Read the rest of the play and be prepared to discuss it in detail in class. Please look at the following study questions as you read and try to imagine how the play would be staged. Try to identify repeated images and determine their significance.

• Why does Macbeth go to see the witches again?
• How can you tell he seriously believes in their power?
• What form does the second apparition take and what do you think this means? To what other events in the play might it connect?
• What is the significance of the 3rd apparition?
• What do the witches tell Macbeth that he doesn't want to hear?
• What does Lady Macduff say about the plight of a good woman?
• What is the signifigance of the conversation between Macduff and Malcolm? Do you think Shakespeare is saying anything in particular about kingship? If so, what?
• How is Edward (king of England) described? Why?
• What seems to have caused Lady Macbeth to go mad?
• How does Macbeth react to his wife's death?
• Macbeth's speach Act 5, Scene 5 lines 18-26 is one of the most famous soliloquies in Shakespeare. Read it over a few times and think about it. What is Macbeth saying and how does it apply to the play as a whole? What, then, do you think Shakespeare is saying?
• What do you think Shakespeare is saying about kingship; about right action vs. wrong action; about what the natural order of things is?