act 1 - macbeth notes

Question 1

how many scenes in this act

Answer 1

7 scenes

Question 2

what is the purpose of scene 1 (with witches)

Answer 2

set a tone, thunder, lightning, witches, dark, eerie tone

Question 3

“fair is foul, and foul is fair”
speaker?
significance?

Answer 3

witches

theme of reversals

Question 4

who are the demon helpers

Answer 4

graymalkin, paddock

Question 5

what does hurly burly mean

Answer 5

turmoil

Question 6

what are the witches doing in scene 1

Answer 6

probably scavenging

Question 7

who is an inexperienced soldier

Answer 7

malcolm

Question 8

who is to be the prince of Cumberland

Answer 8

Malcolm

Question 9

macbeth ____ ____ the traitor, Macdonwald

Answer 9

brutally killed

Question 10

things that set macbeth up as a hero

Answer 10

commitatus, killed rebels, leads battles, valor’s minion (bravest of all)

Question 11

who is the thane of fife

Answer 11

macduff

Question 12

who is described as the husband of bellona

Answer 12

macbeth

compliment’s macbeth’s braveness

Question 13

what is macbeth’s current title

Answer 13

thane of glamis

Question 14

what title will macbeth soon receive t

Answer 14

thane of cawdor

Question 15

“go prounounce his present death”

Answer 15

his- thane of cawdor

speaker- duncan

Question 16

what does the witch want from the sailor’s wife

Answer 16

chestnuts

Question 17

what does the witch say when she doesn’t get the chestnuts

Answer 17

she will take revenge against woman’s husband by throwing his ship in the storm

Question 18

“so found and fair a day I have not seen”

Answer 18

macbeth

Question 19

3 prophesies of macbeth

Answer 19

Thane of Glamis
thane of cawdor
king

Question 20

what imagery does banquo use to describe macbeth’s prohesies

Answer 20

growth

Question 21

3 prophesies of banquo

Answer 21

less than macbeth but greater
not so happy, yet much happier
thou shalt get kings, but not be one

Question 22

“why do you dress me in borrowed robes”

Answer 22

macbeth- clothing imagery

Question 23

instruments of darkness are

Answer 23

witches

Question 24

macbeth’s voice of reason is who

Answer 24

banquo

Question 25

because banquo is suspicious of macbeth , he is the ____ to macbeth

Answer 25

foil

Question 26

Macbeth ______ the witches after becoming thane of cawdor

Answer 26

believes

Question 27

what is making macbeth nervous

Answer 27

the thought of killing king | it is against his nature, he is a loyal thane

Question 28

nothing is but what is not

Answer 28

macbeth | reversal

Question 29

"nothing in his life became him like the leaving it" what is this quote describing

Answer 29

thane of cawdor's death and how he easily gave his life

Question 30

duncan's flaw

Answer 30

naive

Question 31

who is duncan's cousin

Answer 31

macbeth

Question 32

duncan is to visit macbeth's castle ____

Answer 32

iverness

Question 33

"are to your throne and your state children and servants"

Answer 33

macbeth

Question 34

"This is a step on which i must fall down. | who is the stetp

Answer 34

macbeth | malcom becoming king is the step

Question 35

3 things that influence macbeth

Answer 35

witches lady macbeth his ambition

Question 36

"Yet do I fear thy nature. Iti s too full o' the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way" speaker? significance?

Answer 36

lady macbeth | she fears that macbeth is too good or nice to seize the throne

Question 37

golden round =

Answer 37

crown

Question 38

impedes =

Answer 38

stops

Question 39

symbol of death + bird imagery

Answer 39

raven

Question 40

"unsex me here, and fill me, forom the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty"

Answer 40

lady macbeth wants to get rid of womanly feelings

Question 41

lady macbeth calls on the

Answer 41

thick night

Question 42

"as a book wehere men may read strange matters"

Answer 42

lady macbeth to macbeth | A v.s. R

Question 43

"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't"

Answer 43

lady macbeth to macbeth | A v.s. R

Question 44

how does lady macbeth have a fake appearance to duncan

Answer 44

pretends to be a great hostess while plotting his murder

Question 45

a martlet is a _____ bird

Answer 45

peaceful

Question 46

3 reasons to not kill Dncan

Answer 46

Judgement- here and in heaven double(triple)trust- kinsmen, subject, host he is a great king

Question 47

"but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself"

Answer 47

macbeth