Macbeth Act 1 Test Review Sheet

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“Fair is foul, and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and the filthy air.”

the three witches, chant

“I myself have all the other,

And the very ports they blow;

All the quarters that they know

I’ th’ shipman’s card.

I’ll drain him dry as hay. 

Sleep shall neither night nor day

Hang upon his penthouse lid.

He shall live a man forbid.

Weary sev’nnights, nine times nine,

Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine. 

Though his bark cannot be lost,

Yet it shall be tempest-tossed.

Look what I have.”

“Show me, show me.”

“Here I have a pilot’s thumb, 

wracked as a homeward he did come.” 

“A drum, a drum

Macbeth doth come.”

The Weird Sisters, hand in hand,

Posters of the sea and land,

Thus do go about, about”

first witch, second witch, first witch, third witch, all; all to each other, then chant

“All hail Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thame of Glamis!

All hail Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!

All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!”

three witches said to Macbeth ONLY; don’t talk to Banquo yet

“Good sir, why do you start and seem to fear

Things that do sound so fair? ---I’ th’ name of truth,

Are you fantastical or that indeed” 

banquo towards Macbeth then the — means he starts talking to witches

“Lesser than Macbeth and greater.

Not so happy, yet much happier.

Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.”

witches towards banquo

“Why do you dress me

In borrowed robes?”

macbeth towards Angus and Ross

“Besides the Thane of Cawdor. But ’tis strange.

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,

The instruments of darkness tell us truths,

Win us with honest trifles, to betray ’s

In deepest consequence --”

banquo to macbeth

“That function is smothered in surmise,

And nothing is but what is not.”

macbeth aside

“New honors come upon him,

Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mold 

But with the aid of use.”

banquo to Ross and angus

“There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

He was a gentleman on whom I built

An absolute trust.”

duncan to malcolm

“I have begun to plant thee and will labor

To make thee full of growing --- Noble Banquo,

That hast no less deserved nor must be known

No less to have done so, let me enfold thee

And hold thee to my heart.”

duncan to macbeth then — means he shifts to banquo

“The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step

On which I must fall down or else o’erleap,

For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires;

Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

macbeth aside

“What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature;

It is too full o’th’ milk of human kindness

To catch the nearest way, Thou wouldst be great”

lady Mac soliloquy

“Under my battlements. Come, you spirits

That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,

And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full

Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood.”

lady mac soliloquy

“Look like th’ innocent

Flower,

But be the serpent under ’t”

lady Mac to macbeth

“I have no spur

To prick the sides of my intent, but only

Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself

And falls on th’ other--”

macbeth soliloquy

“Bring forth men-children only,

For thy undaunted mettle should compose

Nothing but males. Will it not be received,”

mac to lady mac

“Away, and mock the time with fairest show.

 False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”

mac to lady mac

synecdoche

something that stands in for the whole (Ex: Norway = Norwegian King/government)

metonymy

something of speeching that substitutes something else (ex: Crown = king)

iambic pentameter

having five stressed syllables (ex: “What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.”)

foil character

 contrasts/brings attention to another character (ex: Banquo and Macbeth)

—

shift from one Convo to another (ex: from an aside to talking to Banquo)

aside

 a character talks to themself with other characters on stage

soliloquy

 a character talks to themself without anyone else (SOLO) → internal monologue spoken out loud 

dramatic irony

audience knows something that the characters don’t know.

verbal irony

sarcasm

Weird (with the two dots on the I)

supernatural/about witches or witchcraft; fate, in antiquity

rapt

seize control of

liege

king

wanton

loose woman