macbeth

Question 1

macbeths ambition

Answer 1

stars hide your fires let not light see my black and deepest desires

Question 2

macbeth symbolising moral consequence of trusting supernatural

Answer 2

the way to dusty death out out brief candle

Question 3

macbeth proving inevitability of fate

Answer 3

disdaining fortune
unseam from nave to th’ chaps
head fixed upon battlements

Question 4

macbeths guilt

Answer 4

will all of Neptunes ocean wash this blood clean from my hands

Question 5

lady macbeth as a catalyst

Answer 5

too full of the milk of human kindness

Question 6

lady macbeth representing theme of appearance vs reality

Answer 6

look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t

Question 7

lady macbeth strongly reminiscent of witches

Answer 7

dashed brains out

Question 8

lady macbeths guilty conscience

Answer 8

out damned spot
thane of fife had a wife

Question 9

the witches ambiguity

Answer 9

when battles lost and won

Question 10

the witches as supernatural

Answer 10

double double toil and trouble

Question 11

witches role parallel to womens role in society

Answer 11

valour of my tongue

Question 12

the witches as agents of evil

Answer 12

your face my thane is like a book

Question 13

banquo as antithesis to macbeth

Answer 13

neither beg nor fear your favours nor your hate
(macbeth: rapt withal)

Question 14

banquos moralistic character

Answer 14

merciful powers restrain me in the cursed thoughts

Question 15

banquo as epitome of noble

Answer 15

fly good fleance fly fly fly

Question 16

banquos loyalty

Answer 16

my duties
forever knit

Question 17

macduff moralistic character

Answer 17

most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope the lords anointed temple

Question 18

macduff as voice of scotland

Answer 18

new widows howl new orphans cry new sorrows

Question 19

macduff antithesis to expectation of masculinity

Answer 19

my children too?

Question 20

macduff as foil to macbeth

Question 21

ambition

Answer 21

macbeth ambition
banquos resistance to ambition
lady macbeths consequence of her ambition
witches act as catalysts to create chaos using macbeths untrenched ambition

Question 22

masculinity

Answer 22

macbeths violent behaviour seen as recipient to expectation of masculinity
macbeth emasculated through his guilt and fear
macduff emotional form of manhood presented honourably
macduff brave morals as ideal man

Question 23

appearance vs reality

Answer 23

Lady Macbeth‘s obstruction of sinful nature
Banquo and his hidden scepticism of Macbeth
Macbeth’s attempt to mask his ambition due to his guilt
The ways in which reality in appearance is manipulated and altered is facilitated through the witches use of ambiguity


Question 24

Femininity

Answer 24

Lady Macbeth emasculating Macbeth to manipulate him and therefore goes beyond limits of femininity and against her position in the great chain of being
Lady Macbeth subversion of femininity to escape gender binary to fulfill ambition
The witches role as parallel to woman’s role in society
Lady Macbeth’s rejection of motherhood 

Question 25

Supernatural

Answer 25

Macbeth to show moral consequence of trusting supernatural
Lady Macbeth being strongly reminiscent of the witches
Banquos resistance to the witches temptation
Witches portrayal of supernatural as agents of evil

Question 26

kingship vs tyranny 

Answer 26

macbeths violent behaviour foreshadowing his tyrannical behaviour
banquo as epitome of nobility and morality all traits of kingship
macduff as voice of scotland showing devastation of a tyrant displaying the vast impact of a kings reign on a country
True kingship presented by the holiness of Duncans reign seen in the stability of Scotland with Duncan as a pinnacle of justice