act 1 - scene 1-3

Question 1

battle juxtaposition

Answer 1

when the battles lost and won

Question 2

whitches fair and stuff
- contradiction
- juxtaposition
- alliteration
- rhyming couplets

Answer 2

fair is foul and foul is fair, hover though the fog and filthy air

Question 3

someone being cut up
- inhumane
- shows ease

Answer 3

till he unseamed him from nave to th’chaps

Question 4

macbeth = brave
- worthy of praise
- positive description
- patriotic actions

Answer 4

for brave macbeth - well he deserves that name

Question 5

what macbeth hath won
- juxtaposition - honour and dishouner
- thought of highly

Answer 5

what he hath lost noble macbeth hath won

Question 6

• metaphor
• fortelling future

Answer 6

tell me you speak not. if you can look into the seeds of time

Question 7

• less in power
• more in moral
• juxtaposition

Answer 7

lesser than macbeth and greater

Question 8

• metaphor of witches
• witches dont do things directly

Answer 8

the instruments of darkness tells us truths

Question 9

• admits thoughts
• ambition

Answer 9

my thoughts, whose murder yet is but fantastical

Question 10

• foreshadows macbeths decline
• stop nature cycle = torcher
• like Macbeth - drain moral,mental,physical

Answer 10

ill drain him dry as hay : sleep shall neither night or day

Question 11

macbeth echoing witches

Answer 11

so foul and fair a day i have not seen