Act 3 Themes

Act 3 Themes

1. Paranoia

   • "safer to be that which we destroy than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy"
   • "their cruel parricide, filling their hearers with strange invention"
   • "our fears in Banquo stick deep"
   • "O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!"
   • "security is mortal's cheifest enemy"
   • "Banquo's issue have filed my mind"
   • "Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep in the affliction of these terrible dreams that shake us nightly"
   • "our fears in Banquo stick deep"
   • "mine is blanched with fear"

2. Death

   • "vile blows and buffets of the wind hath so incensed that I am reckless what I do to spite the world"
   • "It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul's flight, if it find heaven, must find it out tonight"
   • "Pit of Acheron"
   • "murders have been performed"
   • "blood will have blood"
   • "the crow makes wing"
   • "O, treachery!"
   • "no speculation in those eyes"

3. Supernatural

   • "come fate into the list and champion me to th'utterance"
   • "might appal the devil"
   • "if charnel-houses and graves must send those we bury back"
   • "horrible shadow, unreal mock'ry hence"
   • "stones have been known to move and trees to speak"
   • "I will - to the weird sisters. More shall they speak"
   • "Mistress of your charms"
   • "upon the corner of the moon"

4. Gore

   • "best o'th'cut-throats"
   • "twenty trenched gashes on his head"
   • "blood hath been shed ere now"
   • "when the brains were out"
   • "bones are marrowless"
   • "blood is cold"
   • "never shake thy gory locks at me"

5. Disguise/Deceit

   • "I fear thou play'st most foully for't"
   • "we have scorched the snake, not killed it"
   • "make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are"
   • "play the humble host"
   • "as it is said Mark Anthony's was by Caesar"
   • "be bright and jovial among your guests tonight"
   • "the grown serpent lies; the worm that's fled hath nature that in time will venom breed"