Macbeth Act 1

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair

Hover through the fog and filthy air” (Scene 1).

• The Witches

• Banquo

• Duncan

• Macbeth

“No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive

Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death,

And with his former title greet Macbeth” (Scene 2).

• Lady Macbeth

• Malcolm

• Duncan

• The witches

“But ‘tis strange.

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,

The instruments of darkness tell us truths,

Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s

In deepest consequence” (Scene 3).

• Banquo

• Malcolm

• Macbeth

• Duncan

“This supernatural soliciting

Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill,

Why hath it given me earnest of success,

Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor.

If good, why do I yield to that suggestion

Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair

And make my seated heart knock at my ribs” (Scene 3).

• Banquo

• Macbeth

• Lady Macbeth

• Malcolm

“Sons, kinsmen, thanes,

And you whose places are the nearest, know

We will establish our estate upon

Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter

The prince of Cumberland” (Scene 4).

• Banquo

• Macbeth

• Duncan

• The Witches

“The prince of Cumberland! That is a step

On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap,

For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires;

Let not light see my black and deep desires” (Scene 4).

• Macbeth

• Malcolm

• Duncan

• Banquo

“Yet do I fear thy nature;

It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness” (Scene 5).

• Macbeth

• Malcolm

• The Witches

• Lady Macbeth

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” (Scene 5)

• Duncan

• Lady Macbeth

• Malcolm

• Macbeth

“We will proceed no further in this business.

He hath honored me of late, and I have bought

Golden opinions from all sorts of people” (Scene 7).

• The witches

• Banquo

• Duncan

• Macbeth

“I have given suck, and know

How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me.

I would, while it was smiling in my face,

Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums

And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you

Have done to this” (Scene 7

• Duncan

• Banquo

• The witches

• Lady Macbeth