© Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. All rights reserved.NOTESThat fears a painted devil. If he do bleed,
I’ll gild^11 the faces of the grooms withal,
For it must seem their guilt. [Exit. Knock within.]
Macbeth. Whence is that knocking?
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,^12
Making the green one red.
[Enter Lady Macbeth.]Lady Macbeth. My hands are of your color, but I shame
To wear a heart so white. [Knock.] I hear a knocking
At the south entry. Retire we to our chamber.
A little water clears us of this deed:
How easy is it then! Your constancy
Hath left you unattended.^13 [Knock.] Hark! more knocking.
Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us
And show us to be watchers.^14 Be not lost
So poorly in your thoughts.
Macbeth. To know my deed, ’twere best not know myself.
[Knock.]
Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!
[Exit.]⌘ ⌘ ⌘Scene iii • Macbeth’s castle.
[Enter a Porter. Knocking within.]
Porter. Here’s a knocking indeed! If a man were porter^1
of hell gate, he should have old^2 turning the key.
[Knock.] Knock, knock, knock! Who’s there, i’ th’
name of Beelzebub?^3 Here’s a farmer, that
hanged himself on th’ expectation of plenty.^4 Come
in time! Have napkins enow^5 about you; here you’ll
sweat for ’t. [Knock.] Knock, knock! Who’s there, in
th’ other devil’s name? Faith, here’s an equivocator,
that could swear in both the scales against
either scale;^6 who committed treason enough for
God’s sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven. O,
come in, equivocator. [Knock.] Knock, knock, knock!
Who’s there? Faith, here’s an English tailor come
hither for stealing out of a French hose:^7
come in, tailor. Here you may roast your goose.^855- gild paint.
60- incarnadine (ihn KAHR nuh deen)
redden.
65- Your constancy... unattended
Your firmness of purpose has
left you. - watchers up late.
70- porter doorkeeper.
- should have old would have
plenty of. - Beelzebub (bee EHL zuh buhb)
chief devil.
5- a farmer... plenty a farmer
who hoarded grain, hoping
the prices rise after a bad
harvest. - enow enough.
- an equivocator... scale a
liar who could make two
contradictory statements and
swear both were true.
10 - stealing... hose stealing some
cloth from the hose while
making them. - goose pressing iron.^15
equivocate (ih KWIHV uh kayt) v.
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Interpret Symbols
Students may have marked Scene ii,
lines 55–69, during their first read. Use
these lines to help students understand how
Shakespeare uses symbols to increase the
tension in the play. Encourage them to talk
about the annotations that they marked. You
may want to model a close read with the class
based on the highlights shown in the text.
ANNOTATE: Have students mark details
in these lines that allude to blood, or have
students participate while you highlight them.QuEsTiON: Guide students to consider what
these details might tell them. Ask what a
reader can infer from the references to blood,
and accept student responses.
Possible response: Macbeth is anguished about
the blood on his hands. He says the bloodstain is
so deep that the ocean could not clean it. Lady
Macbeth tells him a little water will wash the
blood clean.CONCludE: Help students to formulate
conclusions about the importance of these
details in the text.
Possible response: Macbeth’s horror and guilt
over the murder make him feel he cannot ever
wash away the blood, that the blood would turn
the green water of the ocean red. Lady Macbeth
is much more collected about the murder. Here,
the images of blood reinforce Macbeth’s guilt
and fragile state of mind, while they highlight
Lady Macbeth’s cold-hearted treachery.
Remind students that symbols help authors
address abstract ideas, giving an object or an
action a deeper meaning.CLOSER LOOK
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strategic support
Comic Relief Call students’ attention to the Porter’s entrance in Scene iii, line 1. Tell
students that the entrance of the Porter shifts the mood from one of great tension
to one of lighthearted humor. This offers the audience some relief from the tension
that has mounted. The Porter’s soliloquy is meant to be comical. The Porter is drunk
and keeps pretending to see people: a farmer, an equivocator, and a tailor. But
those people are not really at the door and he is being silly. Other than the delay in
opening the door, there is no plot development.Additional English language support
is available in the Interactive Teacher’s
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