Understanding fiction

Let's practise

Act 3 Scene 2

Narrator 4: Now we move to the King's great chamber where cooks, guests and wife did labour. A feast for the Scots Lords and their kin but Macbeth's thoughts were set in sin since done was Banquo in the night and the vision was his sight.

[Enter Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and Lords assembled. Enter table and chairs.]

Lady Macbeth: Sit good Lords and welcome.

Ross: Aye my Lady – thank you.

Lennox: Your house Lord is as always welcoming.

McDuff: And your table plentiful.

Macbeth: A toast! A ghost! Banquo! Why do you stand? Blood stained host? Foul spirit! Get ye gone!

Lady Macbeth: Patience gentiles, my Lord is often thus – forgive? Come now and leave I trust.

William Shakespeare: from Macbeth (1606)

Underline the phrase that tells us that Macbeth has had a part in Banquo' death.
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  • Read the question. Read it again. What is it asking?
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The question is asking you to underline the phrase that tells us Macbeth had something to do with Banquo's death.

  • Read the extract and find where it talks about Macbeth.
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It's narrator 4 that talks about Macbeth.

  • What does narrator 4 say about Macbeth?
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The narrator is saying that his 'thoughts were set in sin'. That suggests Macbeth might have been thinking of doing something bad. The phrase 'since done was Banquo' tells us that Banquo was killed.

  • So what words will you underline?
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I will underline 'thoughts were set in sin'.

  • Check your answer.