Macbeth Quotes-No more than 400 words total
For each section, read the quote, who the speaker is, and the situation.
Tell me what theme it relates to (ex. appearance versus reality). In addition explain a connection to your life or our world.. You may use a different color text to
distinguish your answers. Each one is worth 25 points.
An example has been completed for you.
EXAMPLE: (I. 1. 10-11) “Fair is foul, and foul is fair/ Hover through the fog and filthy air.”
Speaker: The Witches
Situation: The witches are meeting and planning when they will meet next, with Macbeth. Fair is foul seems to be part of a spell.
Theme: Appearance versus reality
Connection to your life: I have met people who seemed nice but were really terrible people. There are also people who I made assumptions about because of the way they
looked and they turned out to be really smart and kind.
1. (I. 3) “So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”
Speaker: Macbeth
Situation: Macbeth has won but he has lost fellow soldiers.
Theme:
Connection to your life:
2. (II. 3.) “There’s daggers in men’s smiles.”
Speaker: Donalbain
Situation: Donalbain is speaking to Malcolm. They are both King Duncan’s sons.
Theme:
Connection to your life:
3. (III. 4) “It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood.”
Speaker: Macbeth
Situation: Macbeth has just murdered Ducan and he is aware he will not get away with it.”
Theme:
Connection to your life:
4. (IV. 1) “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes”
Speaker: Second witch
Situation: Macbeth is coming to speak to the witches
Theme:
Connection to your life:
5. (V 5). “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this pretty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time..”
Speaker: Macbeth
Situation: Macbeth just learns of his wife’s suicide and reflects on his own indifference to death. It points out the continual beat of time and humans’ last breaths.
Theme:
Connection to your life:
