Act 1

Act 1

1. SCENE 1

   • Setting
     • "a desert place"
       • "thunder, lightning or in rain?"
         • "that will be ere the set of sun"
           • "Upon the heath"
             • "Hover through the fog and filthy air"
               • darkness and unhealthines. Forshadows misfortune
               • upsetting the natural order of things
             • eerie, gothic setting
           • specific, as they know Macbeth wil be there
         • pathetic fallacy, warns audience about bad events to come
       • desolate setting
   • The Witches
     • "When shall we three meet again?"
       • "When the battle's lost and won"
         • oxymoron. Suggesting they are alien to human values and seem impossible for humans to understand.
           • "I come, graymalkin"
             • "paddock calls"
             • witches familiars, inhuman

2. SCENE 2

   • violent imagery
     • "smoked with bloody execution"
       • sword will be used a lot, portraying the sergeant as brave and courageous
       • "he unseamed him from the nave to the chops"
         • "fixed his head upon our battlements"
           • gory , violent imagery
         • brutality
         • also seen as a virtue, "O Valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman!"
         • indications that Macbeth is brutal and not completely victorious.
           • these traits may be viewed as destruction to his character and contributions towards his fatal flaws.
     • "what bloody man is that?"
   • high borne male
     • "with his former title greet macbeth"
     • "what he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won"
       • links to witches prophecies coming true, "battles lost and won"

3. Scene 3

   • setting
     • "A heath"
       • "Thunder"
       • informs the audience that the witches will relay bad news
         • "blasted heath"
           • depressing bleak seting
   • The Witches
     • "killing swine"
       • suggests they are mythical, possibly killing swine for a witches brew
         • "what, can the devil speak true?"
       • "i'll give thee a wind"
         • supernatural powers, can control the weather
         • "Macbeth doth come"
           • predict the future
             • "All hail, Macbeth! that shalt be king hereafter"
               • the ultimate prediction, How will this happen?
                 • foreshadows death AND trouble
       • "I will drain him as dry as hay"
         • portrayed as negativley
     • "your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so"
       • not-feminine, so they are evil
     • "so wild in their attire"
       • "not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth"
       • sub-human creatures
     • "The earth hath bubbles, as the water has"
       • "whither a
   • Banquo
     • judgmental of the witches because they are women
       • "who neither beg nor fear"
         • he wont beg them for answers
       • "Or have we eaten on the insane root?"
         • wondering if they have imagined it , such an unbelievable prediction.
   • Macbeth
     • "Stay you imperfect speakers, tell me more"
       • intrested in what they have to say after they predict he'll become king.
         • "With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you"
           • orders them to speak as he's powerful and a high borne male character
     • "The king hath happily received, Macbeth"
       • "Thy praises in his kingdom's great defence, And poured them down before him"
         • The king is happy with Macbeth, prophecies are coming true
           • "He bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor"
             • The king has instructed Ross to call Macbeth T of C, supernatural is becoming real