Scene 1 Act 3

Question 1

Banquo; suspicious of how Macbeth has become King

Answer 1

“Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,

As the weird women promised; and I fear thou played’st most foully for it.”

Question 2

Macbeth; commentating that it means nothing to be king, unless his position is assured.

Answer 2

“To be thus is nothing, but to safety thus. Our fears in Banquo stick deep;”

Question 3

Macbeth; jealous that Banquo’s children will be kings

Answer 3

“Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,”

Question 4

Macbeth; saying he will never be well as long as Banquo lives

Answer 4

“Who wear our health but sickly in his life, which in his death were perfect.”

Question 5

Macbeth; manipulating the murderers

Answer 5

“Both of you know Banquo was your enemy,”

Question 6

Macbeth; telling the murderers the he has his reasons for Banquo’s murder and that it needs to stay quiet

Answer 6

“That I to your assistance do make love, masking the business from the common eye for sundry weighty reasons.”

Question 7

Macbeth; cold, doesn’t not care about Fleance’s death

Answer 7

“Fleance his son, that keeps him company, whose absence is no less material to me,”

Question 8

Macbeth; decided about Banquo’s fate

Answer 8

“It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul’s flight, if it find heaven, must it find out tonight.”