Macbeth Flashcards
How is Macbeth described after killing a traitor in Act 1?
“valour’s minion carved”
What does Macbeth call the witches?
“imperfect speakers”
What does Macbeth say in his soliloquy about King Duncan’s murder after being told the prophecy that he may become King?
“whose murder yet is but fantastical”
What does he say in his soliloquy (his motivations for killing Duncan) about a chalice?
“our poison’d chalice”
How does he show that he is insecure in his soliloquy about killing Duncan?
“his virtues will please like angels”
What does he say about his ambition in his soliloquy about his motivations for killing Duncan?
“only vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself and fall on the other”
What does he say in his soliloquy when he sees the dagger, about what it is doing?
“Marshall’st me that way that I was going”
What does Macbeth call the hallucinatory dagger?
“an instrument”
What does Macbeth say about why he sees the dagger?
“the bloody business which informs thus to mine eyes”
What does he say about his lineage in his soliloquy about his fears about Banquo?
“upon my head they placed a fruitless crown… a barren sceptre in my gripe”
What is the name of his servant?
‘Seyton’
What does he say about his own tale after hearing that his wife is dead?
“tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”
What does he command Banquo’s ghost not to do?
“never shake they gory locks at me”
