Macbeth Final- who is speaking

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair,/Hover through the fog and filthy air.” (Act I)

Who is speaking?

The Three Witches

“For brave Macbeth.../Till he unseamed him from th' nave to the chops/And fixed his head upon our battlements.” (Act I, Scene II)

who is speaking?

The Sergeant (or Captain).

“Go pronounce his present death,/And with his former title greet Macbeth.” (Act I, Scene II)

who is speaking

King Duncan.

“So foul and fair a day I have not seen.” (Act I, Scene III)

• Speaker: Macbeth.

“All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!” (Act I, Scene III)

Speaker: The Second Witch.

“If you can look into the seeds of time/And say which grain will grow and which will not.” (Act I, Scene III)

• Speaker: Banquo.

1. “Lesser than Macbeth and greater.” (Act I, Scene III)

• Speaker: The First Witch.

1. “What can the devil speak true.” (Act I, Scene III)

• Speaker: Banquo.

“Do you not hope your children/Shall be kings.” (Act I, Scene III)

• Speaker: Macbeth.

1. “The instruments of darkness tell us truths.” (Act I, Scene III)

• Speaker: Banquo.

1. “This supernatural soliciting/Cannot be ill, cannot be good.” (Act I, Scene III)

• Speaker: Macbeth.

1. “I have begun to plant thee and will labor/ to make thee full of growing.” (Act I, Scene IV)

• Speaker: King Duncan.

1. “Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter/The Prince of Cumberland.” (Act I, Scene IV)

• Speaker: King Duncan.

1. “That is a step/On which I must fall down or else o’erleap,/For in my way it lies.” (Act I, Scene IV)

• Speaker: Macbeth.

1. “Yet do I fear thy nature;/It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness.” (Act I, Scene V)

• Speaker: Lady Macbeth.

1. “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.” (Act I, Scene V)

• Speaker: Lady Macbeth.

1. “Great Glamis, worthy Cawdor,/Greater than both by all-hail hereafter!” (Act I, Scene V)

• Speaker: Lady Macbeth.

1. “Look like th’ innocent flower,/But be the serpent under ‘t.” (Act I, Scene V)

• Speaker: Lady Macbeth.

1. “This castle hath a pleasant seat.” (Act I, Scene VI)

• Speaker: King Duncan.

“I have no spur/To prick the sides of my intent, but only/Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself/And falls on th’ other.” (Act I, Scene VII)

1. “I dare do all that may become a man.” (Act I, Scene VII)

1. “Bring forth men children only,/For thy undaunted mettle should compose nothing but males.” (Act I, Scene VII)

1. “Is this a dagger which I see before me...I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.” (Act II, Scene I)