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Question 1

character dialogue:

Answer 1

• noble characters speak in IAMBIC PENTAMATER (when you have 5 stressed syllables and 5 unstressed in a line).
• witches speak in trochaic pentameter (stressed followed by unstressed).

Question 2

the great chain of being

Answer 2

a hierarchical structure of all matter and life, thought by medieval christianity to have been decreed by god.

• provided social stability.
• warned dire consequences to those who went against it.

Question 3

divine right of kings

Answer 3

political doctrine that the king was chosen by god himself and so, any act against the king was sacrilegious/a blasphemous act against god himself that resulted in eternal damnation.

Question 4

fate and free will

Answer 4

fate = inevitable to happen.
destiny = coincides with free will.

what happens in life is fate, how it happens was believed to be impacted by free will.

Question 5

wheel of fortune

Answer 5

the belief that people could rise to the top of their wheel and live happily but would only stay there for a while before coming back down to the bottom.

Question 6

king james I & supernatural

Answer 6

• wrote daemonologie in 1596
• believed they killed his mother, queen of scots
• he went to try see anne of denmark and nearly died at sea (1589); blamed witches

Question 7

equivocation

Answer 7

jesuits involved in the gunpowder plot spoke in equivocal language during their trials to avoid sins by lying

Question 8

robert catesby (one of king james I’s thought to be most loyal men)

Answer 8

was involved in the gunpowder plot; scholars speculate that the character of macbeth is partly modelled on him