Appearance vs Reality

Question 1

Through Lady Macbeth, the audience is shown that

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equivocation can lead to guilt and self ruin

Question 2

Shakespeare uses extensive imagery of darkness and night to

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symbolise the obscuration of ones desires

Question 3

The witches reality is questioned throughout the play as a means

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of suggesting Macbeth only has himself to blame

Question 4

Noughts had, all’s spent, where our desire is

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got without content

Question 5

all the perfume of Arabia will not

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sweeten this little hand

Question 6

The thane of Fife had a

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wife: where is she now

Question 7

Will these hands

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ne’er be clean

Question 8

Theres husbandry in heaven;

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Their candles are all out

Question 9

Come, seeling night, scarf

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up the tender eye of the pitiful

Question 10

Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;

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While nights black agents to their preys do rouse

Question 11

What seem’d corporal melted

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As breath into the wind

Question 12

‘Came they not by you?’

Answer 12

‘No, indeed, my lord’