Macbeth Act 3 Journal Entries
Directions: Cut and paste each quote from Act 3 into your journal. Then write down who said the quote. Paraphrase the quote (i.e. put the quote in your own words – do not copy from the modern translation!). Then say why the quote is important. You might need to discuss what is happening in the play at the point these words are spoken.
QUOTE #1:
“Thou hast it now – King, Cawdor, Glamis, all / As the Weird Women promised, and I fear / Thou played’st most foully for ‘t.”
Act 3, Scene 1, lines 1-3
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QUOTE #2:
“Naught’s had, all’s spent, / Where our desire is got without content. / ‘Tis safer to be that which we destroy / Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.”
Act 3, Scene 2, lines 6-9
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QUOTE #3:
“Then comes my fit again. I had else been perfect, / Whole as marble, founded as the rock, / As broad and general as the casing air. But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in / To saucy doubts and fears. – But Banquo’s safe?”
Act 3, Scene 4, lines 21-25
Speaker:
QUOTE #4:
“We hear our bloody cousins are bestowed / in England and in Ireland, not confessing / their cruel parricide, filling their hearers / With strange invention.”
Act 3, Scene 1, lines 30-34
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QUOTE #5:
“O proper stuff! / This is the very painting of your fear. / This is the air-drawn dagger which you said / Led you to Duncan.”
Act 3, Scene 4, lines 60-63
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QUOTE #6:
“I am in blood / Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o’er.”
Act 3, Scene 4, lines 136-138
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QUOTE #7:
“The time has been/ That, when the brains were out, the man would die, / And there an end. But now they rise again / With twenty mortal murders on their crowns / And push us from our stools.”
Act 3, Scene 4, lines 78-82
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