Act 3 Scene 3

Act 3 Scene 3

1. Third murderer has joined the other two to await their victims

   • They kill Banquo but fleance escapes

2. Third muderer

   • link to the idea of 3's in the play
     • supernatural presence?
     • increasing evil in the play
       • reflects Macbeth's paranoia- 2 murderers are not enough

3. SETTING

   • 'A lonely place near Forres'
     • abandoned/desolate- similar to the witches
     • 'the west yet glimmers with some steaks of day'
       • twilight- strange time of day

4. The murder

   • short lines-rapid/chaotic
     • A light, a light!/ 'Tis he/ Stand to't
     • chaotic/frantic movement on stage
   • Irony
     • 'It will be rain tonight'
       • normality in the conversation
         • metaphor- blows/violence that is to come
   • still protects his son
     • 'Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly'
       • repetition - urgency
     • betrayal by macbeth
       • 'trachery'
   • in Prose.