macbeth

Question 1

who wrote macbeth ?

Answer 1

shakespear

Question 2

what are the main 8 plot points ?

Answer 2

macbeth meets the witches

lady macbeth encourages macbeth to kill the king

macbeth kills duncan and becomes king

macbeth has banquo killed

more predictions from the witches

macduff swears revenge

lady macbeth suffers guilt

macduff defeats macbeth

Question 3

what is macbeth ?

Answer 3

thane of glamis

Question 4

what is the witches first prediction ?

Answer 4

macbeth will become thane of cawdor and eventually king

Question 5

what happens to macbeth after he becomes thane of cawdor ?

Answer 5

he starts to think he could become king - ambition starts to appear

Question 6

what opportunity presents itself to macbeth ?

Answer 6

duncan is due to stay at the macbeths house

Question 7

what does lady macbeth do when she finds out that duncan is staying ?

Answer 7

plans his murder

Question 8

quote - witches

Answer 8

Fair is foul, and foul is fair

Question 9

quote - lady macbeth brutal

Answer 9

unsex me here

Question 10

quote - lady macbeth snake

Answer 10

Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under’t.

Question 11

quote - lady macbeth kindness

Answer 11

Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness.

Question 12

quote - macbeth guilt free

Answer 12

Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?

Question 13

quote - macbeth guilt

Answer 13

O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!

Question 14

quote - lady macbeth incentive to macbeth

Answer 14

When thou durst do it, then you were a man

Question 15

quote - banquo devil

Answer 15

What can the devil speak true ?

– shows his view on the witches - they are evil and liars

Question 16

quote - macbeth desire

Answer 16

Let not light see my black and deep desires

Question 17

quote - macbeth sleep

Answer 17

Sleep no more!

Macbeth does murder sleep

Question 18

quote - witches about macbeth

Answer 18

Something wicked this way comes

Question 19

quote - banquo thoughts

Answer 19

restrain in me the cursed thoughts

– shows he too is having thoughts about murdering duncan

Question 20

quote - macduff not born from woman

Answer 20

Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb

Untimely ripped

Question 21

quote - macduff finds king

Answer 21

o , horror horror horror !

Most sacrilegious murder hath broke

– sacrilegious means violating sacred things - macb eth has violated god

Question 22

quote - witches first apparition

Answer 22

Beware Macduff; Beware the Thane of Fife

Question 23

quote - witches second apparition

Answer 23

none of women born Shall harm Macbeth

Question 24

quote - witches third apparition

Answer 24

(none) until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane Hill Shall come against him

Question 25

quote - macbeth loses trust in the witches

Answer 25

and be these juggling fiends no more believed

Question 26

quote - macbeths reaction to wifes death

Answer 26

she should have died hereafter

two interpretations

• • she would have died sooner or later - uncaring
• • she should have died later so he had time to mourn

Question 27

quote - lady macbeth guilt

Answer 27

what, will these hands ne’er be clean ?

Question 28

quote - macduff mock

Answer 28

here may you see the tyrant