"Fair is foul and foul is fair:*Hover through the fog and filthy air.",Witches,Macbeth,Banquo,Lady Macbeth
"At the beginning of the play, the mood is set by this strange chant.",1,1
"So well thy words become thee as thy wounds,*They smack of honour both.",Duncan,Ross,Macduff,Angus
"A brave captain is commended by his commander in chief.",1,2
"Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapped in proof,*Confronted him with self-comparisons.",Ross,Macbeth,Duncan,Siward
"The King receives news of how his finest General conducted himself in battle.",1,2
"Go pronounce his present death,*And with his former title greet Macbeth.",Duncan,Captain,Hecate,Banquo
"Cawdor is sentenced to death and Macbeth is awarded his title as a reward for his valour against the rebels.",1,2
"So foul and fair a day I have not seen.",Macbeth,Banquo,Witches,Malcolm
"Returning from a great victory, this Scottish General comments upon the stormy weather.",1,3
"....what are these,*So withered,and so wild in their attire?",Banquo,Macbeth,Lady Macbeth,Angus
"Two of Scotland's finest Generals encounter three strange creatures on the heath.",1,3
"Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear*Things that do sound so fair?",Banquo,Macbeth,Lady Macbeth,Macduff
"The witches' first predictions seem to unnerve the man to whom they are addressed.",1,3
"If you can look into the seeds of time,*And say which grain will grow and which will not,*Speak then to me!",Banquo,Macbeth,Hecate,Lady Macduff
"The speaker envies the great fortune predicted for his companion, and demands that his future be foretold as well.",1,3
"What, can the devil speak true?",Banquo,Macbeth,Macduff,Porter
"The witches' first prediction comes true. to the shock of those who heard it.",1,3
".....Why do you dress me*In borrowed robes?",Macbeth,Lady Macbeth,Banquo,Donalbain
"Addressed by a title not his own, the speaker queries the messenger of good news.",1,3
"The instruments of darkness tell us truths,*Win us with honest trifles, to betray's*In deepest consequence.",Banquo,Lady Macbeth,Lady Macduff,Macbeth
"Sceptical of the witches' motives, the speaker warns his friend against accepting their words too easily.",1,3
"If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me*Without my stir.",Macbeth,Malcolm,Fleance,Edward
"The speaker debates with himself whether or not to act to further his own ambition.",1,3
"Nothing in his life*Became him like the leaving of it.",Malcolm,Macduff,Siward,Duncan
"A report is made to King Duncan on the execution of the traitor, Cawdor.",1,4
"....There's no art*To find the mind's construction in the face.",Duncan,Lady Macbeth,Macduff,Menteith
"The speaker reveals how he is unable to judge the character of those who should be loyal to him.",1,4
"I have begun to plant thee, and will labour*To make thee full of growing.",Duncan,Banquo,Malcolm,Macduff
"A successful soldier is promised rewards by his ruler.",1,4
"Stars, hide your fires,*Let not light see my black and deep desires.",Macbeth,Lady Macbeth,Banquo,Malcolm
"Almost overcome by his violent imagination, the speaker tries to control it.",1,4
"Yet do I fear thy nature;*It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness*To catch the nearest way.",Lady Macbeth,Hecate,Banquo,Duncan
"This person doubts Macbeth's ability to harden himself sufficiently to kill the King.",1,5
"....The raven himself is hoarse*That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan*Under my battlements.",Lady Macbeth,Macbeth,Macduff,Banquo
"The speaker sees Duncan's visit as a fateful opportunity to snatch power.",1,5
"Your face, my thane, is as a book where men*May read strange matters.",Lady Macbeth,Banquo,Macbeth,Lady Macduff
"A Thane receives advice to not reveal his thoughts on his face.",1,5
"....Look like the innocent flower, *But be the serpent under't.",Lady Macbeth,Macbeth,Witches,Banquo
"The speaker gives advice to a partner to use deceptive appearances to achieve his goal.",1,5
"If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well*It were done quickly.",Macbeth,Lady Macbeth,Banquo,Malcolm
"The speaker is having second thoughts about his planned course of violent action.",1,7
"We will proceed no further in this business.",Macbeth,Lady Macbeth,Banquo,Murderer
"The speaker has changed his mind about pursuing a risky plan.",1,7
"....Was the hope drunk*Wherein you dressed yourself?",Lady Macbeth,Macbeth,Banquo,Macduff
"A partner in crime is scolded for backing out of his planned action at the last moment.",1,7
"I dare do all that may become a man;*Who dares do more is none.",Macbeth,Macduff,Fleance,Donalbain
"Taunted for his lack of courage, the speaker defends himself.",1,7
"But screw your courage to the sticking- place,*And we'll not fail.",Lady Macbeth,Macbeth,Macduff,Malcolm
"These words are used to encourage someone who is caught in indecision over an ambitious plan.",1,7
"Away and mock the time with fairest show*False face must hide what false heart doth know.",Lady Macbeth,Macbeth,Witches,Ross
"This advice is offered by the speaker both to his partner and himself.",1,7
"I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters.",Banquo,Macbeth,Lady Macbeth,Old Man
"The speaker confides to the person who shares secret knowledge with him.",2,1
"Is this a dagger which I see before me,*The handle toward my hand?",Macbeth,Banquo,Ghost,Lady Macbeth
"Murder is in the air, and this character's imagination almost overcomes him.",2,1
"That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold.",Lady Macbeth,Macbeth,Doctor,Macduff
"Preparations for murder, including drugging the guards, have been completed by this character.",2,2
"Methought I heard a voice cry 'sleep no more!'*Macbeth doth murder sleep.",Macbeth,Lady Macbeth,Malcolm,Macduff
"Immediately after a murder, guilty thoughts trouble the mind of the murderer.",2,2
"....The sleeping and the dead*Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood*That fears a painted devil.",Lady Macbeth,Macbeth,Doctor,Banquo
"This speaker claims to have no fear of dead bodies, and undertakes to return to the murder scene.",2,2
"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood*Clean from my hand?",Macbeth,Lady Macbeth,Banquo,Murderer
"Overwhelmed by guilt, a murderer sees the terrible consequences of killing an innocent man.",2,2
"My hands are of your colour, but I shame*To wear a heart so white.",Lady Macbeth,Macbeth,Duncan,Macdonwald
"The speaker tries to shame a partner in crime out of the sudden fear that overwhelms him after the murder.",2,2
"Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst.",Macbeth,Ross,Angus,Macduff
"The murderer regrets the crime and wishes that it could be undone.",2,2
"Here's knocking indeed. If a man were porter of*hell-gate, he should have old turning the key.",Porter,Macbeth,Ross,Witches
"Early visitors to Macbeth's castle wake someone to open the gate to them.",2,3
"....the obscure bird*Clamoured the livelong night. some say the earth*Was feverous and did shake.",Lennox,Old Man,Ross,Macduff
"This witness saw strange and terrible events on the night of King Duncan's murder.",2,3
"O horror, horror, horror!*Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee.",Macduff,Ross,Lennox,Lady Macbeth
"The murder of the King has just been discovered.",2,3
"Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight*With a new Gorgon.",Macduff,Ross,Donalbain,Lady Macbeth
"Too shocked to describe what he has seen, the speaker advises his listeners to view the murder scene themselves.",2,3
"Had I but died an hour before this chance,*I had lived a blessed time.",Macbeth,Macduff,Lady Macbeth,Lennox
"The speaker expresses a double sorrow at the killing of King Duncan.",2,3
"Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious,*Loyal and neutral, in a moment? no man.",Macbeth,Macduff,Malcolm,Siward
"Criticised for a sudden violent action, the speaker justifies himself.",2,3
"To show an unfelt sorrow is an office*Which the false man does easy.",Malcolm,Donalbain,Fleance,Macduff
"The speaker is not convinced by the apparent sorrow shown by all after the murder of King Duncan.",2,3
"....Where we are*There's daggers in men's smiles.",Donalbain,Malcolm,Macduff,Ross
"One murder has been committed and this speaker believes he may well be the next victim.",2,3
"A falcon towering in her pride of place,*was by a mousing owl, hawked at and killed.",Old Man,Ross,Macduff,Menteith
"The speaker reports on unnatural events occurring since Duncan's murder.",2,4
"Thou hast it now, King, Glamis, all,*As the weird women promised; and I fear*thou play'dst most foully for't.",Banquo,Macbeth,Ross,Macduff
"The speaker is suspicious of the way in which Macbeth has reached the throne.",3,1
"I must become a borrower of the night*For a dark hour or twain.",Banquo,Hecate,Macbeth,Lady Macbeth
"This answer is given to Macbeth, when he enquires the speaker's plans.",3,1
"Fail not our feast.",Macbeth,Lady Macbeth,Duncan,Witches
"Banquo is encouraged (insincerely) to attend a Banquet.",3,1
"....To be thus is nothing,*But to be safely thus.",Macbeth,Lady Macbeth,Banquo,Witches
"Having fulfilled his ambition, the speaker finds that it is not enough.",3,1
"'Tis safer to be that which we destroy*Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.",Lady Macbeth,Macbeth,Hecate,Lady Macduff
"The speaker begins to understand the full consequences of the crime.",3,2
"We have scorched the snake, not killed it.",Macbeth,Lady Macbeth,Macduff,Seyton
"The speaker realises that one murder is not enough to be safe.",3,2
"O, full of scorpions is my mind!",Macbeth,Lady Macbeth,Malcolm,Hecate
"The speaker uses this vivid metaphor to express his agonies of guilt and fear.",3,2
"....Safe in a ditch he bides,*With twenty trenched gashes on his head.",Murderer,Macbeth,Banquo,Lennox
"A report of Banquo's death.",3,4
"Thou canst not say I did it; never shake*Thy gory locks at me.",Macbeth,Lady Macbeth,Macduff,Ghost
"A victim returns as a ghost to haunt his killer.",3,4
"This is the very painting of your fear.",Lady Macbeth,Doctor,Caithness,Donalbain
"The speaker taunts a partner in crime for cowardice.",3,4
"Avaunt, and quit my sight!",Macbeth,Lady Macbeth,Lady Macduff,Banquo
"The ghost is commanded to leave.",3,4
"By the pricking of my thumbs,*Something wicked this way comes.",Witch,Lady Macbeth,Messenger,Murderer
"The speaker senses the approach of Macbeth.",4,1
"Beware the Thane of Fife.",1st apparition,2nd apparition,Witches,Macduff
"Macbeth is warned about Macduff.",4,1
"Be bloody, bold and resolute; laugh to scorn*The power of man, for none of woman born*Shall harm Macbeth.",2nd apparition,1st apparition,Witches,Macduff
"Macbeth is misled by this ambiguous promise.",4,1
"Macbeth shall never vanquished be until*great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill*Shall come against him.",3rd apparition,2nd apparition,witches,Hecate
"A misleading prediction which gives Macbeth false confidence.",4,1
"....From this moment*The very firstlings of my heart shall be*The firstlings of my hand.",Macbeth,Macduff,Malcolm,Lady Macduff
"The speaker regrets not acting sooner. In future he will act with less hesitation.",4,1
"Poor bird, thou'dst never fear the net nor lime,*The pitfall nor the gin.",Lady Macduff,Boy,Lady Macbeth,Macduff
"A child is comforted in a time of worry and approaching danger.",4,2
"I doubt some danger does approach you nearly.*If you will take a homely man's advice,*Be not found here.",Messenger,Lennox,Seyton,Malcolm
"A family is warned to flee from the evil deeds of Macbeth.",4,2
"This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,*Was once thought honest.",Malcolm,Macduff,Ross,Caithness
"The speaker reveals his mistrust of everybody, even his companion.",4,3
"I think our country sinks beneath the yoke;*It weeps, it bleeds....",Malcolm,Ross,Lennox,Menteith
"The speaker grieves for the fate of Scotland under the rule of Macbeth.",4,3
"....Not in the legions*Of horrid hell can come a devil more damned*In evils to top Macbeth.",Macduff,Malcolm,Ross,Old Man
"The speaker does not believe his companion's claim to be worse than Macbeth.",4,3
"And my more-having would be as a sauce*To make me hunger more.",Malcolm,Donalbain,Caithness,Macbeth
"The speaker claims that his greed and lust would never be satisfied.",4,3
"These evils thou repeatst upon thyself*Hath banished me from Scotland.",Macduff,Macbeth,Malcolm,Donalbain
"A Thane despairs, believing that Scotland is doomed to one vile ruler or another.",4,3
"....Alas poor country,*Almost afraid to know itself.",Ross,Macduff,Malcolm,Lennox
"Reports from Scotland reveal the dreadful state caused by Macbeth's tyranny.",4,3
"Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes*Savagely slaughtered.",Ross,Menteith,Malcolm,Messenger
"Macduff learns the truth about the tragedy which has befallen his family.",4,3
"What, all my pretty chickens and their dam,*At one fell swoop.",Macduff,Lady Macbeth,Lady Macduff,Duncan
"The speaker grieves, on hearing tragic news.",4,3
"Be this the whetstone of your sword. let grief*Convert to anger.",Malcolm,Ross,Lady Macbeth,Witches
"Macduff is advised to seek revenge for the murder of his wife and children.",4,3
"Within my sword's length set him; if he scape,*Heaven forgive him too.",Macduff,Malcolm,Siward,Donalbain
"The speaker vows to seek revenge for his personal tragedy.",4,3
"What is it she does now? look how she rubs her hands.",Doctor,Gentlewoman,Seyton,Macbeth
"Lady Macbeth is observed sleepwalking.",5,1
"Yet who would have thought the old man to have had*so much blood in him?",Lady Macbeth,Macbeth,Macduff,Hecate
"In a trance, the speaker reveals inner guilt.",5,1
"The Thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now?",Lady Macbeth,Macbeth,Lady Macduff,Seyton
"In a trance, the speaker reveals inner guilt.",5,1
"All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this*little hand.",Lady Macbeth,Macbeth,Lady Macduff,Duncan
"The speaker is overcome by the guilt of past deeds.",5,1
"Foul whisperings are abroad. Unnatural deeds*Do breed unnatural troubles.",Doctor,Lennox,Ross,Old Man
"Having observed guilty secrets being revealed, the speaker gives his opinion on the cause of the guilty actions.",5,1
"He cannot buckle his distempered cause*Within the belt of rule.",Caithness,Menteith,Angus,Macduff
"This observer comments on Macbeth's inability to govern the country successfully.",5,2
"....Now does he feel his title*Hang loose about him,like a giant's robe*Upon a dwarfish thief.",Angus,Menteith,Caithness,Siward
"Late in the play, Macbeth is clearly seen to be unworthy to be King.",5,2
"The mind I sway by and the heart I bear*Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.",Macbeth,Macduff,Duncan,Caithness
"Buoyed up by false promises, the speaker remains brave in the face of danger.",5,3
"The devil damn thee black, thou cream- faced loon.*Where gott'st thou that goose look?",Macbeth,Lady Macbeth,Witch,Porter
"A messenger bearing bad news is cursed for his troubles.",5,3
"I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked.",Macbeth,Macduff,Young Siward,Banquo
"With no escape in sight, the speaker vows to fight to the end.",5,3
"Now near enough; your leafy screens throw down.*And show like those you are.",Malcolm,Macduff,Siward,Captain
"The command is given to the English army to discard their camouflage.",5,4
"Do we but find the tyrant's power tonight,*Let us be beaten if we cannot fight.",Siward,Macduff,Ross,Lennox
"The speaker is impatient for a meeting with Macbeth's forces.",5,6
"But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn,*Brandished by man that's of a woman born",Macbeth,Macduff,Witch,Banquo
"The speaker is unaware that he is relying on a false promise.",5,7
