Act three: Blood and Violence

Act three

Violence

Macbeth: “We hear our bloody cousins are bestoyed

In England and Ireland, not confessing

Their cruel parricide” p.41 (29-31)

This is said by Macbeth and says the violence suspected by Duncans children.

Macbeth: “For Banquo’s issue have i filled my mind;

For them the gracious Duncan have i murdered” p.42 (65-66)

This is said by Macbeth while he is contemplating the murder he has comited because he realizes that he killed Duncan for Banquo’s son because their son is gonna become king so his reing is going to be short lived.

Banquo: “O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!

Thou mayst revenge. O slave! [Dies.]” p.49 (17-18)

Banquo and his son Fleance are being attacked by three murderers. Banquo tells  Fleance to run so he doesn’t get killed. Although Feance was able to get away, Banquo was not as lucky for he is killed in the ambush.  It is also in this moment that he declares that he is going to have revenge on the person that has killed him and threatened the life of his son.

Macbeth: “Banquo, thy soul flight,

If it find heaven, must find it out tonight” p.45 (141-142)

Macbeth says this after he has hired the murderers to kill Banquo. It foreshadows the violence to come with Banquo and his son Fleance because it says that if he is supposed to go to Heaven rather than Hell it will be decided tonight since he is going to die.

Macbeth: “And with thy bloody invisible hand

Cancel and tear to peices that great bond

Which keeps me pale” p.48 (48-50)

Macbeth is saying to Lady Macbeth that the murder of Banquo is going to be invisible so that it will go over unoticed and that way he doesn’t have to feel scared or guitly.

Blood

Macbeth: “So is he mine, and in such bloody distance

That every minute of his being thrusts

Against my near’st of life…” p.44 (116-118)

This is said by Macbeth when he is talking to the murderers he is hiring and he is explaining that there is going to be blood shed because until Banquo is dead he is not going to be complete.

Macbeth: “Blood hath been shed ere now..” p.53 (76)

This is said by Macbeth after he saw Banquo’s ghost and he is saying that since the murders have been comited there’S no way to go back as it was before.

Macbeth: “There’s blood upon thy face” p.50 (12-13)

That’s said by Macbeth to one of the murderers becasue he is putting the conseuences and guilt of Banquo’s death onto the murderers and removing the blame from him as much as possible.

Macbeth: “It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood.” p.55  (122)

Macbeth says this as he starts getting paranoid about Banquo’s murder and he thinks there’s going to be revenge.

Macbeth: “I am in blood

Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more,

Returning were as tedious as go o’er.”p.56 (136-139)

Macbeth says that he has gone too far in his plan to stop. He must continue to remove those who threaten his power, like Fleance, Banquo’s son, who the witches said would also be king. He is in over his head and that there is no going back now...