Loft Essay
Act 3 Quotes
Directions: Identify the speaker and the significance of the following quotes from Act 1. Don’t forget to use literary devices such as theme, dramatic irony, etc. Be specific! Use names! You should have a small paragraph for each one.
1. “Thou hast it now – King, Cawdor, Glamis, all as the Weird Women promised, and I fear thou played’st most foully for ‘it”
Speaker:Banquo
Literary Device & Meaning: the theme for this quote could be, things aren’t what they seem. This quote is said during Banquo’s soliloquy, when he starts to realize that maybe Macbeth might have cheated fate and done something for the prophecy to come true. Literally, this quote means: he has it all! King, Cawdor, Glamis, everything the weird women promised, and I fear that he didn’t play fairly for it’’.
Soliloquy. Banquo is suspicious.
2. “Naught’s had, all spent, where our desire is got without content.”
Speaker: Lady Macbeth
Meaning: this quote means that if you’ve gotten what you want but you’re still not happy, you’ve basically spent everything and gained nothing. This quote is said when Lady Macbeth is seeking for her husband because she is worried about it.
3. “Better be with the dead, whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, than on the torture of the mind to lie in restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave. After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well.”
Speaker:Macbeth
Meaning: in this quote Macbeth is whining to his wife about how terrible he feels of the murder and how concerned he is with everything that it’s caused. He states that he would rather be dead than have to endure this never ending sleep deprivation torture. He says that they killed those men so they could gain their own peace, when really all they did was the opposite. Duncan lies in his grave through with his life’s troubles and he’s sleeping well. This compares Macbeth’s actual situation to a dead person’s.
4. “There the grown serpent lies. The worm that’s fled hath
Directions: Identify the speaker and the significance of the following quotes from Act 1. Don’t forget to use literary devices such as theme, dramatic irony, etc. Be specific! Use names! You should have a small paragraph for each one.
1. “Thou hast it now – King, Cawdor, Glamis, all as the Weird Women promised, and I fear thou played’st most foully for ‘it”
Speaker:Banquo
Literary Device & Meaning: the theme for this quote could be, things aren’t what they seem. This quote is said during Banquo’s soliloquy, when he starts to realize that maybe Macbeth might have cheated fate and done something for the prophecy to come true. Literally, this quote means: he has it all! King, Cawdor, Glamis, everything the weird women promised, and I fear that he didn’t play fairly for it’’.
Soliloquy. Banquo is suspicious.
2. “Naught’s had, all spent, where our desire is got without content.”
Speaker: Lady Macbeth
Meaning: this quote means that if you’ve gotten what you want but you’re still not happy, you’ve basically spent everything and gained nothing. This quote is said when Lady Macbeth is seeking for her husband because she is worried about it.
3. “Better be with the dead, whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, than on the torture of the mind to lie in restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave. After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well.”
Speaker:Macbeth
Meaning: in this quote Macbeth is whining to his wife about how terrible he feels of the murder and how concerned he is with everything that it’s caused. He states that he would rather be dead than have to endure this never ending sleep deprivation torture. He says that they killed those men so they could gain their own peace, when really all they did was the opposite. Duncan lies in his grave through with his life’s troubles and he’s sleeping well. This compares Macbeth’s actual situation to a dead person’s.
4. “There the grown serpent lies. The worm that’s fled hath