1. Assessment objectives
AO1: themes and ideas & knowledge of whole play AO2: specific detail from the play & subject terminology AO3: contextual links and contemporary relevance

2. Act 3 – key quotes Lady Macbeth to M: “You must leave this”
“full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife”
Macbeth: “Be innocent of the knowledge…Come seeling night, scarf up thy tender eye of pitiful day”
Macbeth: “Hence, horrible shadow, unreal mockery, hence!” “It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood”.
“I am in blood Stepped so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o-er”

3. Act 3 – dramatic devices Dramatic devices On-stage murder
Blood
Ghost
Linguistic devices/imagery
Sleep
Blood
Deception/lies
Structural features
Role reversal/parallel dialogue to Acts 1& 2: Macbeth & Lady Macbeth

4. Act 3 Scene 1: Macbeth, Banquo, murderers
Banquo alone on stage: “Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, As the weird women promised, and I fear thou play’dst most foully for’t”
Macbeth & Lady Macbeth invite Banquo to a formal banquet
Macbeth alone on stage: “Our fears in Banquo stick deep, and in his royalty of nature reigns that which would be feared.”
Macbeth discusses Banquo’s death with the murderers: “We are men, my liege” [as if committing murder proves manhood]; “I will advise you where to plant yourselves” [QU: How does this echo Lady Macbeth in Act 1 Scenes 5 & 7?]
“It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul’s flight, If it find heaven, must find it out tonight.”

5. Act 3 Scene 2: Lady Macbeth, Macbeth
Lady Macbeth alone on stage: “Nought’s had, all’s spent, Where our desire is got without content.”
Lady Macbeth to M: “You must leave this”
Macbeth: “full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife”
Lady M: “What’s to be done?”
Macbeth: “Be innocent of the knowledge…Come seeling night, scarf up thy tender eye of pitiful day”
Macbeth: “Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, Whiles night’s black agents to their preys do rouse”

6. Act 3 Scene 4: Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, banquet
Macbeth: “There’s blood upon thy face… Tis better thee without than he within”
[The Ghost of Banquo sits in Macbeth’s seat] – “Which of you has done this?”
L. Macbeth: “Sit, worthy friends. My lord is often thus…” “-Are you a man?” “This is the air-drawn dagger which you said Led you to Duncan”; “What, quite unmanned in folly?”
Macbeth: “Hence, horrible shadow, unreal mockery, hence!” “It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood”.
“I am in blood Stepped so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o-er”

7. Act 3 – short scenes Scene 3: 1st, 2nd, 3rd murderers, Banquo, Fleance
Banquo: “O treachery! Fly good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!”
Scene 5: witches, Hecate
The heath, thunder [as in Act 1 Scene 1]. NB In general, it is thought that Shakespeare didn’t write this scene.
Scene 6: Lennox, Lord
Lennox: “the tyrant’s feast”. Macduff has gone to England “that we might again give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights…”

8. Act 3 Scene 2: Macbeth & Lady Macbeth – role reversal
Scene 4: Macbeth – a frightening man!
Macbeth: “I am in blood Stepped so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o-er”
Macbeth: “Strange things I have in head, that will to hand”
Lady M: “You lack the season of all natures, sleep”
Macbeth: “We are yet but young in deed”