ACT I scenes I-III

In act 1 Scene 3 there is a good reference to sleep on page 32 "Sleep shall neither night nor day Hang upon his pent-house lid." This is basically where the witches are kind of bragging to one another on what they did to humans, and one which said that she would put a curse on some woman's husband, because the woman wouldn't give her any chestnuts. Then there is also symbolism of clothes, and how things are not as they seem, and this holds true to Duncan, since we can see he is a bad judge of character and trusted MacDonwald. "Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?" (Page 40) This is just where Macbeth is questioning why he is the Thane of Cawdor, why MAcDonwald is still alive. There is also another piece of symbolism to clothes by Banquo on page 42 "New honours come upon him, like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould but with the aid of use." This is basically Banquo saying that he doesn't think that Macbeth is deserving of his new position as the Thane of Cawdor. There is also another reference to injury on page 28, "Till he unseamed him from the nave to the chops, and fixed his head upon our battlements." This is Macbeth saying how he cut off Macdonwald's head and mounted it on a wall. The basic symbolism that was seen the most in these scenes were: clothes, injury/death, and a reference to sleep. I think that clothing will continue to be one of the most common, and I say this because as we saw from the play, Macbeth and his lady deceive king Duncan, and deceit has to be clothed. Also, we can take from the play that injury and death will also be key images.