Act 4

• Malcom describing Macbeths change in character

  " Whose sole name blisters our tongue, was once thought honest "
• First apparition warning Macbeth

  " Beware Macduff; Beware the thane of Fife "
• Second apparition foreshadowing Macbeths descent to tyranny

  " Be bloody, bold and resolute "
• Second apparition giving Macbeths confidence that no one can harm him

  " For none of woman born shall harm Macbeth "
• Macbeth being shown his greatest threat Banquo's lineage

  " Thou art to like the spirit of Banquo: down! "

  • Breaks iambic pentameter with 11 syllables which the witches also do
• Lady Macduff is acknowledging the moral ambiguity of the world

  " Where to do harm is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly "
• Malcom listing all of Macbeths short comings as a king

  " Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful, sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin "
• Macduff learning that his kids have died

  " Your wife and babies savagely slaughter'd "
• Macduff processing emotions

  " But I must also feel it as a man "
• Malcom encouraging Macduff to kill Macbeth

  " Let grief convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it "