Banquet Scene

• Macbeth's guilt plan?

  'Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold'

  • Repetitive sentence structure shows how he is trying to keep a calm and steady pace but failing

  'It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood'

  • Repetition of 'blood' highlights it constantly being on Macbeth's mind
• Deteriorating marriage plan?

  'Are you a man?'

  • Fiercely toned rhetorical question shows Lady Macbeth's anger as well as their interesting power dynamic.

  'What, quite unmann'd in folly'

  • Repeating her insulting point shows her desperation
• Guilty behavior plan?

  'Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake thy gory locks at me'

  • Word choice of 'gory' has connotations of blood and dirt. This tells the listening thanes that harm has been done to the ghost

  'O valiant cousin'

  • Word choice of 'valiant' has connotations of courage and determination
  • Word choice of 'cousin' shows he is seen as family
• Points covered?


  1. Macbeth's guilt
  2. Deteriorating relationship
  3. Macbeth's suspicious behavior