Macbeth act 1

Who says when shall we three meet again? In thunder lightning or in rain.. when the hurley burley’s done, when the battles lost and won.. that will be ere the set of sun… where the place.. upon the heath.. there to meet Macbeth… I come graymalkin… paddock calls anon, fair is foul and foul is fair, hover through the fog and filthy air

The witches, they predict Macbeth is going to be king (cast a spell) fairs foul and fouls fair meaning that what’s good is bad and what’s bad is good

Who says what bloody man is that? He can report as seems the by his plight of the revolt the newest state

King Duncan says this when talking to his son Malcolm who has brought in their army soldier (sergeant)

Who says this is the sergeant who like a good and hardy soldier fought gainât my captivity hail brave friend say to the king the knowledge of the broil as thou didst leave it

Malcolm says this to his father (king Duncan) Malcolm tells the sergeant to tell the king what he knows of the battle they had just come from

Who says doubtful it stood as two spent swimmers that do cling together and choke their art…. Till he (Macbeth) unsealed him from the nave to the chops and fixed his (macdonwald) head upon our battlements… /yes as sparrows eagles or the hare the lion if I say sooth I must report they were as cannons overcharged with double cracks so they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds or memorize another Golgotha.. my gashes cry for help

The sergeant says this to the king when explaining the battle - he talks about Macbeth “saving the day”/ talks about how Macbeth and Banquo fought twice as hard against the enemy (norwegians)

Who says from fife great king where the Norwegian banners flout the sky and fan our people cold Norway himself with terrible numbers assisted by that most disloyal traitor the thane of Cawdor began a dismal conflict.. until the victory fell on us

Ross says this (a nobleman of Scotland) he’s explaining that the thane of cawdor had betrayed them but they had won the battle anyway

Who says no more than that thane of cawdor shall deceive our bosom interest go pronounce his present death and with his former title greet Macbeth… what he hath lost, noble Macbeth has won

The king says this to Ross, telling him to give Macbeth the title of thane of cawdor and the thane of cawdor had lost his title Macbeth has won it (Ross goes to tell Macbeth)

Who says so foul and fair a day I have not seen

Macbeth says this while with Banquo this means that the day has been so good but so bad at the same time

Who says how far is it called to forres? What are these so withered and wild in their attire they look not like the inhabitants of the earth and yet are on it live you or are you aught that man may question you seem to understand me by each at once her choppy finger laying upon her skinny lips you should be women, and het your beards forbid me to interpret you are so

Banquo says this when the witches appear to him and Macbeth

Who says all hail Macbeth hail to thee thane of glamis all hail Macbeth hail to thee thane of cawdor all hail Macbeth that shall be king hereafter

The witches say this when they speak with Macbeth and Banquo, they are prophesizing that Macbeth is going to become king

Who says good sir why do you start and seem to fear things that do sound so fair? In the name of truth are ur fantastical or that indeed which outwardly ur show? My noble partner you greet with present grace and great prediction of noble having and of Royal hope that he seems rapt withal. To me you speak not of you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grown and which will not speak then to me who neither beg nor fear your favours nor your hate

Banquo says this to the witches in response to their predictions about Macbeth

Who says lesser than Macbeth and greater not so happy yet much happier thou shall get kings thou though be none so Al hail Macbeth and Banquo Banquo and Macbeth all hail

The witches say this in response to Banquo when revealing to him and Macbeth that Macbeth will be king and they tell Banquo that he will father a line of kings but won’t be one himself

Who says stay you imperfect speakers tell me more by sinels death I know I am thane of glamis but how of cawdor the thane of cawdor lives a prosperous gentleman and to be king stands not within the prospect of belief say from whence you owe this strange intelligence or why upon this blasted heath you stop our way with such prophetic greeting speak I charge you

Macbeth says this. He wants to know more about how the witches think that he will be king

Who says The earth has bubbled as the water has and these are of them whither they vanished? Were such things here as we speak about or have we eaten on the insane root who takes reason prisoner .. you shall be king .. to the selfsame tune and words went it not so?

Banquo says this after the witches vanish, he wonders if they were part of a hallucination or something and questions if they were even there

Who says into the air and what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind would they had stayed! Your children shall be kings … and thane of cawdor too went it not so

Macbeth says this in convo with Banquo after the witches leave he wishes they had stayed so he could’ve asked more questions and they say he will be king Banquo will birth kings and Macbeth will be thane of cawdor too

(Ross finds Macbeth and tells him he is now thane of cawdor) who says the thane of cawdor lives why do you dress me in borrowed robes

Macbeth says this to Ross because Ross called him the thane of cawdor and he isn’t (why dress me in borrowed robes) why do you call me what I am not

Who says that trusted home might yet enkindle you into the crown besides the thane of cawdor but it’s strange and oftentimes to win us our harm the instruments of darkness tell us truths win us with honest trifles to betray us in deepest consequence

Banquo is telling Macbeth not to trust in the witches promises they will raise your hopes and bring about destruction -he’s warning Macbeth

Who says two truths are told as happy prologues to the swelling act of the imperial theme I thank you gentlemen this supernatural soliciting cannot be ill cannot be good if ill why hath it given me earnest success commencing in truth I am thane of cawdor if good why do I yield to that suggestion which doth unfix my hair and make my heart pound against the use of nature present fears are less than horrible imaginings my thought whose murder is yet but fantastical shakes so my single state of man that function is smothered in surmise and nothing is but what it’s not

Macbeth says this to himself (aside) trying to reason with himself wondering if he should do it or not what the witches tell him

Who says if chance may have me king why chance may crown me

Macbeth says this to Banquo essentially saying that I will let it happen on its own I won’t do anything (let fate be)

Who says I have spoke with one that saw him die who did report very frankly that he confessed his treasons … he died as one that had been studied in his death to throw away the dearest thing he owed as twere a careless trifle

Malcolm talking to King Duncan about the execution of thane of cawdor

There’s no art to find the minds construction in the face he was a gentlemen on whom I built an absolute trust

Said by King Duncan he means that it’s appearance vs reality and that he shouldn’t have to try and figure out what someone’s true intentions are

Who says the prince of Cumberland that is a step on which I must fall down or else over leap for in my way it lies stars hide your fires let not light see my black and deep desires the eye wink at the hand yet let that be which the eye fears for it is done to see

Macbeth says this (aside) upon discovering the king Duncan’s son Malcolm is going to be in his way to being king (not usual in that time period for heirs to be familial -whoever won in battle would be heir) Macbeth has decided he cannot leave it to fate like he said earlier and needs to do smt

Who says glamis thou art and cawdor and shalt be what thou art promised yet I do fear thy nature it is too full of the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way thou would be great art not without ambition but without the illness that tends it what thou wouldst highly and thou wouldst holily wouldst not play false and yet wouldst wrongly win thou’dst havé great glamis that which cries thou must do if thou have it that which rather thou dost fear to do than wishest should be undone hie thee hither that I may pour my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valour of my tongue

Lady Macbeth says this in response to recovering a letter from Macbeth saying how he just got told by witches he was going to be king and she thinks he doesn’t have the guts but she will (control him and get him to do it -pour my spirit in thine ear)

who says the raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts under me here and fill me from the crown to toe with the forest cruelty make thick my blood stop up the access and passage to remorse that no compunctions visiting a of nature shake my fell purpose nor keep peace between the effect and it come to my woman’s breasts and take my milk for gall you murdering ministers wherever in your sightless mischief come thick night and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell that my keen knife see not the wound it makes nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark to cry hold hold (stop)

Lady Macbeth says this upon waiting for the king to come to her castle for dinner she asks the spirits of evil to make her feel evil so that she has no remorse and asks for the darkness to cover up what she’s gonna do

Who says oh never shall sun that morrow see your face my thane is a book where men may read strange manners to beguile time look like the time bear welcome in your eyes your hand your tongue look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it he that’s coming must be provided for and you shalt put this nights great business in my dispatch which shall to all our nights and days to come give solely sovereign sway and masterdom (we will speak further$ only look up clear to alter favor is to fear leave all the rest to me

Lady Macbeth says this to Macbeth telling him that they will murder king Duncan tonight and that Macbeths face is like an open book to deceive those around you welcome them wearing an expression that suits the occasion

Who says This castle hath a pleasant seat the air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle senses

The king says this in front of macbeths castle (dramatic irony cuz he doesn’t know he isn’t waking up tmre)

Who says This guest of summer the temple haunting martlet does approve by his loved mansionry that the heavens breath smells wooingly here no jutty frieze buttress nor coign of vantage but this bird hath made his pendant bed procréant cradle where they most breed and haunt I have observed the air is delicate

Banquo says this in response to the king outside macbeths castle (dramatic irony) the birds are singing

Who says all our service in every point twice done and then done double we’re poor and single business to contend against those Honoré deep and broad where with your majesty loads our house for those of old and the late dignities healed up on them we rest your hermits .. /your servants ever have theirs themselves and what is theirs in compt to make their audit at your highnesses pleasure still to return your own

Lady Macbeth says this to the king about how everything’s perfect and been double checked

Who’s says if it were done when it is done then it were well if it were done quickly if the assasination could trammel up the consequence and catch .. this blow might be the be all end all here .. we teach bloody instructions which being taught return to plague the inventor this even handed Justice comments the ingredients of our poisoned chalice to our own lips he’s here in double trust first as my kinsman and his subject strong both against the deed then as his host who should against his murderer shut the fort not bear the knife himself besides this Duncan his faculties born so meek hath been so clear in his office that his virtues will plead like angels and pity like the newborn babe shall blow the horrid deed in every eye so that tears will drown the wind I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition which overleaps itself

Macbeth has his soliloquy arguing with himself that he shouldn’t go thru with killing king Duncan he says that it should be done quickly so that it will stop the consequences this murder might be the be all end all … the things we teach come back to us (full circle) and the king trust him as a cousin and his subject and his host and he shouldn’t kill him duncan is a good king no one will find reason for him murder and everyone will cry alot

Who says We will proceed no further in this business he hath honoured me of late and I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people which would be worn now in their newest gloss not cast aside so soon

Macbeth talking to his wife saying he wishes not to do this

Who says was the hope drunk wherein you dressed yourself hath it slept since and wakes it now to look so green and pale at what it did so freely from this time such I account thy love art thou afraid to be the same in thine own act and valour as thou are in desire wouldst thou have that which thou esteemst the ornament of life and live a coward In thine own esteem letting I dare not wait upon I would

Lady Macbeth says to Macbeth in response to his backtracking

What beast is it then that made you break this enterprise to me when you durst do it you were a man and to be much more than what you were you would be so much more the man nor time nor place did then adhere and get you would make both they have made themselves .. I know how tender it is to love the babe that milks me I would have dashed it’s brains out had i so sworn as you have done to this

Lady Macbeth says this to Macbeth saying that he will be a man if he goes thru with it (be strong not afraid/cowardly) at some point time and place weren’t as good as now but Macbeth made it work and was prepared to do it anyway so he can’t use it as excuse and she also says that if she had sworn to do what he is doing to a baby even if it was her own (pregnant at one point) she would’ve done it so fast

Who says (if we should fail) we fail but screw your courage to the sticky place and we’ll not fail when Duncan is asleep will I with wine and wassail so convince (his guards) that memory will be a fume.. his spongy officers shall bear the guilt of our great quell .. who dares receive it as other as we shall make our grief and clamour roar upon his death

lady Macbeth says this to Macbeth saying that she will get the guards so drunk that they won’t know what happened that night and they’ll act so convincing that everyone will believe the story they spin

Bring forth men children only for thy undaunted mettle should compose nothing but males will it not be received when we have marked with blood those sleepy two (guards) of his own chamber and used their very daggers that they have done it

Macbeth says this to lady Macbeth when they reveal how they are going to murder king Duncan they will use the guards swords and pin it on them

I am settled and bent up each corporal agent to this terrible feat away and mock the time with fairest show false face must hide what the false heart doth know

Macbeth says this also to lady Macbeth taking about how they must deceive everyone (mock time with the fairest show) my face and heart must hide what I know