Act 1

Question 1

What quote from A1S1 is said by the First Witch to show what type of weather they’re associated with?

Answer 1

‘In thunder, lighting, or in rain’

Question 2

What quote said by the witches in A1S1 is used to show how thins are reversed and not as they should.

Answer 2

‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’

Question 3

What two things does Duncan say of Macbeth to show the main character at the start of the play in A1S2?

Answer 3

‘O valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman!’

Question 4

What does Macbeth say in A1S3 to show his early connections to the witches?

Answer 4

‘foul and fair a day’

Question 5

What 2 things does Banquo say to describe the witches?

Answer 5

‘So withered and wild in their attire’ ‘choppy finger laying upon her skinny lips’

Question 6

What does Banquo say describing about how Macbeth has reacted to the prophecies given?

Answer 6

‘Seems rapt withal’

Question 7

What does Macbeth say to the witches as if he was commanding them in A1S3?

Answer 7

‘Stay you imperfect speakers,’

Question 8

What does Banquo relate the witches in A1S3 which brings in the idea of religion?

Answer 8

‘What can the devil speak true’

Question 9

What does Macbeth say in his soliloquy to refer to how he has thought of murder?

Answer 9

‘Make my seated heart knock at my ribs’

Question 10

What does Macbeth say in his aside in A1S3 to suggest that he isn’t meant to be king by murder?

Answer 10

‘Against the use of nature’

Question 11

What more does Duncan say in A1S4 to show his thoughts around Macbeth?

Answer 11

‘O worthiest cousin’

Question 12

What does Banquo say to Duncan in A1S4 which may reference how his children etc will be kings?

Answer 12

‘the harvest is your own’

Question 13

What does Macbeth say in his [aside] at the end of A1S4 which will show him beginning to align with darkness and the witches - especially with the rhyme?

Answer 13

‘Stars hide your fires. Let light not see me black and deep desires’

Question 14

What does Lady Macbeth say that Macbeth is in A1S5?

Answer 14

‘too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness’

Question 15

What quote from the beginning of A1S5 shows Lady Macbeth as quite witch-like and controlling?

Answer 15

‘pour my spirits into thine ear and chastise with the valour of my tongue’

Question 16

What does Lady Macbeth say that alludes to how she wants to lose her femininity?

Answer 16

‘unsex me here’

Question 17

What does Lady Macbeth say in A1S5 to show how she is referencing Satan?

Answer 17

‘dunnest smoke of hell’

Question 18

What does Lady Macbeth say in A1S5 to show how she too wants to be hidden by darkness?

Answer 18

‘Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark’

Question 19

What does Lady Macbeth say which brings the idea of illusion vs reality and the Garden of Eden?

Answer 19

‘But be the serpent under’t’

Question 20

What is Macbeth saying at beginning of A1S7 where he looks at how murder could lead to his?

Answer 20

‘Bloody instructions, which being taught in return To plague th’ inventor

Question 21

What does Macbeth say in A1S7 to show how he is having higher ambitions?

Answer 21

‘Vaulting ambition, which o’er leaps itself’

Question 22

What does Macbeth say in his sililoquy to show why he probably shouldn’t murder Duncan?

Answer 22

‘double trust’

Question 23

What quote from A1S7 shows how Macbeth has decided to kill Duncan after listing all the reasons he wouldn’t and also looks at app vs reality?

Answer 23

‘False face must hide what the false heart doth know’

Question 24

What does Lady Macbeth say in A1S7 where she questions Macbeth’s manhood for the first time?

Answer 24

‘Be so much more of a man’