Name: __________________________________________________
Sophomore English, Ms. Doolittle
Table: _________
Period: _____
Date: _________
Translating Macbeth: Act III
Context
Original Quote
Duncan is in his grave;
After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well.
Treason has done his worst: nor steel
nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing,
Can touch him further.
(Macbeth—3.2.25-29)
…I had else been perfect;
Whole as the marble, founded as the
rock,
As broad and general as the casing air.
But now I am cabined, cribbed,
confined and bound in
To saucy doubts and fears.
(Macbeth—3.4.26-32)
It will have blood, they say: blood will
have blood.
(Macbeth—3.4.154-155)
My Translation:
Main Idea
Symbols
Motifs
(Check any/all
that are relevant)
(Check…)
(Check…)

Guilt
Appearances vs. reality
Ambition vs. corruption
kingship vs. tyranny
Gender roles ( ♂ and ♀)
The price of power

Blood
Dagger
Crown
weather

Sleep/Insomnia
“Darkness”

Guilt
Appearances vs. reality
Ambition vs. corruption
kingship vs. tyranny
Gender roles ( ♂ and ♀)
The price of power

Blood
Dagger
Crown
weather



Sleep/Insomnia
“Darkness”

Guilt
Appearances vs. reality
Ambition vs. corruption
kingship vs. tyranny
Gender roles ( ♂ and ♀)
The price of power

Blood
Dagger
Crown
weather



Sleep/Insomnia
“Darkness”
Translating Macbeth: Act IV
Context:
Original Quote
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
(Second Witch—4.1.44-45)
Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to
scorn
The pow’r of man, for none of woman
born
Shall harm Macbeth.
My Translation:
Main Idea
Symbols
Motifs
(Check any/all
that are relevant)
(Check…)
(Check…)

Guilt
Appearances vs. reality
Ambition vs. corruption
kingship vs. tyranny
Gender roles ( ♂ and ♀)
The price of power

Guilt
Appearances vs. reality
Ambition vs. corruption
kingship vs. tyranny
Gender roles ( ♂ and ♀)
The price of power

Blood
Dagger
Crown
weather



Blood
Dagger
Crown
weather



Sleep/Insomnia
“Darkness”

Guilt
Appearances vs. reality
Ambition vs. corruption
kingship vs. tyranny
Gender roles ( ♂ and ♀)
The price of power

Blood
Dagger
Crown
weather



Sleep/Insomnia
“Darkness”

Guilt
Appearances vs. reality
Ambition vs. corruption
kingship vs. tyranny
Gender roles ( ♂ and ♀)
The price of power

Blood
Dagger
Crown
weather



Sleep/Insomnia
“Darkness”

Sleep/Insomnia
“Darkness”
(Second Apparition—4.1.89-90)
Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care
Who chafes, who frets, or where
conspirers are.
Macbeth shall never vanquished be until
Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane
Hill
Shall come against him.
(Third Apparition—4.1.103-108)
I think our country sinks beneath the
yoke;
It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a
gash
Is added to her wounds.
(Malcolm—4.3.48-50)