Characters

Question 1

Macbeth’s Paranoia:

Answer 1

A3 S2 ‘We have scotch’d the snake, not kill’d it’
A3 S2 ‘O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!’
A3 S4 ‘It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood’
A3 S4 ‘now i am cabin’d, cribb’d, confined, bound in to saucy doubts and fears.’

Question 2

Macbeth’s Bravery/Nobleness as a Warrior:

Answer 2

A1 S2 ‘Brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name’
A1 S2 ‘As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion’
A5 S6 ‘They have tied me to a stake; i cannot fly, But, bear-like, i must fight the course.’
A5 S6 ‘Such a one am i to fear, or none’

Question 3

Macbeth’s Conscience

Answer 3

A1 S3 ‘Why do i yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs, against the use of nature?’
A1 S7 ‘We but teach bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor’
A1 S7 ‘Prithee, peace: i dare do all that mat become a man’

Question 4

Macbeth’s Cruelty

Answer 4

A1 S4 ‘Safe in a ditch he bides, with twenty trenched gashes on his head’
A4S1 ‘give to the edge o’ the sword his wife, his babes’

Question 5

Macbeth’s Ambition

Answer 5

A1 S3 ‘Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more’
A1 S4 ‘Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires’
A1 S7 ‘only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other.’

Question 6

Lady Macbeth’s manipulation (of Macbeth)

Answer 6

A1 S7 ‘And live a coward in thine own esteem’
A1 S7 ‘What Beast was’t then, that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man’
A1 S7 ‘I ould, while it was smiling in my face: have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums, and dash’d the brains out, had i so sworn as you, have done to this.’

Question 7

Lady Macbeth’s belief that Macbeth is weak.

Answer 7

A1 S5 ‘yet do i fear thy nature, it is too full o’ the milk of human kindness’
A2 S2 ‘Infirm of purpose!’
A2 S2 ‘My hands are of your colour; but i shame to wear a heart so white.

Question 8

Lady Macbeth’s Ambition

Answer 8

A1 S5 ‘fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood, stop up access and passage to remorse.’
A1 S5 ‘Come to my woman’s breasts and take my milk for gall’
A1 S5 ‘Come, you spirits, that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here.

Question 9

Lady Macbeth’s Madness

Answer 9

A5 S1 ‘It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands’
A5 S1 ‘Out, damned spot! Out, i say! Hell is murky!’
A5 S1 ‘What, will these hands ne’er be clean’