2. Violence Quotes

Question 1

The captain, Act 1 scene 2 (‘he unseemed him…’)

Answer 1

‘he unseem’d him from the nave to th’chops, and fix’d his head upon our battlements.’

Question 2

Lady Macbeth, Act 1 scene 5 (‘come thick night…’)

Answer 2

‘Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, that my keen knife seen not the wound it makes’

Question 3

Macbeth, Act 1 scene 7 (‘that we but teach bloody instructions…’)

Answer 3

‘That we but teach bloody instructions, which being taught, return to plague th’inventor’

Question 4

Lady macbeth Act 1 Scene 7 (‘I would, while it was smiling on my face…’)

Answer 4

‘I would, while it was smiling in my face, have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had i so sworn as you have done this’

Question 5

Macbeth, act 2 scene 3 (‘the castle of macduff i will surprise’)

Answer 5

‘The castle of Macduff I will surprise; seize upon Fife (macduff); give to th’edge o’th’sword his wife, his babes, and all unfortunate sould that trace him in his line’

Question 6

Macbeth, act 5 scene 5 (‘i have supp’d full with horrors…’)

Answer 6

‘I have supp’d full with horrors; direness familiar to my thoughts cannot once start me.’