Act IV, scene 1, lines 50-61
• Describe the imagery Macbeth uses in these lines.
• How is it significant?
Act IV, scene 1, lines 90-94
• What is the third piece of information Macbeth receives from the witches?
Act IV, scene 1, lines 144-156
• What does Macbeth vow to do in lines 146-148, “…the very firstlings of my heart shall be / the firstlings of my hand.”
• What does Macbeth decide to do about the threat of Macduff?
Act IV, scene 2, lines 30-60
• Why does Shakespeare includes this conversation between Lady Macduff and her child?
• What tone and effect are created by it?
Act IV, scene 2, lines 70-73
• How is Lady Macduff’s statement significant to the play as a whole (including its use of literary device)?
• “But I remember now / I am in this earthly world, where to do harm / is often laudable, to do good sometime / accounted dangerous folly.”
• Line 81: what happens to the Macduffs’ son?
Act IV, scene 3, lines 22-25
• “Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell: / Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, / yet grace must still look so.”
• What truth does Malcolm express here?
Act IV, scene 3, lines 22-25
• “Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell: / Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, / yet grace must still look so.”
• What theme is expressed?
• What literary device from Act I is reflected here?
Act IV, scene 3, 114-137
• Page 134--In lines 114-137 Malcolm reveals why he described himself as he did. What is his reason?
Act IV, scene 3, lines 141-158
• What can the King of England do?
• Where does this ability come from?
• Why does Shakespeare include this information—how is it significant?
Act IV, scene 3, lines 176-179
• What literary devices are present in this conversation between Ross and Macduff?
• Why does Ross give these answers to Macduff’s questions?
Act IV, scene 3, lines 189-192
• When Malcolm says, “We are coming thither[,]” who is “we”?
• Where are they going?
• How will this bring “comfort” ?