Act 3 — Macbeth — AQA GCSE English Literature 8702
AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
Act 3
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
Macbeth as king, Banquo's murder and Fleance's escape, the banquet and Banquo's ghost.
Key quotations: 'To be thus is nothing; / But to be safely thus', 'Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown', 'O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!', 'Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck', 'Come, seeling night', 'Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!', 'never shake / Thy gory locks at me', 'Are you a man?', 'I am in blood / Stepp'd in so far', 'Nought's had, all's spent'.
How the balance between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth shifts, and the banquet as a public collapse.
