Key Quotes

Question 1

Fair is foul and foul is fair

Answer 1

Witches
It highlights the hypocrisy that people adopt to hide their true intentions
Macbeths first word connects him with the witches ‘ foul and fair’

Question 2

Murder …shakes my single state of man

Answer 2

Macbeth
Murderous
Greed/desire

Question 3

There’s no art/ to find the minds construction on the face

Answer 3

Duncan - act 1 scene 4
You cannot see through to what a man is thinking just be looking at his face
Foreshadows his death?

Question 4

Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?

Answer 4

Macbeth
MB doesn’t think title thane of Cawdor belongs to him
Robes symbolise title and position

Question 5

Stars hide your fires / let not see my black and deep desires

Answer 5

Macbeth - act 1 scene 4
Stats represent what is good and noble
Macbeth wants to hide his desires for the throne to remain in darkness
Calling his desires black and deep is a metaphor as the thoughts are not literally dark but evil

Question 6

Look th’innocent flower but be the serpent under’t

Answer 6

Lady Macbeth
Deception/ manipulation
Lady MB advising Macbeth on how to look before killing Duncan

Question 7

This my hand will rather / the multitudinous seas incarnadine / making the green one red

Answer 7

Macbeth
There’s is not enough water to wash his stained hands
Guilty , insane

Question 8

I shame to wear a heart to white

Answer 8

Lady Macbeth
Lady MB ridicules MB for acting weak and naive
Attacking his masculinity, manipulative

Question 9

Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope/ the lords anointed temple

Answer 9

Macduff
Macbeth has murdered Duncan
Duncan’s body described as anointed temple

Question 10

The nearer in blood the nearer the bloody

Answer 10

Donaldbain
Donaldbain is saying to Malcolm they are not safe
Implies the ones closest to you are the ones most likely to betray you

Question 11

The very painting of your fear

Answer 11

Lady Macbeth
Telling Macbeth he’s just imagining seeing the floating daggers
Guilt

Question 12

Blood will have blood

Answer 12

Macbeth
Act 3
He knows he will suffer for his murders
Vicious cycle of bloodshed and violence from Macbeths actions
Greedy/ desire for power

Question 13

The very firstlings of your heart shall be the very firstlings of my hand

Answer 13

Macbeth
Scene 4
He is acting on impulse
Paranoid / greedy

Question 14

Be this the whetstone of your sword , let fried convert to anger

Answer 14

Malcolm
Act 4
Advocates fir revenge - promoting masculine ideologies that violence is a means to an ends

Question 15

What’s done cannot be undone

Answer 15

Lady Macbeth
Act 5
Telling Macbeth to stop feeling guilty for murdering Duncan
Guilt

Question 16

More needs the divine than the physician

Answer 16

Doctor
Believing that LM illness is spiritual rather than physical
Calling on the guidance of god
Created bad relationship with god - scared of going to hell
Sleepwalking is a manifestation of her guilt from the murders

Question 17

Life’s a walking shadow signifying nothing

Answer 17

Macbeth
Act 5
MB existence means nothing
Guilt / regret

Question 18

This dead butcher and his fiend-like queen

Answer 18

Malcolm
Act 5
Demonstrating LM and MB evil and immorality
Accurate for LM as she initially compelled MB to kill Duncan
MB unfair as he siding kill everyone