In Scene Three, One of the Witches Tells a Story About a Sailor S Wife. Paraphrase (Summarise)

Act 1 Tasks:

Task 1: In scene three, one of the witches tells a story about a sailor’s wife. Paraphrase (summarise) the story. What does this show is about these “weird” sisters? How is the audience meant to feel about them?

Task 2: So much has happened to Macbeth in just one act! Create a one-page diary entry for him detailing his actions, emotions and desires in Act 1. Be specific and use sensory details to help us “see” what you’re writing about and try to mention the other characters.

Task 3: How does Lady Macbeth suggest she and her husband should act when Duncan comes to visit? Why is this important?

Quotes task: For the following table, you need to say what the quote means, and why it is important. What does the quote show us about an event or a character?

Quote What does it mean? (Basic What does it show us/why is it translation) important? “Fair is foul and foul is fair” “Brave Macbeth- well he deserves that name” “Why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair…?” “Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires.” “I do fear thy nature; it is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way” “Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty” “Look like th’ innocent flower, but be the serpent under ‘t” “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition” “When you durst do it, then you were a man” I would…have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out” “False face must hide what the false heart doth know”