1. See if you can put these quotations in order. They are all Macbeth.
2. Of course, make sure these lines are annotated in your text.
3. Use the quotations as a guide to understand a narrative about how Macbeth and his relationship to the witches, his ambition, and evil changes as the play progresses.
This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill,
Why hath it given me earnest of success,
Commencing in a truth?
The things that should go along with old age, like honor,
love obedience, and loyal friends, I cannot hope to have.
Instead, I have passionate but quietly whispered curses,
people who honor me with their words but not
in their hearts...
If chance will have me king, why, chance may
Crown me
Without my stir.
In every one of the lord's households I have a servant
paid to spy for me. Tomorrow while its still
early I will go see the witches.
The service and the loyalty I owe
In doing it pays itself. Your highness’ part
Is to receive our duties,
I have walked so far into this
river of blood that even if I stopped now, it would be
as hard to go back to being good as it is to keep killing
people.
Stars hide you fires;
Let not light see my black and deep desires.
Out out brief candle. Life is nothing more than an illusion.
It's like a poor actor who struts and worries for his hour
on the stage and then is never heard from again.
Life is a story told by an idiot, full of noise and
emotional disturbance but devoid of meaning.
I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself
And falls on th’ other.
We will proceed no further in this business.
…wherefore could not I pronounce “Amen”?
I had most need of blessing, and “Amen”
Stuck in my throat.
I am afraid to think what I have done;
Look on’t again I dare not.
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand?
To know my deed, ‘twere best not know myself.
Had I but died an hour before this chance,
I had lived a blessed time, for from this instant
There’s nothing serious in mortality.
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