1. The Tragedy of Macbeth: Review in Quotations

2. Team QUOTATION Challenge
Today we will review for tomorrow’s exam.
HW: STUDY TONIGHT. Use your notebook and Moodle.
EXTRA HELP AFTERSCHOOL.
Essay: Thursday and Friday – I will introduce on Thursday

3. Directions Identify who is speaking to whom.
Provide the context: what’s happening, when and where.
Explain the significance. Consider the impact of this statement. Consider how it helps develop mood, plot, character, theme.
What makes the language special? Think imagery, diction, rhythm, for example.

4. “Fair is foul and foul is fair.”

5. The witches chant this line at the end of 1. 1
The witches chant this line at the end of 1.1.,allowing Shakespeare to set an eerie, ominous mood and to introduce one of the central themes of the play. This play is filled with equivocations and two-faced characters, causing us to question what is or is not true, what is or is not good.

6. “Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe, top-full
Of direst cruelty.”

7. Lady Macbeth delivers her “unsex me” speech after reading Macbeth’s letter about the witches and after learning that Duncan is coming to sleep at their home.
She is determined to overcome the fact that her husband is “too full of the milk of human kindness” and asks for all of her feminine qualities, particularly compassion and remorse, to be steeled over with a more masculine ruthlessness.

8. “False face must hide what false heart must know”

9. Here Macbeth promises to hide the truth
Here Macbeth promises to hide the truth. This line comes two scenes after Lady Macbeth criticizes him for having a face that can be read too easily, like a book. This line signifies that Lady Macbeth has convinced her husband to move beyond his many doubts, all of which are listed in his first soliloquy “If it be done”, and kill Duncan.

10. “Is that a dagger I see before me?”

11. In his second soliloquy, Macbeth is hallucinating; he imagines a dagger pointing toward Duncan’s room. Halfway through the speech, he sees blood forming on the imaginary dagger. Then he snaps back to reality and takes out his own dagger.
Here, he is readying himself for murder, waiting for his wife to give the signal and ring the bell. Is this dagger the work of his “heat oppressed brain” or is it brought on by supernatural forces or as one director believes, is it the work of ing from PTSD. Next, he will imagine Banquo’s ghost, and we will ask the same questions.

12. “I am in blood
Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er.”

13. Macbeth says this to Lady Macbeth at the end of the banquet scene in Act III.
Many agree that this is the CLIMAX of the play, as we can predict with almost certainty that Macbeth will continue down a path of dark and evil, that he will not let his guilt or his conscience affect him anymore.

14. “Out, out damn spot!”

15. Lady Macbeth delivers these lines while sleepwalking
Lady Macbeth delivers these lines while sleepwalking. She is overheard by her servant and doctor.
This lines reveal that all of her attempts to hide from her more feminine side, from her guilt and compassion, have failed. Her attempts to suppress these natural emotions have driven her mad.
We are reminded of her earlier lines in 2.3 when he tells Macbeth “a little water clears us of this deed.” Now she obsessively washes her hands, signifying that she feels she can never be clean or free of guilt.

16. Choose 2-3 quotations to challenge the class.