To find the mind s construction in the face. He was a gentleman on whom I built An absolute trust. Enter MACBETH, BANQUO, ROSS and ANGUS

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1 Year 10 Macbeth IN-CLASS PASSAGE ANALYSIS 2 of the following 4 passages will be provided for your in-class passage analysis to be completed under test conditions. PASSAGE 1 Act 1 Scene 4, 1-32 DUNCAN: Is execution done on Cawdor, or not Those in commission yet returned? My liege, They are not yet come back. But I have spoke With one that saw him die, who did report That very frankly he confessed his treasons, 5 Implore your highness pardon, and set forth A deep repentance. Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it. He died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed 10 As twere a careless trifle. DUNCAN: There s no art To find the mind s construction in the face. He was a gentleman on whom I built An absolute trust. Enter MACBETH, BANQUO, ROSS and ANGUS DUNCAN O worthiest cousin, The sin of my ingratitude even now 15 Was heavy on me. Thou art so far before, That swiftest wing of recompense is slow To overtake thee. Would thou hadst less deserved, That the proportion both of thanks and payment Might have been mine. Only I have left to say, 20 More is thy due than more than all can pay. The service and the loyalty I owe, In doing it, pays itself. Your highness part Is to receive our duties, and our duties Are to your throne and state, children and servants, 25 Which do but what they should by doing everything Safe toward your love and honour. Welcome hither I have begun to plant thee and will labour To make thee full of growing. Noble Banquo That hast no less deserved, nor must be known 30 No less to have done so, let me enfold thee And hold thee to my heart.

2 PASSAGE 2 Act 2 Scene 1, Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. 35 Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppresséd brain? I see thee yet, in form as palpable 40 As this which now I draw. Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going, And such an instrument I was to use. Mine eyes are made the fools o th other senses, Or else worth all the rest. I see thee still, 45 And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. There's no such thing: It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse 50 The curtained sleep. Witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's off rings, and withered murder, Alarumed by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace. With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design 55 Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives; 60 Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives. A bell rings I go, and it is done. The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell. Exit

3 PASSAGE 3 Act 4, Scene 1, Lines Call em, let me see em. FIRST WITCH: Pour in sow s blood, that hath eaten Her nine farrow; grease that s sweaten From the murderer s gibbet throw 65 Into the flame. ALL: Come high or low: Thyself and office deftly show. Thunder. [Enter] FIRST APPARITION, an armed Head Tell me, thou unknown power FIRST WITCH: He knows thy thought; Hear his speech, but say thou nought. FIRST APPARITION: Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth: beware Macduff, 70 Beware the Thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough. Descends Whate er thou art, for thy good caution, thanks; Thou hast harped my fear aright. But one word more FIRST WITCH: He will not be commanded. Here s another, More potent than the first. 75 Thunder. [Enter] SECOND APPARITION, a bloody Child SECOND APPARITION: Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth Had I three ears, I d hear thee. SECOND APPARITION: Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth. Descends 80 Then live, Macduff, what need I fear of thee? But yet I ll make assurance double sure And take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live, That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies, And sleep in spite of thunder. Thunder. [Enter] THIRD APPARITION, a Child crowned, with a tree in his hand What is this, 85 That rises like the issue of a king And wears upon his baby-brow the round And top of sovereignty? ALL THE WITCHES: Listen, but speak not to t. THIRD APPARITION: Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are. 90 Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him. Descends That will never be: Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earthbound root? Sweet bodements, good. 95

4 Rebellious dead, rise never till the wood Of Birnam rise, and our high-place Macbeth Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath To time and mortal custom. Yet my heart Throbs to know one thing. Tell me, if your art 100 Can tell so much, shall Banquo s issue ever Reign in this kingdom? ALL THE WITCHES: Seek to know no more.

5 PASSAGE 4 Act 4, Scene 3, Lines My children too? ROSS: Wife, children, servants, all That could be found. And I must be from thence? My wife killed too? ROSS: I have said. Be comforted. 215 Let s make us med cines of our great revenge To cure this deadly grief. He has no children. All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O hell-kite! All? What, all my pretty chickens and their dam 220 At one fell swoop? Dispute it like a man. I shall do so; But I must also feel it as a man; I cannot but remember such things were 225 That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on, And would not take their part? Sinful Macduff They were all struck for thee. Naught that I am, Not for their own demerits but for mine, Fell slaughter on their souls. Heaven rest them now. 230 Be this the whetstone of your sword, let grief Convert to anger. Blunt not the heart, enrage it. O, I could play the woman with mine eyes And braggart with my tongue. But gentle heavens, Cut short all intermission. Front to front 235 Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself; Within my sword s length set him. If he scape, Heaven forgive him too. This tune goes manly. Come, go we to the king; our power is ready; Our lack is nothing but our leave. Macbeth 240 Is ripe for shaking, and the powers above Put on their instruments. Receive what cheer you may: The night is long that never finds the day. Exeunt