• future problems:
Fleance lives
“There the grown serpent lies;
the worm that’s fled
Hath nature that in time will
venom breed, No teeth for th’
present.”
• future problems:
Fleance lives
• present trials:
Banquo’s ghost
• present trials:
Banquo’s ghost
• situational irony:
Macbeth reproves
Banquo for not
attending the
feast, and so
he comes—
as a ghost.
• present trials:
Banquo’s ghost
• apparent
madness
• Are you a man?
“Thy bones
are
marrowless,
thy blood is
cold.”
“Blood hath
been shed
ere now.”
“Thou canst
not say I did it;
never shake
thy gory locks
at me.”
“There’s
blood upon
thy face.”
“It will have
blood they
say; blood
will have
blood.”
“I am in blood
Stepp’d in so far that,
should I wade no
more
Returning were as
tedious as go o’er.”
• confer with spies
about his lords
• seek out the
weird sisters
• attempt
to sleep
• purpose: to inform the
audience of events
• Macbeth’s crimes
• rising suspicion of the
lords
• Macduff’s plans to join
Malcolm
Act I
Macbeth believes
witches’ prophecy.
Lady Macbeth
receives the letter.
The Macbeths plot
Duncan’s death.
Act II
Lady Macbeth drugs
the chamberlains.
Macbeth murders
Duncan.
Duncan’s sons flee.
Act III
Banquo suspects
Macbeth.
Banquo is
murdered.
Banquo’s ghost
haunts Macbeth.
Macduff goes to
England.
Macbeth’s Corruption
Intro
Act I
loyal subject, moral
courage, not opportunistic
strong ambition, inner
conflict, murderous
Act II immoral, irrational, foul
play, regicide