Macbeth

Question 1

What are the key plot points of Macbeth?

Answer 1

• Witches prophecies cause ambition in Macbeth
• Macbeth and Lady Macbeth plot and kill Duncan
• Macbeth kills Banquo
• Macduff flees and his family is killed
• Macbeth gets three more prophecies from the witches
• Rebellion led by Malcolm and Macduff
• Macbeth killed by Macduff

Question 2

What is the key genres of Macbeth?

Answer 2

• Tragedy
• Hamartia (Fatal flaw leads to downfall)

Question 3

What is the context of Macbeth?

Answer 3

• Social hierarchy
• Divine right of Kings
• Supernatural chaos
• Elizabethan women

Question 4

What are the key themes of Macbeth?

Answer 4

• Ambition
• Supernatural
• Loyalty and guilt
• Reality and appearance

Question 5

What are some key quotes for Macbeth?

Answer 5

• “Art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation,”
• “Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself/ and falls on the other,”
• “So foul and fair, a day I have not seen,”
• “I dare do all that may become a man,”

Question 6

What are some key quotes for Lady Macbeth?

Answer 6

• “Unsex me here,”
• “Too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness,”
• “Looks like the innocent flower but be the serpent under ‘t,”
• “A little water clears us of this deed,”
• “Out damned spot : out I say!”

Question 7

What are some key quotes for King Duncan?

Answer 7

• “We love him highly, and shall continue our graces towards him,”
• “Fair and noble hostess, we are your guest to-night,”
• “O Valiant cousin, worthy gentleman!”
• “O worthiest cousin! The sin of my ingratitude even now was heavy on me,”

Question 8

What are some key quotes for Banquo?

Answer 8

• “If you could can look into the seeds of Thyme and say which grain will grow and which will not then speak to me who neither beg nor your favors nor your hate,”
• “Merciful powers restrain in me the cursive thoughts that nature gives way to in repose,”
  -“Thou has it now king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,”

Question 9

What are some key quotes for the witches?

Answer 9

• “When the battles lost and won,”
• “Fair is foul and foul is fair,”
• “When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning or rain?”

Question 10

What are some key quotes for Macduff?

Answer 10

• ” O horror, horror, horror, tongue cannot conceive, nor name thee,”
• ” but I must also feel it like a man”
• ” All my pretty ones? Did you say all?”

Question 11

What are some key quotes for Malcolm?

Answer 11

• ” The smile on men’s faces are daggers,”

Question 12

What are some details of Macbeth?

Answer 12

• Ambitious man
• Thane of Glamis –> Thane of Cawdor –> King
• Broke the divine right of Kings
• Beheaded by Macduff

Keywords:
- Indecisive, ambitious, impulsive, callous, tyrannous,

Question 13

What are some details of Lady Macbeth?

Answer 13

• Macbeths wife
• Manipulates Macbeth to commit regicide
• Powerful presence
  -Falls victim to guilt and madness

Keywords:
- MANIPULATIVE, dominant, weak, emasculating

Question 14

What are some details of King Duncan?

Answer 14

• Noble King
• Father to Malcolm and Donalbain
• Victim of a well plotted regicide

Keywords:
- Generous, kind yet firm, regal, innocent

Question 15

What are some details of Banquo?

Answer 15

• Macbeths friend
• Threat to Macbeth
• Murdered by Macbeth

Keywords:
- Loyal, curious, intuitive, skeptical, brave, noble

Question 16

What are some details of the witches?

Answer 16

• Could be ‘weird sisters’
• Represents the supernatural
• Leads Macbeth to his demise
• Predicts Macbeth would be king, Banquo’s children will be kings and Macbeth will be Thane of Cawdor

Keywords:
- Dark, dangerous, supernatural, evil

Question 17

What are some details of Macduff?

Answer 17

• Born by caesarian birth
• Thegn of Fife
• Discovers Duncan’s body
• Becomes Malcolm’s chief supporter
• Family is murdered
• Gets revenge on Macbeth (beheaded him)

Keywords:
- Emotive, sensitive, vengeful, victorious

Question 18

What are some details of Malcolm?