Macbeth 1

Question 1

Respected by others

Answer 1

• Sergeant says: “brave Macbeth”
• Praised by King Duncan
• Rewarded title of “Thane of Cawdor.”

Question 2

Courageous

Answer 2

• “brave Macbeth”

- “valiant cousin, worthy gentlemen.”

Question 3

Heroic

Answer 3

“Victory fell on us.”

Question 4

Loyal/Honourable

Answer 4

• “Noble Macbeth”

- Macbeth’s loyalty contrasts with the betrayal of the Thane of Cawdor (original).

Question 5

Macbeth’s Inner Struggle Bet. Good and Evil

Answer 5

• “Good sir, what do you start and seem to fear.”
• “Cannot be good, cannot be ill.” (prophecy)
• “If good…my seated heart knock against my ribs.”
• “Murder” in his thoughts.
• Act 1 Scene 3, Macbeth decided to leave it up to fate: “Chance may crown me.”

Question 6

Macbeth’s Inner Struggle Bet. Good and Evil [Lady Macbeth and Macbeth]

Answer 6

• “We will proceed no further.”
• “I am settled.”
• Moral conscience - “kinsman/subject/host.”

Question 7

Regretful

Answer 7

• After he kills Duncan: “Wake Duncan with thy knocking.”

- “I would than couldst.”

Question 8

Not in control [after the murder of King Duncan]

Answer 8

• “I could not say ‘amen’.”

- Imagines that he hears a voice that says “sleep no more.”

Question 9

Paralysed by guilty conscience after the murder

Answer 9

• “I’ll go no more.”
• “I am afraid to think what I have done.”
• He cannot say “amen” in spite of being in most need of “blessing.”
• “sorry sight” – bloody hands
• An “ocean” cannot wash away his dirty deed.

Question 10

[Due to ambition] Macbeth disguises his ambition even to his best friend

Answer 10

Disguises the truth with Banquo - “things forgotten.”

Question 11

Ambition [Tragic Flaw]

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Act 1 Scene 4

Answer 11

• “tell me more”
• “Speak, I charge.”
• Gives more incensed orders to the witches.
• “The greatest is behind.”

• “This is a step… or else.”
• obstacle: Malcolm is declared heir to the throne.

Question 12

Deceptive - hides the darker side

Answer 12

• “The eye wink at the hand.”
• “Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

Lies to most trusted friend Banquo:
- “I think not of them.”

Already, Macbeth is as he vowed to do as presenting a ‘false face.’

Question 13

Appears loyal to the King

Answer 13

• “In doing it, pays itself.”

Question 14

In a trance, yet acutely aware of what he has one.

Answer 14

• “To know my deed, ‘twere best not know myself”

- “Macbeth doth murder sleep.”