Literature - Macbeth Quotes

Question 1

What does Duncan repeatedly call Mcb?

Answer 1

‘Noble Macbeth’

Question 2

What does Ross initially presented Macbeth as?

Answer 2

‘Bellona’s Bridegroom’ [A1]

Question 3

How does Mcb speak throughout the play and what is the one occasion that he breaks this?

Answer 3

He speaks is Verse

And only breaks this when talking to the Murderers

Question 4

LdyMcb underestimates Mcb and calls him

Answer 4

’ too full of the milk of human kindness’ [A1]

Question 5

Macbeth’s fatal flaw

Answer 5

‘Vaulting ambition’ [A1]

Question 6

LdyMcb undermining Mcb’s Masculinity

Answer 6

‘so much more the man’ [A1]

Question 7

Audience feel sympathy for Macbeth when he says

Answer 7

‘tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow’ [A5]

Question 8

Dramatic entrance of the witches

Answer 8

‘Thunder and lightening’ in stage directions

Question 9

Witches presented as Supernatural through inhuman forsight

Answer 9

‘when the battle’s lost and won’ [A1]

Question 10

The witches inversion of traditional values

Answer 10

‘fair is foul and foul is fail’ [A1]

Also repeated throughout the play

Question 11

Macbeth shows guilt over killing Banquo

Answer 11

‘gory locks’ [A3]

Question 12

Macbeth’s own realisation of his inevitable demise

Answer 12

‘blood will have blood’ [A3]

Question 13

Witches give Macbeth false courage

Answer 13

’ Hail Macbeth!’ [A1]
‘ None of woman born shall harm Macbeth’ [A4]
- Many other examples throughout the play

Question 14

Macbeth surrenders to the witches powers

Answer 14

“Call ‘em, [evil spirits] let me see ‘em” [A4]

Question 15

What would the audience honestly belives in that Shakespeare plays upon

Answer 15

The existence of evil witches

Question 16

How is Duncan presented as a ‘Good’ King

Answer 16

Macbeth describes his ‘silver skin’ and ‘golden blood’, [A2] showing Duncan’s inner nobility

Often his costume is white robes showing purity

Question 17

How is Duncan connected to God

Answer 17

‘Shine on all deservers’ - Duncan [A1]

Question 18

How are the Macbeths presented at the end of the play

Answer 18

‘Butcher and fiendlike queen’

Question 19

How is Malcolm set up to oppose Macbeth

Answer 19

‘God above’ therefore religious [A4]

He ‘Scarcely have coveted’ the deadly sins

Question 20

What form do the Witches speak in?

Answer 20

Trochaic Tetrameter

Question 21

How are the witches presented as threatening

Answer 21

Striking costumes
Unusual entrances / exits
Trochaic Tetrameter is enchanting and offputiting

Question 22

How does LdyMcb almost take over the witches role

Answer 22

‘pour my spirits in thine ear’ [A1]

Question 23

Macbeth defends his own masculinity

Answer 23

‘I dare do all that may become a man’ [A1]

Question 24

Who is celebrated as a true man at the end of the play

Answer 24

Siward’s Son

‘Like a man he died’ [A5]

Question 25

How does LdyMcb reject her femininity

Answer 25

‘unsex me here’ [A1]

Question 26

How does Shakespeare show that female words corrupt men

Answer 26

‘pour mine spirits in thine ear’ [A1] LdyMcb

Question 27

How is Banquo presented as the opposite of Mcb

Answer 27

‘forbid me to interpret … you’ Banquo is not seduced my the witches profecies

Question 28

How is MacDuff presented as opposite to Mcb

Answer 28

‘to pray the holy king’

MacDuff is presented as religious