Act 3 quotes Flashcards
“Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck”
Macbeth to Lady Macbeth (he has planned the murder of Banquo independently of her)
“Fly, good Fleabce, fly, fly, fly!”
Banquo to his son
“I has else been perfect […]
But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears”
Macbeth on hearing that Fleance has escaped
“Which of you have done this?”
Macbeth confused as he sees the ghost of Banquo
“Thou can’t not say I did it; never shake
Thy gory locks at me!”
Macbeth to the ghost
“Sit, sit worthy friends.
My Lord is often thus and has been from his youth”
Lady Macbeth tries to calm the situation
“Are you a man?”
Lady Macbeth questions Macbeth’s masculinity/strength
“What, quite unmanned in folly?”
Lady Macbeth questions Macbeth’s masculinity/strength
“And to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss”
Macbeth’s toast to Banquo (trying to ensure that people don’t suspect that he is the reason Banquo did not attend the feast)
“Avaunt and quit my sight! Let the wary hide thee!”
Macbeth to the ghost when it reappears
“blood will have blood”
Macbeth reflects on the consequences of his actions
“I will tomorrow […] to the weird sisters”
Macbeth makes a plan to know more independently of Macbeth
“I am in blood stepped in so far tgat should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o’er”
Macbeth reflects on the consequences on his action and what to do next
