Act 1

Question 1

Summary of Act 1 Scene 1?

Answer 1

Set in Scotland. The witches plan to meet with Macbeth

Question 2

What is the paradoxical quote from the witches and connotations?

Answer 2

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair”
Things will not appear as they seem
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Question 3

Summary of Act 1 Scene 2?

Answer 3

An army general gives a report on the battle

Question 4

What does Macbeth do to MacDonald (quote)?

Answer 4

“Unseamed him from the nave to the chaps, and fixed his head upon our battlements”

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Question 5

Summary of Act 1 Scene 3?

Answer 5

Macbeth and Banquo meet the witches

Question 6

What is the first prophecy of the witches?

Answer 6

“Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor”

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Question 7

What is the witches’ second prophecy?

Answer 7

“All hail Macbeth! though shall be king hereafter”

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Question 8

What is the witches third prophecy?

Answer 8

“Though shall get kings, though thou be none”

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Question 9

Who tells Macbeth that he is Thane of Cawdor?

Answer 9

Ross

Question 10

What does Macbeth say when Ross tells him he’s Thane of Cawdor?

Answer 10

“Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?”

Question 11

What does Macbeth say that hints towards him killing Duncan, what does it mean?

Answer 11

“My thought, whose murder is yet but fantastical”
I’m thinking of murder but currently it’s just a fantasy
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Question 12

Summary of Act 1 Scene 4?

Answer 12

Macbeth and Banquo arrive at Duncan’s palace and are thanked for fighting. Duncan says that Malcolm will be the next king, Macbeth isn’t happy. Duncan is going to stay at Macbeth’s place

Question 13

Summary of Act 1 Scene 5?

Answer 13

Macbeth sends a letter to LM explaining the witches and everything.

Question 14

What does LM say when she thinks Macbeth is too kind to become king?

Answer 14

“too full o’ the milk of human kindness”

Question 15

What does LM say on the appearance of Duncan?

Answer 15

“The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements”

Ravens are signs of bad omens, symbol of death

Question 16

What quote shows that LM is willingly offering herself to spirits?

Answer 16

“Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thought”
She is calling the spirits
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Question 17

What quote shows that LM wants to change her gender?

Answer 17

“Unsex me here”
The Jacobean audience saw woman as cunning and prone to temptation. They were more likely to commit murder. Woman were saw as weak, LM didn’t want to be weak
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Question 18

What does LM say to Macbeth (appearance vs reality)?

Answer 18

“look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t”
Link to the Bible and the story of Adam and Eve
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Question 19

Summary of Act 1 Scene 6?

Answer 19

The royal arrive at Macbeth’s castle

Question 20

What are the two reasons that Macbeth doesn’t want to kill Duncan?

Answer 20

“As I am his kinsman and his subject”

“Who should against his murderer shut the door, not bear the knife myself”

Question 21

What quote shows that Macbeth shouldn’t kill Duncan?

Answer 21

“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent”

Question 22

What is the quote about vaulting ambition?

Answer 22

“Vaulting ambition, which over leaps itself and falls on the other”

Question 23

What does Macbeth tell LM that they will not kill the king?

Answer 23

“We will proceed no further in this business”

Question 24

What does LM say about dashing brains?

Answer 24

“I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from it’s boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this. ‘’

Question 25

Quote for lady macbeth emasculating macbeth?

Answer 25

“When you durst do it, then you were a man”