Macbeth

Question 1

Ambition

Answer 1

“Let not light see my black and deep desires” - Macbeth

• “I have no spur to prick of my intent” - Macbeth
• “stars hide their fires” - Macbeth
• “Look like innocent flower but be the serpent under’t” =Lady Macbeth

Question 2

Kingship

Answer 2

• “for brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name” = Captain

- “Why do you dress me in borrow’d robes?”

Question 3

Fate and free will

Answer 3

• “Why do you dress me in borrow’d robes?”

- “Out, out brief candle!”

Question 4

Appearance and reality

Answer 4

• “so foul and fair a day I have not seen”

- “come you spirits… unsex me hear”

Question 5

Light and darkness

Answer 5

• “stars, hid your fire; let not light see my black and deep desires”
• “unseamed from the nave to th’ chops”
• “the instruments of darkness tell us the truth”

Question 6

Violence

Answer 6

• “sleep no more Macbeth does murder sleep”
• “unseamed from the nave to th’ chops”
• “Blood will have blood”

Question 7

Betrayal / Loyalty

Answer 7

• “Why do you dress me in borrow’d robes?”
• “for brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name” = Captain
• “Look like innocent flower but be the serpent under’t” =Lady Macbeth

Question 8

Gulit

Answer 8

• “out damned spot! out i say!”
• ” will great neptune’s ocean was this blood clean from my hand”
• ” a little water clears us of this deed”

Question 9

Power

Answer 9

• “Blood will have blood”

- “out brief candle out i say”

Question 10

Gender

Answer 10

• “come you spirits… unsex me hear”
• “take my milk for gall”
• “for brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name” = Captain

Question 11

Banquo

Answer 11

“noble”, “worthy”

Question 12

Macduff

Answer 12

“O horror, horror, horror, Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee! What is this? …
“All my pretty ones? Did you say all? …
“I shall do so, But I must also feel it as a man.” …
“Bleed, bleed, poor country! Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure, For goodness dare not check thee.” …
“Tyrant, show thy face!