1. Macbeth Act I Quotes Carousel
Corbett, Hickman, MacDonald

2. What to do Identify the speaker Identify to whom they are speaking
Clarify-what is going on in the play when the word are spoke (complete sentences)
Analysis- why the quote is important (link to literary terms like mood, tone, irony, foreshadowing, plot, ect.) (also in complete sentences)
You will share your information with the class

3. 1
“The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down or else o’erleap, for in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

4. “He unseamed him from the nave to th’ chops.”2
“He unseamed him from the nave to th’ chops.”

5. 3
“He’s here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, strong both against the deed; then, as his host who should against his murder shut the door, not bear the knife myself.”

6. 4
“There’s no art/To find the mind’s construction in the face. He was a gentleman on whom I built/An absolute trust.”

7. 5
“To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue. Look like th’ innocent flower, but be the serpent under ‘t.”

8. “When the hurly-burly’s done,/When the battle’s lost and won.”6
“When the hurly-burly’s done,/When the battle’s lost and won.”

9. 7
“Give me your hand. Conduct me to mine host. We love him highly and shall continue our graces toward him. By your leave, hostess.”

10. 8
“ 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.”

11. 9
“No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive our bosom interest. Go pronounce his present death, and with his former title greet Macbeth.”

12. 10
. “Two truths are told,/As happy prologues to the swelling act of the imperial theme.”

13. 11
That, trusted home, Might yet enkindle you unto the crown, Besides the thane of Cawdor. But ’tis strange. And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles,

14. 12
“We will proceed no further in this business. He hath honored me of late, I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people, which would worn now in their newest gloss, not cast aside so soon.”

15. 13
“Bring forth men-children only. For thy undaunted mettle should compose nothing but males.”

16. 14
“Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be what thou are promised. Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way.”

17. 15
“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…”

18. Bonus
“Sons, kinsmen, thanes, and you whose places are the nearest, know we will establish our estate upon our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter The Prince of Cumberland.”