Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. The sergeant is relaying events from the battlefront to King Duncan.Duncan. Dismay’d not thisOur captains, Macbeth and Banquo?Sergeant. Yes;As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.If I say sooth, I must report they wereAs cannons overcharg’d with double cracks;So theyDoubly redoubled strokes upon the foe
Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 5 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are discussing Duncan’s upcoming stay at their castle. Lady Macbeth. And when goes hence?Macbeth. To-morrow, as he purposes.Lady Macbeth. O! neverShall sun that morrow see.Your face, my thane, is as a book where menMay read strange matters. To beguile the time,Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,But be the serpent under ’t. He that’s comingMust be provided for; and you shall putThis night’s great business into my dispatch;Which shall to all our nights and days to comeGive solely sovereign sway and masterdom.
Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 3, of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Second Witch. Show me, show me. First Witch. Here I have a pilot’s thumb,[Wreck’d] as homeward he did come. [Drum within.] Third Witch. A drum! a drum!Macbeth doth come.
What is the definition of "allusion”?
Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 4 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. King Duncan praises Macbeth and Banquo for their victory against the rebel forces.Duncan. Welcome hither:I have begun to plant thee, and will labourTo make thee full of growing. Noble Banquo,That hast no less deserv’d, nor must be knownNo less to have done so, let me infold theeAnd hold thee to my heart. [Embraces BANQUO.]Banquo. There if I grow,The harvest is your own.
Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 5 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is ranting at Macbeth because he has decided against their plan to murder the king.Lady Macbeth. What beast was’t, then,That made you break this enterprise to me?When you durst do it then you were a man;And, to be more than what you were, you wouldBe so much more the man.
Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 4 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth is speaking to Lady Macbeth and preparing to join his guests at the banquet table.Macbeth. See, they encounter thee with their hearts’ thanks;Both sides are even: here I’ll sit i’ the midst:Be large in mirth; anon, we’ll drink a measure the table round.
Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 3 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Ross. The king hath happily receiv’d, Macbeth,The news of thy success; and when he readsThy personal venture in the rebels’ fight,His wonders and his praises do contendWhich should be thine or his. Silenc’d with that,In viewing o’er the rest o’ the self-same day,He finds thee in the stout Norweyan ranks,Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make,Strange images of death. As thick as hailCame post with post, and every one did bearThy praises in his kingdom’s great defence,And pour’d them down before him.
Excerpt 1: Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 7 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth, who is alone in his castle, is contemplating whether to kill Duncan.Macbeth. If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere wellIt were done quickly; if the assassinationCould trammel up the consequence, and catchWith his surcease success; that but this blowMight be the be-all and the end-all here,But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,We’d jump the life to come. But in these casesWe still have judgment here; that we but teachBloody instructions, which, being taught, returnTo plague the inventor; this even-handed justiceCommends the ingredients of our poison’d chaliceTo our own lips.Excerpt 2: Read the excerpt from act 2, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth, who has just killed Duncan, is speaking to Lady Macbeth.Macbeth. Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more!Macbeth does murder sleep,” the innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleave of care,The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath,Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,Chief nourisher in life’s feast,—Lady Macbeth. What do you mean?Macbeth. Still it cried, "Sleep no more!” to all the house:"Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore CawdorShall sleep no more, Macbeth shall sleep no more!”
Read the excerpt from act 5, scene 5 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth is in his castle, waiting to be surrounded by the enemy army. He suddenly hears women crying, and his servant Seyton goes to investigate.Macbeth. I have almost forgot the taste of fears;The time has been, my senses would have cool’dTo hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hairWould at a dismal treatise rouse and stirAs life were in’t: I have supp’d full with horrors;Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughtsCannot once start me.
Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 3 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Banquo and his son, Fleance, have been overtaken by the murderers Macbeth has sent after them.Banquo. O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!Thou mayst revenge. O slave!
Read the excerpt from act 5, scene 8 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macduff has just killed Macbeth. The stage direction at the beginning of the excerpt has been expanded.Re-enter MACDUFF, with MACBETH’S head in one hand and MACBETH’S crown and sword in the other.Macduff. [To MALCOLM.] Hail, king! for so thou art: behold, where standsThe usurper’s cursed head: the time is free:I see thee compass’d with thy kingdom’s pearl,That speak my salutation in their minds;Whose voices I desire aloud with mine:Hail, King of Scotland!All. Hail, King of Scotland!
Excerpt 1: Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 1 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth is thinking about killing Banquo. He remembers the witches’ prophecy that Banquo’s sons will be king after Macbeth. In this excerpt, "seed” means "descendants.”[Macbeth.] He chid the sistersWhen first they put the name of king upon me,And bade them speak to him; then, prophet-like,They hail’d him father to a line of kings.Upon my head they plac’d a fruitless crown,And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,Thence to be wrench’d with an unlineal hand,No son of mine succeeding. If ’t be so,For Banquo’s issue have I fil’d my mind;For them the gracious Duncan have I murder’d;Put rancours in the vessel of my peaceOnly for them; and mine eternal jewelGiven to the common enemy of man,To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!Excerpt 2: Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth is speaking with Lady Macbeth. He suggests that something terrible will happen to Banquo and to Banquo’s son, Fleance, tonight.Macbeth. Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night,Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible handCancel and tear to pieces that great bondWhich keeps me pale! Light thickens, and the crowMakes wing to the rooky wood;Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,[While] night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.Thou marvell’st at my words: but hold thee still;Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill:So, prithee, go with me.
Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 2, of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Duncan. No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive Our bosom interest. Go pronounce his present death, And with his former title greet Macbeth. Ross. I’ll see it done.
Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Duncan. Whence cam’st thou, worthy thane? Ross. From Fife, great king;Where the Norweyan banners flout the skyAnd fan our people cold. Norway himself,With terrible numbers,Assisted by that most disloyal traitor,The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict;Till that Bellona’s bridegroom, lapp’d in proof,Confronted him with self-comparisons,Point against point, rebellious arm ’gainst arm,Curbing his lavish spirit: and, to conclude,The victory fell on us.—
Excerpt 1: Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 1 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. King Duncan has just been murdered, and Macbeth is now king. Banquo remembers the witches’ prophecy and wonders whether Macbeth played a part in Duncan’s murder.Banquo. Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all,As the weird women promis’d; and, I fear,Thou play’dst most foully for ’t; yet it was saidIt should not stand in thy posterity,But that myself should be the root and fatherOf many kings. If there come truth from them,—As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine,—Why, by the verities on thee made good,May they not be my oracles as well,And set me up in hope? But, hush! no more.Excerpt 2: Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are preparing for a feast. Macbeth is king, but he cannot forget the witches’ prophecy that Banquo’s sons, not his own, will succeed him.Macbeth. O! full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife;Thou know’st that Banquo and his Fleance lives.Lady Macbeth. But in them nature’s copy’s not eterne.Macbeth. There’s comfort yet; they are assailable;Then be thou jocund. Ere the bat hath flownHis cloister’d flight, ere, to black Hecate’s summonsThe shard-borne beetle with his drowsy humsHath rung night’s yawning peal, there shall be doneA deed of dreadful note.
Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 4 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.[Macbeth.] [To Ghost of BANQUO.] Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,The arm’d rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger;Take any shape but that, and my firm nervesShall never tremble
Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 3 of The Tragedy of Macbeth.Macbeth. [Aside.] Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor:The greatest is behind. [To ROSS and ANGUS.] Thanks for your pains.[To BANQUO.] Do you not hope your children shall be kings,When those that gave the Thane of Cawdor to mePromis’d no less to them? Banquo. That, trusted home,Might yet enkindle you unto the crown,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’sIn deepest consequence.[To ROSS and ANGUS.] Cousins, a word, I pray you.
Which of Macbeth’s quotations from act 1, scene 3 of The Tragedy of Macbeth is an example of antithesis?
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