Two important quotes and explain what they mean and why they’re important AND a soliloquy or an aside, explain its significance.
The Soliloquy
The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements. Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry 'Hold, hold!'
Summary
So the messenger is short of breath, like a hoarse raven, as he announces Duncan’s entrance into my fortress, where he will die. Come, you spirits that asist murderous thoughts, make me less like a woman and more like a man, and fill me from head to toe with deadly cruelty! She is basicly saying "Yo, help me to become an evil wench, so i can kill this man without any remorse!".
Quote One
ACT I:Scene II
How is't with me, when every noise appalls me?
What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
Summary
Hearing a knocking at his palace gate, Macbeth fears that he can never wash away the evidence of his guilt. He feels that wherever he goes and whatever he does the shadow of all the lives he has taken will haunt him and he will never escape it.
Quote Two
Act I:Scene III
What, can the devil speak true?
Summary
This quote is simply Banquo's reaction when it turns out that Macbeth has been named Thane of Cawdor, as the witches predicted. In this single sentence we see the surprise and disbelief that he feels.
A chosen scene that has been re-written into a modern version.
Original Version
ACT I: SCENE I. A desert place.
Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches
First Witch
When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Second Witch
When the hurlyburly's done,
When the battle's lost and won.
Third Witch
That will be ere the set of sun.
First Witch
Where the place?
Second Witch
Upon the heath.
Third Witch
There to meet with Macbeth.
First Witch
I come, Graymalkin!
Second Witch
Paddock calls.
Third Witch
Anon.
ALL
Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
Exeunt
Modern Version
ACT I: SCENE I. An empty junk yard.
Wind and hail . Enter three witches.
First Witch
So, when will we get together again.
When the wind and hail have began?
Second Witch
When the day is over?
When all the wars are over with?
Third Witch
That will be near the end of time.
First Witch
Where should it be?
Second Witch
Below the city, in the tunnels.
Third Witch
It’s there we will holla at Macbeth.
First Witch
I gotta go, I hear Gray.
Second Witch
Duty calls.
Third Witch
See yall later.
ALL
Wrong is right, right is wrong:
We were here and now we’re gone!
Exit
ACT I: SCENE I. A desert place.
Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches
First Witch
When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Second Witch
When the hurlyburly's done,
When the battle's lost and won.
Third Witch
That will be ere the set of sun.
First Witch
Where the place?
Second Witch
Upon the heath.
Third Witch
There to meet with Macbeth.
First Witch
I come, Graymalkin!
Second Witch
Paddock calls.
Third Witch
Anon.
ALL
Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
Exeunt
Modern Version
ACT I: SCENE I. An empty junk yard.
Wind and hail . Enter three witches.
First Witch
So, when will we get together again.
When the wind and hail have began?
Second Witch
When the day is over?
When all the wars are over with?
Third Witch
That will be near the end of time.
First Witch
Where should it be?
Second Witch
Below the city, in the tunnels.
Third Witch
It’s there we will holla at Macbeth.
First Witch
I gotta go, I hear Gray.
Second Witch
Duty calls.
Third Witch
See yall later.
ALL
Wrong is right, right is wrong:
We were here and now we’re gone!
Exit