Macbeth

Macbeth Act 1 Scene 3 questions

ACT I, SCENE III

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

1. What is significant about the first words that Macbeth speaks in the play? (Line provided in the block above.) (3)

2. Write down two possible meanings of this line.

3. To which themes are these words related? (2) (2) Refer to lines 37-45 (What are these ... that you are so.)

4. The witches are women, and yet they have beards. Banquo mentions the choppy finger of the witch. To which theme is their appearance related? (2)

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What is significant about the first words that Macbeth speaks in the play?

A motif or recurring idea in the play is equivocation. There is the balance of the dark and the light, the good and the bad. Macbeth's first line reflects this. It foreshadows the rest of the play: the "good" and the "bad: always at play.

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