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Banquo’s Ghost

1. MAKE TEN CONNECTIONS TO EXCERPT USING COMMENT BOXES. LABEL THE COMMENT BOX “CONNECTIONS.”

2. ASK FIVE QUESTIONS OF THE EXCERPT. Do this by typing the question in green next to the text.

3. HIGHLIGHT TEN VOCABULARY WORDS YOU DON’T KNOW IN YELLOW.

4. INFER THE MEANING OF THE VOCABULARY WORDS. Type your inference in red at the end of the line the word is found in.

5. DEFINE THE VOCABULARY WORDS. Type the definition in blue at the end of the line after the inference.

6. HIGHLIGHT THREE QUOTES THAT REVEAL CHARACTERIZATION IN TURQOISE.

7. Type what is revealed about the character in purple at the end of the line.

Act III Scene IV

MACBETH	Sweet remembrancer! Now, good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both!
LENNOX	May't please your highness sit.
	[The GHOST OF BANQUO enters, and sits in MACBETH's place]
MACBETH	Here had we now our country's honour roof'd, Were the graced person of our Banquo present; Who may I rather challenge for unkindness Than pity for mischance!
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 He will again be well: if much you note him, You shall offend him and extend his passion: Feed, and regard him not. Are you a man?
MACBETH	Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that Which might appal 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 and starts, Impostors to true fear, would well become A woman's story at a winter's fire, Authorized 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 and our graves must send Those that we bury back, our monuments Shall be the maws of kites.
	[GHOST OF BANQUO vanishes]
LADY MACBETH	What, quite unmann'd in folly?
MACBETH	If I stand here, I saw him.
LADY MACBETH	Fie, for shame!
MACBETH	Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time, Ere human statute purged the gentle weal; Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear: the times have been, That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools: this is more strange Than such a murder is.
LADY MACBETH	My worthy lord, Your noble friends do lack you.
MACBETH	I do forget. Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends, I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing To those that know me. Come, love and health to all; Then I'll sit down. Give me some wine; fill full. I drink to the general joy o' the whole table, And to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss; Would he were here! to all, and him, we thirst, And all to all.
Lords	Our duties, and the pledge.
	[Re-enter GHOST OF BANQUO]
MACBETH	Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with!
LADY MACBETH	Think of this, good peers, But as a thing of custom: 'tis no other; Only it spoils the pleasure of the time.
MACBETH	What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble: or be alive again, And dare me to the desert with thy sword; If trembling I inhabit then, protest me The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow! Unreal mockery, hence!
	[GHOST OF BANQUO vanishes]
	Why, so: being gone, I am a man again. Pray you, sit still.
LADY MACBETH	You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting, With most admired disorder.
MACBETH	Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine is blanched with fear.
ROSS	What sights, my lord?
LADY MACBETH	I pray you, speak not; he grows worse and worse; Question enrages him. At once, good night: Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.
LENNOX	Good night; and better health Attend his majesty!
LADY MACBETH	A kind good night to all!
	[Exeunt all but MACBETH and LADY MACBETH]
MACBETH	It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood: Stones have been known to move and trees to speak; Augurs and understood relations have By magot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth The secret'st man of blood. What is the night?
LADY MACBETH	Almost at odds with morning, which is which.
MACBETH	How say'st thou, that Macduff denies his person At our great bidding?
LADY MACBETH	Did you send to him, sir?
MACBETH	I hear it by the way; but I will send: There's not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant fee'd. I will to-morrow, And betimes I will, to the weird sisters: More shall they speak; for now I am bent to know, By the worst means, the worst. For mine own good, All causes shall give way: I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er: Strange things I have in head, that will to hand; Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd.
LADY MACBETH	You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
MACBETH	Come, we'll to sleep. My strange and self-abuse Is the initiate fear that wants hard use: We are yet but young in deed.
	[Exeunt]