Kingship

Question 1

Finish the quote:
Here lay Duncan

Answer 1

his silver skin laced with his golden blood, and his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature for ruin’s wasteful entrance.
(Macbeth)

Question 2

Finish the quote:
So well thy words

Answer 2

become thee as thy wounds; / They smack of honour both. Go get him surgeons.
(Duncan caring for his subjects)

Question 3

Finish the quote:
There’s no art

Answer 3

To find the mind’s construction in the face. / He was a gentleman on whom I built / An absolute trust.
(Duncan to Macbeth about the old Thane of Cawdor, shows a king should be humble)

Question 4

Finish the quote:
Besides, this Duncan / Hath borne

Answer 4

his faculties so meek, hath been / So clear in his great office, that his virtues
Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against / The deep damnation of his taking-off;
(Macbeth recognising Duncan is a good leader and not wanting to kill him)