Lady Macbeth

Question 1

Act 1 scene 5 - gotten the letter

3

Answer 1

‘my dearest partner in greatness’
‘It is too full o’the’ milk of human kindness’
‘that I may pour my spirits in thine ear’

Question 2

act 1 scene 5 soliloquy - after letter

6

Answer 2

‘unsex me here’
‘come you spirits’
‘fill me from the crown to the toe of direst cruelty’
‘make thick my blood’
‘take my milk for gall’
‘the raven himself croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan’

Question 3

appearance vs reality quote

Answer 3

‘look like th’innocent flower but be the serpent under’t’

Question 4

Her manipulation towards Macbeth

2

Answer 4

‘coward’

‘when you durst do it then you were a man’

Question 5

graphic maternal imagery

Answer 5

‘pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gum and dashed the brains out’

Question 6

excuse for not wanting to to the actual act of regicide

Answer 6

‘had he not resembled my father…I had done it’

Question 7

taking control after regicide had been committed

2

Answer 7

‘Give me the daggers’

‘a little water clears us of this deed’

Question 8

act 3 scene 2 - Lady Macbeth becoming unease with guilt

soliloquy

Answer 8

‘safer…to destroy than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy’

Question 9

act 5 scene 1 - sleepwalking scene

4

Answer 9

‘Out damned spot! Out I say! One, Two’
‘who would have thought the old man to have so much blood’
‘all perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand’
‘to bed to bed; theres knocking at the gate. Come come come come….what’s done cannot be undone’

Question 10

final description in Malcolm’s last speech

2

Answer 10

‘fiend-like queen’

‘took off her life’