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Lennox. May’t please your Highness sit.
Macbeth. Here had we now our country’s honor roofed^16
Were the graced person of our Banquo present—
Who may I rather challenge for unkindness
Than pity for mischance!^17
Ross. His absence, sir.
Lays blame upon his promise. Please ’t your Highness
To grace us with your royal company?
Macbeth. The table’s full.
Lennox. Here is a place reserved, sir.
Macbeth. Where?
Lennox. Here, my good lord. What is ’t that moves your Highness?
Macbeth. Which of you have done this?
Lords. What, my good lord?
Macbeth. Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake
Thy gory locks at me.
Ross. Gentlemen, rise, his Highness is not well.
Lady Macbeth. Sit, worthy friends. My lord is often thus,
And hath been from his youth. Pray you, keep seat.
The fit is momentary; upon a thought^18
He will again be well. If much you note him,
You shall offend him and extend his passion.^19
Feed, and regard him not.—Are you a man?
Macbeth. Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that
Which might appall the devil.
Lady Macbeth. O proper stuff!
This is the very painting of your fear.
This is the air-drawn dagger which, you said,
Led you to Duncan. O, these flaws^20 and starts,
Impostors to true fear, would well become
A woman’s story at a winter’s fire,
Authorized^21 by her grandam. Shame itself!
Why do you make such faces? When all’s done,
You look but on a stool.
Macbeth. Prithee, see there!
Behold! Look! Lo! How say you?
Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too.
If charnel houses^22 and our graves must send
Those that we bury back, our monuments
Shall be the maws of kites.^23 [Exit Ghost.]
Lady Macbeth. What, quite unmanned in folly?
Macbeth. If I stand here, I saw him.40- our... roofed the most
honorable men in the country
under one roof. - Who... mischance whom I
hope I may reproach for being
absent due to discourtesy
rather than pity because he
has had an accident.
455055- upon a thought in a moment.
- passion suffering.
60
65 20. flaws gusts of wind; outbursts
of emotion.- Authorized vouched for.
70- charnel houses vaults
containing human bones dug
up in making new graves. - our... kites Because the dead
will be devoured by birds of
prey, our tombs will be the
bellies of those birds.
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Humanities: Ghosts in Literature Review
Macbeth’s lines of dialogue in Scene iv, lines
38–75. Make sure students understand that
Macbeth is reacting in a hysterical manner
because he sees Banquo’s ghost. Shakespeare
wrote about ghosts at a time when most people
had a strong belief in the supernatural: they
believed that restless spirits could return to Earth.
Queen Elizabeth I herself had a great interest
in the occult, and even had her own personaladvisor on astrological and scientific matters,
Dr. John Dee. Since Shakespeare’s works were
written primarily for the Queen, and had to
be approved by her Office of the Revels, many
believe he included ghosts (seen or unseen) in
plays, such as The Tragedy of Macbeth, to please
her. Discuss how the ghost affects Macbeth,
then have students research another author who
uses ghosts, and compare that author’s use with
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