Act 3 Questions

1. You have it all now, you're the King, Thane of Cawdor and Glamis, just as the weird women promised. But I suspect you cheated to win these titles. Although they also said that my descendants would be king, not yours. If what the withes say is true- what they said about you came true- then perhaps what they said about me will also come true. But shh! I will speak no more.
1. Banquo is thinking over everything that has happened. He thinks that Macbeth may have cheated to gain his new titles. he hopes that if the witches speak the truth, then what they said about him will come true.
2. He is afraid that Banquo knows that he killed Duncan. He is also worried that Banquo's sons will become king because he has no offspring to become king. Macbeth would rather have his own children become king. 
3. Macbeth killed Duncan for Banquo's sons. He ruined his own peace so they could become king one day.
4. Macbeth tells them that Banquo made their life hell, not him. He asks them if they are just going to let Banquo get away with it.
5. SCENE 2
1. He feels he is safe for the moment. He has killed the king and the crown will sit safely on his head, for awhile. He thinks that he will be in the same kind of danger as the previous king. He worries that the murderers won't complete their mission. (Which they don't, but you don't know that until scene three.)
2. Lady Macbeth asks Macbeth what he is going to about Banquo and Fleance. He tells her that it's better that she doesn't know the details until after the deed is done. Then she can just applaud him for it. 
3. He is talking to the night asking it to fall so Banquo can be murdered without anyone knowing.  Macbeth wants the bond (Banquo's life) to be broken. 
4. Usually in night, evil things happen or evil things come out. Night and sleep aren't safe anymore because Macbeth has chosen these times to kill the people he feels threatened by. Macbeth can't sleep, but the dead (Duncan) can. Crows are said to be black agents, which symbolizes the murderers. 
6. SCENE 3
1. This is the scene were the first two murderers are joined by a third that was sent by Macbeth to help them. The murderers attack Banquo and kill him. To their dismay, Fleance has fled and they have failed half of their mission.
7. SCENE 4
1. Macbeth sees the ghost of Banquo during his celebratory feast. He goes ballistic and makes a complete fool of himself in front of a lot of important people.
2. Banquo is the grown serpent and Fleance is the young snake. Banquo is lying dead in a ditch while Fleance has ran off. Macbeth really isn't afraid of Fleance because as of right know, he poses no threat. Macbeth will worry about him in a later date. 
3. It reinforces the presence of supernatural things motif. It's also representation of Macbeth's guilt, which is making him crazy. 
4. Blood symbolizes guilt.
5. She tries to calm down the guests and tell them that Macbeth in sick. Macbeth embarrasses Lady Macbeth so much that she starts apologizing to the guests. 
8. SCENE 5
1. She is mad at the witches because they didn't include her in their plot to trick Macbeth into stopping at nothing to become king. Hecate chews them out an tells them to notify her the next time they meet with Macbeth. 
2. I don't think t hat Shakespeare wrote this scene. It doesn't follow the 10 syllable pattern that the rest of Shakespeare's work does. Hecate's speak is very rhymy and sing-songy. Hecate also shows up out of no where. She has no relevance to the movement of the plot. She is just there and won't appear through out the rest of the book. 
9. SCENE 6
1. Lennox compares Fleance to Donalbain and Malcolm. It has been said that Malcolm and Donalbain may have killed their father because they fled. Macduff, has gone to England to make an allegiance with the king and raise an army. Together, they are going to bring down the unworthy King Macbeth.
2. This scene sets up a great battle in the end of the book between Macbeth ad Macduff's army. 
3. Macduff and his army will hopefully end Macbeth's reign. Since Macbeth killed sleep, bringing him down will hopefully let Scotland sleep peacefully.