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| Question | Answer |
| 'O valiant cousin, worthy gentlemen' | Duncan is impressed by Macbeth's work on the battlefield |
| 'Two truths are told, as happy prologues to the swelling acts of this imperial theme. - I thank you gentlemen' | Macbeth anticipates a mighty drama on the theme of kingship; two of the witches' prophecies have come true so he hopes the the last one happens also |
| 'If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me without my stir' | Macbeth thinks that if the witches know he will become king,he may as well sit back and wait for it to happen without making any effort |
| 'Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires' | Macbeth doesn't want anyone to find out about his plan to become King by killing Duncan and his sons |
| Come, you spirits, that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty' | Lady Macbeth wants the evil spirits to encourage her to kill Duncan so she can become Queen |
| 'I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself and falls on th'other | Macbeth feels as though there is no reason to kill Duncan, other than his ambition to become King. |
| 'But screw your courage to the sticking place, and we'll not fail' | Lady Macbeth is looking for her husband's commitment to what they are going to do so that the plan does not fail |
| 'False face must hide what the false heart doth know' | Macbeth must not let the others in the castle know about what he is going to do. And so he has to be careful with his actions |
| 'Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more: Macbeth shall sleep no more' | Macbeth feels as though his actions have scarred him and his wife so badly that they will never sleep again |
| 'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?' | Even though the blood is washed off, he will never be free of his remorse |
| 'A little water clears us of this deed' | Contrast to the magnitude of Macbeth's views on how difficult it will be to get over this. Begins to show a breakdown in the relationship. |
| 'I am in blood stepp'd so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er' | The king feels as though he and his wife have already killed so many people, they may as well just keep going |
| 'The very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand' | Before, Macbeth used to debate his thoughts but now he decides he will act upon any of his thoughts as soon as he thinks of them |
| 'Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One, two' | Lady Macbeth is imagining blood on her hands, which highlights her guilty conscience |
| 'The mind I sway by and the heart I bear shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear' | Macbeth is no longer afraid of anything due to the unnatural properties of the apparation's prophecies |
| 'Out, out, brief candle, Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing' | Macbeth believes that life is futile after hearing about the death of his wife. His attitude has changed to one of great sorrow after hearing this news. |
| 'of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen' | After their deaths, the Thanes, now Earls, describe Macbeth and his wife as evil, suggesting they have left a negative legacy |
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