Act+I

__Act I Discussion Questions __

====1. What is the //__mood__// of the opening scene in //Macbeth//? Can you make any predictions based on this first scene? Reference both the text and the film clip. What other stories, poems, books, situations does it remind you of? ====

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2. What do the lines “Fair is foul and foul is fair” mean? Provide a modern example of this idea from the news, a movie, etc.

3. What does Banquo mean when he says,

“And oftentimes to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkeness tell us truth, Win us with honest trifles to betray’s In deepest consequence.—“ (1.3. 143 – 146).