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1. What act / scene is it?
The act and scene in which the witches give Macbeth a prophecy is Act 1 Scene 3

2. What is the percentage of Macbeth’s moral values compared with his sense of ambition?
80% moral values 20% ambition.
This is because Macbeth decides to listen to the witches and take an interest in their prophecies, whilst still remaining a humble and noble man.

3. Key quotes from the scene
"Say from whence you owe this strange intelligence? Or why upon this blasted heath you stop our way with such prophetic greeting?”
"This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good, if ill, why hath it given me earnest of success commencing in a truth?”
"If chance will have me king, chance may crown me without my stir.”

4. Any key character changes or development?
In this scene, we do not really know much about Macbeth, but we can see that he is a humble, noble man and according to those who are with him at the time, it is very unlike him to believe in witchcraft and encourage the witches to continue speaking about his future.

5. What ideas / themes are presented through this?
The theme ‘witchcraft and magician can be presented within this scene, as well as the theme of ‘do not believe everything you hear’

6. Are there any significant symbols or imagery present in this scene?
The witches are symbolic, as they can represent the superstitious King James I, the man Macbeth was based off of, who was extremely passionate about superstitions and magic.

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Number 5 - Macbeth murders Banquo, Fleance flees

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Number 5 - Macbeth murders Banquo, Fleance flees

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1.  Act three, Scene three
2.  Ambition : 90% | Moral Values: 5%
3. Banquo: “O treachery! Fly, good fleance, fly, fly, fly Thou mayst revenge. O slave! 2nd Murderer: “We have lost best half of our affair”
4.  Macbeth becomes paranoid, Banquo dies
5.  Violence, death, paranoia, Masculinity
6. Light and Darkness
- Light = Fleance
- Dark = Macbeth
The murderers
- Recurring motif

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1. What act/scene is it?

Act 2, Scene 1 - 2
2. What is the Percentage of Macbeth's Moral Values compared to his sense of ambition?
His morals remain greater than his ambition at this point.
3. Key quotes from the scene
“I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise”
(looking at his hands) “this is a sorry sight”
4. Any key character changes or development?
At this point in the play, Macbeth starts to give into his ambition
5. What themes or ideas are presented through this?
Ambition, sanity, masculinity, guilt.
6. Are there any significant symbols or imagery present in this scene?
The floating dagger in this scene symbolises his descent into madness.

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1. What act/scene is it?

Act 5 Scene 5

2. What is the Percentage of Macbeth's Moral Values compared to his sense of ambition?
Ambition 90% and moral

3. Key quotes from the scene

“She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow”

“Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player  that struts and frets his hour upon the stage”

“Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”

4. Any key character changes or development?

At this point in the novel Macbeth only views her death as something that was bound to happen. If Lady Macbeth were to die at the beginning before Macbeth’s spiral into madness then he would have been hurt and in misery. I think that now murder is a common act to Macbeth he doesn’t feel for it.

5. What themes or ideas are presented through this?

The idea present in Lady Macbeth’s death is that Macbeth views her passing as that life is meaningless.

Here Macbeth for the first time feels a little bit regretful as he is too busy fighting to mourn over her death. He may also feel regret as if he didn’t carry out the murder then Lady Macbeth would not feel guilt and therefore it could have avoided her death.

Another idea present here is the fact Macbeth is reaching into realisation about life and the importance of it.

6. Are there any significant symbols or imagery present in this scene?

Symbol it that life is compared to a candles flame. ‘Brief candle’ that could mean that her death came early

Konrad -

Q1:

Act 5, Scene 5, page 2

Q2:

Morals:Ambition 30:70 When lady Macbeth kills hers of, Macbeth doesn't really care and proceeds to say that everyone will die eventually and that she is insignificant. He didn't care that she killed herself and just explained that as the days go by, more and more people will die one way or another. “She would have died later anyway. That news was bound to come someday. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. The days creep slowly along until the end of time. And every day that’s already happened has taken fools that much closer to their deaths. 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.”

Q3:

Macbeth -

Hang out our banners on the outward walls.

The cry is still “They come!” Our castle’s strength

Will laugh a siege to scorn. Here let them lie

Till famine and the ague eat them up.

Were they not forced with those that should be ours,

We might have met them dareful, beard to beard,

And beat them backward home.

A cry within of woman

What is that noise?

Seyton -

It is the cry of women, my good lord.

Exit

Macbeth -

I have almost forgot the taste of fears.

The time has been my senses would have cooled

To hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair

Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir

As life were in ’t. I have supped full with horrors.

Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts

Cannot once start me.

Enter Seyton

Wherefore was that cry?

Seyton -

The queen, my lord, is dead.

Macbeth -

She should have died hereafter.

There would have been a time for such a word.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

To the last syllable of recorded time,

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

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Number 6 - Macbeth decends into madness and see the ghost of Banquo - Act IV scene I

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Number 6 - Macbeth decends into madness and see the ghost of Banquo - Act IV scene I

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2. What is the percentage of Macbeth’s moral values compared to his sense of ambition?

In this scene, the percentage of Macbeth’s moral values compared to his sense of ambition is much higher as he is overwhelmed and consumed by a feeling of guilt for killing Banquo. We can see this since he is shouting at a ghost no one else at the banquet can see. This might be the result of his inner conflict with himself because of the guilt he feels for murdering Banquo and still has strong moral values because he cares. This is unlike the way he feels later in the book when characters like Lady Macbeth die. He shows no empathy or doesn’t express sadness.

3.  Key quotes from the scene

“Avaunt, and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee.

Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold.

Thou hast no speculation in those eyes

Which thou dost glare with!”

This quote is referring to Macbeth shouting at the ghost and telling it to get out of his sight, to stay in its grave because there is no marrow in its bones, it’s blood is cold, and it’s looking at him with eyes that can’t see.

When the murderer tells Macbeth that he has killed Banquo, he says, “safe in a ditch he bides with twenty trenchèd gashes on his head, to which Macbeth replies, “thanks for that.”

4. Any key character changes or development?

In this scene, a character change or development that occurs is Macbeth expressing his internal guilt for the first time from murdering Banquo and possibly realising his mistakes. Macbeth looses character in a way, has no control, is hallucinating, and gets angry at the visions and ghost he sees.

5. What themes or ideas are presented through this scene
Inner guilt and conflict

This is a reoccurring theme which is seen every time Macbeth reflects on his actions and feels bad about the death of Duncan and Banquo.

Ambition is stronger then moral values

This theme can be seen since Macbeth committed those acts in the first place
Ambition is a blessing and a curse
Guilt in an individual can manifest into fear and paranoia

6. Symbols and motifs
Ghosts, Crown Jewels

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8 - Macbeth kills macduffs wife and family

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8 - Macbeth kills macduffs wife and family

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Macbeth’s moral values: 10%

Macbeth’s ambition: 90%

Key quotes
“Let grief convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it.”

“... your wife and babes savagely slaughter’d...”
"I doub some danger does approach you nearly. If you will take a homely man’s advice, be not found here”
"He has killed me, mother. Run away, I pray you!”

Key character changes/development

Macduff, after hearing of the murder of his family, is enraged and set forth to kill macbeth

Macbeth gains a false sense of confidence and becomes more tyrannical, decides to do something without thinking of the consequences

Themes/ideas presented through this

ambition

Violence

Power

Madness

Tyranny

Significant symbols/imagery

Violence

Death

Anger

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1. What act/scene is it?
Act 1 Scene  3

2. What is the Percentage of Macbeth's Moral Values compared to his sense of ambition?
Moral Values: 60% Ambition: 40%

3. Key quotes from the scene
1. “All hail Macbeth! That shalt be king hereafter”
2. “Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear things that do sound so fair”
3. “So foul and fair a day I have not seen”

4. Any key character changes or development?
The most important part of this scene is where Macbeth is told that he will be king. He starts to become unsure of himself and doesn’t know whether to trust witches or not.

5. What themes or ideas are presented through this?
-Ambition: Macbeth was excited at the idea of becoming king

6. Are there any significant symbols or imagery present in this scene

-witches
-banquo

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During this scene Macbeth’s moral values compared to his sense of ambition is at an even scale at the beginning however when he learns of the witches prophecies that he will be king, suddenly the scale tips as his sense of ambition has grown. This is evident as we can see that he is demanding for more knowledge out of the witches “Speak, I charge you” this shows that his moral values are not being prioritised as he is not being respectful when speaking to others which is a moral law that each person should be treated equally.

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Event 4: Murders are sent to kill Malcolm and Donalbain 

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Event 4: Murders are sent to kill Malcolm and Donalbain 

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Event 4: Murders are sent to kill Malcolm and Donalbain 

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Event 4: Murders are sent to kill Malcolm and Donalbain 

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1.What act/ scene? Act 3 scene 1

2. Macbeth’s ambition was more influencial than his sense of morale values.

3. Macbeth: Than is his Father’s, must embrace the fate of that dark hour. Resolve yourselves apart.

Macbeth: Whose execution takes your enemy off, grapples you to the heart and love of us, who wear our health, but sickly in his life, which in his death were perfect.

Macbeth: Still it cried’ sleep no more

4.
Macbeth uses others to do his “dirty work “ which shows his political power and moral disregard for life.

5. Themes /idea
- Guilt
- Regret

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Macbeth Revisits the 3 Witches (Act 4 Scene 1)

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Macbeth Revisits the 3 Witches (Act 4 Scene 1)

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His ambition is 90% because he went to the witches to reassure himself that he is in power for his whole life and that nothing can threaten his control. His morals are 10% because he has lost a lot of his emotions and is blinded by power. The point in which he changes to 100% ambition is when he kills Macduffs family and doesn’t get upset when his wife dies.

“Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff.”
“none of woman born

Shall harm Macbeth.”

Before the scene he was worried about losing his power and feeling guilty about killing people. After the scene he was reassured that he is invincible and his character becomes more confident and brave.

Themes - Greed can blind you of your morals. False hope can make a big impact on future events.

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Event 2 - Lady Macbeth emasculated Macbeth 

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Event 2 - Lady Macbeth emasculated Macbeth 

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1. Act 1 Scene 7
2. At the start of the scene Macbeth moral values overarch his ambitious tendencies. After Lady Macbeths manipulated his point of view, his ambition grows higher.
3. “ Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life, and live a coward in thine own esteem, letting I dare not wait upon I would , like the poor cat I the adage”
“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 would
Be so much more the man”
“We will proceed no further in this business:
He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought
Golden opinions from all sorts of people,”

“I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.”
“I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this”
“I am settled, and bend up
Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. 80
Away, and mock the time with fairest show:
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”

4. In this point of the play, Macbeth’s mindset shifts. At the start of the scene, Macbeth believes that his act of ambition is wrong and unjust.

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1.) What act/scene is it?
Act V, Scene 8

2. What is the Percentage of Macbeth's Moral Values compared to his sense of ambition?
Ambition: 80%.   Moral Values: 20%

3. Key quotes from the scene
“I will not yield, to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s Feet, And to be baited with the rabble’s curse” - Page 171

“Thou losest labour. As easy mayst thou the interchant air. With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed. Let thy blade on vulnerable crests” - Page 170

4. Any key character changes or development?
Macbeth:
Macduff:

5. What themes or ideas are presented through this?
Violence: Presented through the battle of Macbeth and Macduff
Ambition: Macbeth shows his ambition to rule as King by not surrendering and being ruled by Malcolm

6. Are there any significant symbols or imagery present in this scene?

-Macbeth’s head being carried by Macduff shows that Macbeth has been defeated