1. Macbeth
Acts III & IV
by Shakespeare

2. Act III

3. “I fear / Thou play’dst most foully for’t” (III.i.2-3).
-Banquo about Macbeth becoming king
(Suspicious)

4. “To be thus is nothing, /But to be safely thus”(III.i.48-49).
-Macbeth wanting to make sure his position as king is safe

5. “And thence it is / That I to your assistance do make love, /Masking the business from the common eye” (III.i ).
-Macbeth to the Murderers
(Theme?)

6. “Come on; / Gentle my lord, sleek o’ver your rugged looks / Be bright and jovial among guests tonight” (III.ii.27-29).
-Lady Macbeth
Masking Theme

7. “Make our faces vizards to our hearts, / Disguising what they are” (III.ii.33-34).
-Macbeth
(about dinner)
Mask theme.

8. “But Banquo’s safe?” (III.iv.24)
-Macbeth
Irony!

9. “Are you a man?” (III.iv.57).
-Lady Macbeth to Macbeth after he sees the ghost of Banquo

10. -Macbeth to Lady Macbeth
“[How can] you behold such sights / And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks/ When mine is blanch’d with fear” (III.iv ).
-Macbeth to Lady Macbeth
Theme?

11. Act IV

12. Act IV, scene i:
Macbeth visits
Weird Sisters again.

13. Three more prophecies:
Armed head: “Beware Macduff…” (IV.i. 71)
Bloody child: “…none of whom woman born should harm Macbeth” (IV.i.81)
Crowned child w/ a tree: “Macbeth shall never banquished be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him” (IV. i ).

14. Then, he wants to know about Banquo---
Sees eight kings, the last with a mirror, followed by Banquo’s ghost.

15. Biblical Allusion. Mask theme.
“Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. / Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, / Yet grace must still look so” (Iv. ii ). - Malcolm about Macbeth
Biblical Allusion.
Mask theme.

16. -Macduff after hearing about his family Bird imagery Gender theme
“All my pretty ones? / Did you say all? O hell-kite! All? / What, all my pretty chickens, and their dam, / At one fell swoop?” (IV. ii ).
-Macduff after hearing about his family
Bird imagery
Gender theme

17. Act IV, scene ii- Lady Macduff and family murdered.
Son speaks to mother about his philosophy of virtue: “Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang them up” (IV.ii ).

18. Act IV, scene iii—
Macduff and Malcolm unite forces in war against Macbeth: “Old Siward w/ ten thousand men / Already at a point, was setting forth. / Now we’ll together; and the chance of goodness. / Be like our warranted quarrel!” (IV.iii ). -Malcolm

19. “Dispute it like a man” (IV.iii.221)
-Malcolm to Macduff after the news of his family
Which theme?

20. “I shall do so; But I must feel it as a man” (IV.ii.222-223).
-Macduff’s reply to Malcolm
Which theme?

21. “O, I could play the woman with mine eyes” (IV.ii.232). -Macduff
Gender Roles.