“O, full of scorpions is

my mind, dear wife!”“We are yet

but young in deed.”

• Banquo’s contemplations

• witches’ prophecy

• Macbeth’s contemplations

• Banquo’s death

• the futility of sin: all he’s done is for Banquo’s descendents

“Upon my head they plac’d a fruitless crown,

And put a barren scepter in my gripe,

Thence to be wrench’d with an unlineal hand,

No son of mine succeeding. If’t be so,

For Banquo’s issue have I fil’d my mind,

For them the gracious Duncan have I murder’d,

Put rancors in the vessel of my peace

Only for thee, and mine eternal jewel

Given to the common enemy of man,

To make them kings—the seed of Banquo kings!”

• Banquo’s contemplations

• witches prophecy

• Macbeth’s contemplations

• manipulation of Banquo’s murderers

• Lady Macbeth

• unfulfilled

• distressed

• Macbeth

• brooding

• marriage relationship

• no longer protecting each other out of affection, but as fellow partners in crime

• no longer share their feelings or actions with each other

• Lady Macbeth

• unfulfilled

• distressed

• Macbeth

• brooding

• invokes evil to help him in his purpose

“Come, seeing Night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful

day, And with thy bloody and invisible

hand, Cancel and tear to pieces that

great bond Which keeps me pale!”