© Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. All rights reserved.NOTESMacduff. I’ll make so bold to call.
For ’tis my limited service.^14 [Exit Macduff.]
Lennox. Goes the king hence today?
Macbeth. He does: he did appoint so.
Lennox. The night has been unruly. Where we lay,
Our chimneys were blown down, and, as they say,
Lamentings heard i’ th’ air, strange screams of death.
And prophesying with accents terrible
Of dire combustion^15 and confused events
New hatched to th’ woeful time: the obscure bird^16
Clamored the livelong night. Some say, the earth
Was feverous and did shake.
Macbeth. ’Twas a rough night.
Lennox. My young remembrance cannot parallel
A fellow to it.
[Enter Macduff.]
Macduff. O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart
Cannot conceive nor name thee.
Macbeth and Lennox. What’s the matter?
Macduff. Confusion^17 now hath made his masterpiece.
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
The Lord’s anointed temple,^18 and stole thence
The life o’ th’ building.
Macbeth. What is ’t you say? The life?
Lennox. Mean you his Majesty?
Macduff. Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight
With a new Gorgon:^19 do not bid me speak;
See, and then speak yourselves. Awake, awake!
[Exit Macbeth and Lennox.]
Ring the alarum bell. Murder and Treason!
Banquo and Donalbain! Malcolm! Awake!
Shake off this downy sleep, death’s counterfeit,
And look on death itself! Up, up, and see
The great doom’s image!^20 Malcolm! Banquo!
As from your graves rise up, and walk like sprites,^21
To countenance^22 this horror. Ring the bell.
[Bell rings. Enter Lady Macbeth.]
Lady Macbeth. What’s the business,
That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley^23
The sleepers of the house? Speak, speak!
Macduff. O gentle lady,
’Tis not for you to hear what I can speak:
The repetition, in a woman’s ear,- limited service assigned duty.
55- combustion confusion.
- obscure bird bird of darkness,
the owl.
6065- Confusion destruction.
- The Lord’s anointed temple the
King’s body.^70 - Gorgon Medusa, a
mythological monster whose
appearance was so ghastly
that those who looked at it
turned to stone.
75 - great doom’s image likeness of
Judgment Day. - sprites spirits.
- countenance be in keeping
with.
8085sacrilegious (sak ruh LIHJ uhs) adj.
treating a religious object, person,
or belief with disrespectcounterfeit (KOWN tuhr fiht) n. false
imitation- parley war conference.
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Explore Dialogue
Students may have marked Scene iii, lines
54–64 during their first read. Use these lines
to help students compare dialogue between
Macbeth and Lennox. 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 show short, concise dialogue,
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 exchange between
the two men, and accept student responses.
Possible response: Lennox uses great detail to
describe the night he has experienced, making
reference to the owl that screeched all night and
other ominous sounds. Macbeth only describes
the night as being “a rough night.”
CONCLuDE: Help students to formulate
conclusions about the importance of these
details in the text. Ask students why the
author might have included these details.
Possible response: Macbeth’s terse responses
show that he is troubled and worried about the
forthcoming discovery of the king’s dead body.
This is made more evident when compared with
Lennox’s lengthy description of his experience.
Remind students that dialogue is important
not just for conveying what the characters
say, but how they say it. An author may use
short, halting sentences to indicate the mood
of the speaker. The result is often a feeling of
tension or agitation that can help the reader
infer the character’s state of mind.CLOSER LOOK
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