At their feast, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth enter the stage as king and ____. As Macbeth walks among the company, the first murderer appears at the doorway. Macbeth speaks to him for a moment, learning that ____ is dead and that ____ has escaped. The news of Fleance’s ____ angers Macbeth—if only Fleance had died, he muses, his throne would have been ____. Returning to his guests, Macbeth goes to sit at the head of the royal table but finds Banquo’s ____ sitting in his chair. Horror-struck, ____ speaks to the ghost, which is ____ to the rest of the company. Lady Macbeth makes excuses for her ____, saying that he occasionally has such ____ and that the guests should simply ignore his behavior. Then she speaks to Macbeth, questioning his ____ and urging him to snap out of his trance. The ghost ____, and Macbeth recovers, telling his company: “I have a strange infirmity which is nothing / To those that know me”. As he offers a toast to company, however, ____ ghost reappears and shocks Macbeth into further reckless outbursts. Continuing to make excuses for her husband, Lady Macbeth sends the alarmed guests out of the room as the ghost ____ again. Macbeth mutters that “blood will have ____ and tells Lady Macbeth that he has heard from a servant-spy that ____ intends to keep away from court, behaviour that verges on treason. He says that he will visit the ____ again tomorrow in the hopes of learning more about the ____ and about who may be ____ against him. He resolves to do whatever is necessary to keep his throne Lady Macbeth says that he needs sleep, and they retire to their ____.

Macbeth Act 3 Scene 4

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