ACT 1

ACT 1

1. SCENE ONE

   • Thunder - setting atmosphere
   • Elizabethan audience beliefs
   • control weather
     • 'in thunder, lightning or in rain'
   • reversal of moral values, ominous, false appearances
     • 'fair is foul and foul is fair'
   • ability to prophesize
     • 'when the hurlyburly's done, when the battle's lost and won'

2. SCENE 2

   • first introduction to MB, impression that he is brave, violent, barbaric, heroic, fearless
     • 'brave Macbeth' 'valours minion' 'unseamed him from the nave to th'chops' 'bellona's bridegroom'
   • irony in what king D says
     • 'no more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive'

3. SCENE THREE

   • witches doing spells
     • call themselves 'weird sisters'
   • witches prophecies
     • 'all hail, Macbeth