How Shakespeare presents loyalty

Question 1

Para 1: Macbeth’s initial loyalty to Duncan how loyalty is seen as an essential quality of a subject

Answer 1

“All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!”

Question 2

Para 1: Macbeth’s initial loyalty to Duncan how loyalty is seen as an essential quality of a subject

Answer 2

“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition.”

Question 3

Para 1: Macbeth’s initial loyalty to Duncan how loyalty is seen as an essential quality of a subject

Answer 3

“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”

Question 4

Para 2: How Macbeth betrays this loyalty due to ambition and temptation

Answer 4

“I am in blood stepped in so far.”

Question 5

Para 2: How Macbeth betrays this loyalty due to ambition and temptation

Answer 5

‘Let your highness command upon me, to which my duties are with a most indissoluble tie forever knit.”

Question 6

Para 3: How the betrayal of loyalty ends with Macbeth alone, himself betrayed by the witches

Answer 6

“I will not yield, to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet, and to be baited with the Rabble’s curse.”

Question 7

Para 3: How the betrayal of loyalty ends with Macbeth alone, himself betrayed by the witches

Answer 7

‘I pull in resolution and begin/To doubt th’ equivocation of the fiend/ That lies like truth.’