty, and faith an equivocator that could swear in both the scales against iether scale: who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven. Lennox awakes. Macduff asks Macbeth if the king has stored and Macbeth says not yet. Macduff tells Macbeth he is supposed to wake the king so Macbeth takes him to the king. Macduff cries oh horror horror! When he sees the king has been murdered and refers to him as the lords anointed temple, saying someone stole themselves the life. O' the building. Macduff: "approach the chamber, and destroy your sight with a new Gorgon: do not bid me speak; see and then speak yourselves. Macbeth and Lennox: "awake!" "Awake"! "Ring the alarum bell, murder and treason." Lady Macbeth hearing what has happend faints and Macbeth kills the guards in a loyal rage. Macbeth: "o yet I do repent of my furry that I did kill them." Macduff: "wherefore did you so?" Macbeth: " who can be wise, amazed, temperate, and furious, loyal and neutral all in a moment? No man the expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser reason. Here lay Duncan his silver skin laced with his golden blood. And his gashed stabs looked like a breech in nature, for ruins wasteful entrance: there were the murderers steeped in the colours of their trade, their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore: who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make's love known." Malcolm and Donalbain wake up and realize what has happend and fear for their lives, so they run away Malcolm goes to England, and Donalbain goes to Ireland.
Act 1:3
The witches talk to Macbeth and Banquo addressing them with their prophesies. Banquo notices Macbeth is shocked. Banquo: "Good sir why do you start and seem to fear things that do sound so fair?" "I the name of truth, are ye fantastical; or that indeed which outwardly ye show ? "My noble partner you greet with present grace and great prediction of noble having and of royal hope, that he seems rapt withal ; to me you speak not: if you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, your favours nor your hate."Then the witches give prophesies for Banquo. First witch: "Lesser than Macbeth and greater." Second witch: "not so happy yet much happier." Third witch: "thou shalt get kings, though thou be none." "So hail Macbeth and Banquo." Macbeth questions the witches. Macbeth: "stay you imperfect speakers, tell me more: by sinel's death I know I am Thane of Glamis; but how of cawdor ? The Thane of Cawdor lives, a prosperous gentlemen; and to be king stands not within the prospect of belief , no more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence you owe this strange intelligence ? Or why upon this blasted Heath you stop our way with such prophetic greeting? Speak I charge you." After this the witches vanish and Banquo and Macbeth are left there alone. It is then that Ross and Angus bestow the title of Thane of Cawdor upon Macbeth and place the former thane's robes upon his back. Banquo warns Macbeth about the witches prophesies. Banquo: "that trusted home, might yet enkindle you unto the crown, besides the Thane of Cawdor. But ''tis strange: the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest truffles, betray us in deepest consequence." "Cousins a word I pray you."
Act 1:1
We meet the three witches or the three weird sisters, they are talking about meeting with Macbeth after the battle, to tell him and Banquo about their prophesies. From this scene, we get our theme appearance versus reality in the quote, "Fair is foul and foul is fair."
