Acts + Scenes

Question 1

When does Duncan decide to crown Macbeth Thane of Cawdor?

Answer 1

Act 1, Scene 2

Question 2

When does the King here news of Macbeth’s bravery?

Answer 2

Act 1, Scene 2

Question 3

When is Macbeth told the prophecies by the witches that he will become Thane of Cawdor, and then King?

Answer 3

Act 1, Scene 3

Question 4

When does Macbeth find out he is Thane of Cawdor?

Answer 4

Act 1, Scene 3

Question 5

When do ideas of regicide first pass through Macbeth’s mind?

Answer 5

Act 1, Scene 3 (after he’s received prophecies and finds out the one has become true)

Question 6

Where is there a textual echo from the witches in the Act 1, Scene 1?

Answer 6

Act 1, Scene 3 - Macbeth says ‘so foul and fair a day I have not seen’
Witches said earlier - ‘fair is foul, and foul is fair’

Question 7

Where is a lot of dramatic irony used?

Answer 7

Act 1, Scene 4 - Macbeth acts sycophantic to King, saying he will be loyal, but audience know that he is planning to commit regicide etc.

Question 8

When does Duncan praise Macbeth and appoint Malcom as Prince of Cumberland (worrying Macbeth)?

Answer 8

Act 1, Scene 4

Question 9

When is Lady Macbeth’s, ‘unsex me here’ soliloquy?

Answer 9

Act 1, Scene 5 - when she receives Macbeth’s letter and has ambitions for him to become King

Question 10

When does Lady Macbeth first tell Macbeth to hide his true feelings?

Answer 10

Act 1, Scene 5 - ‘look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t’

Question 11

When does Duncan arrive at Macbeth’s castle and mention the pleasant surroundings?

Answer 11

Act 1, Scene 6 - dramatic irony (‘this castle hath a pleasant setting‘), appearance vs. reality

Question 12

When is Lady Macbeth extremely sycophantic?

Answer 12

Act 1, Scene 6 - when she is welcoming Duncan to their castle - ‘all our service, in every point twice done and then done double‘

Question 13

When does Macbeth begin to talk himself out of the murder of Duncan?

Answer 13

Act 1, Scene 7

Question 14

When does Lady Macbeth talk Macbeth into murdering Duncan by saying that she would ‘have pluck‘d my nipple from his boneless gums and dash‘d the brains out‘?

Answer 14

Act 1, Scene 7

Question 15

When does Banquo mention that he had a dream about the witches?

Answer 15

Act 2, Scene 1 - Banquo tells truth - trustworthy - James I

- Macbeth lies (‘I think not of them‘) - dramatic irony —> juxtaposition between two

Question 16

When does Macbeth begin to hallucinate?

Answer 16

Act 2, Scene 1 - just before Duncan‘s murder (‘Is this a dagger which I see before me?‘)

Question 17

When does Macbeth murder King Duncan?

Answer 17

Act 2, Scene 2

Question 18

When is the porter scene?

Answer 18

Act 2, Scene 3 - after Duncan‘s murder (comic relief)

Question 19

When does Macduff find Duncan has been murdered?

Answer 19

Act 2, Scene 3 - LM + M have guilty reactions, + Duncan‘s sons talk of fleeing

Question 20

When do unnatural events occur after the event of Duncan‘s murder?

Answer 20

Act 2, Scene 4

Question 21

When does Macduff have suspicions of Macbeth?

Answer 21

Act 2, Scene 4