Macbeth🗡️🧙‍♀️👑

Question 1

In _______ , _______ , or in rain?

Answer 1

thunder, lightening

Question 2

When the ________ done,

Answer 2

hurly-burly’s

Question 3

When the battle’s _____________

Answer 3

lost, and won

Question 4

_________ calls.

Answer 4

Paddock

Question 5

Paired Quotation!!

Witches: Fair is ______ , and _____ is fair
Macbeth: ‘So foul and fair a day _ ____ ___ ____

Answer 5

foul
I have not seen

• Paradox: contradictory statement
• Macbeth echoes: led by them or under their spell, Macbeth’s ‘fair’ character will be corrupted and become most ‘foul’

Question 6

with his __________ steel

Answer 6

brandished

Question 7

Which _____ with bloody ______

Answer 7

smoked, execution

Question 8

______ out his passage

Answer 8

carved

Question 9

___________ him from the nave to th’chaps

Answer 9

unseamed

Question 10

What he hath lost, _____ _________ hath won.

Answer 10

noble Macbeth

Question 11

The _________ himself is hoarse
That _________ the fatal entrance of Duncan

Answer 11

raven, croaks

Question 12

LM : Under my ___________

Answer 12

Battlements

Question 13

LM: Come, you spirits
That tend on ______ __________, __________ me here.

Answer 13

mortal thoughts, unsex

• Imperative verbs: shows her power and her hubris: arrogant to believe that she can control evil forces.
• Subvert characteristics of a typical women
• Only by adopting male characteristics can women gain power
• Very unnatural, akin to actions of the witches (Jacobean)

Question 14

Fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
___ ________ ________.

Answer 14

Of direst cruelty

Question 15

Take my ____ ____ ______.

Answer 15

Milk for gall

Question 16

What Act and and Scene is Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy in?

Answer 16

Act 1 Scene 5

Question 17

Vaulting ambition which ________ ______
And falls on th’other.

Answer 17

O’erleaps itself

Question 18

The multitudinous ____ ________

Answer 18

seas, incarnadine

Question 19

Will all great Neptunes ocean wash this blood
_____ ______ ___ ___?

Answer 19

Clean from my hand

Question 20

Paired quotation!!

LM: Out, _________ ______
M: Out, out ____ _______

Answer 20

Damned spot
brief candle

• LM’s desperation (punctuation/repetition)
• Imperative verbs - ironic (commands to pleas)
• LM’s desperation has turned into a reflection of Macbeth: pathos, couple closer, worthless deeds

Question 21

Yet who would have though the old man to have had ____ _______ _______ ___ _____?

Answer 21

so much blood in him

Question 22

Life’s but a walking shadow, __ ______ _______

Answer 22

a poor player

Question 23

It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
__________ ________.

Answer 23

Signifying nothing

• After Macbeth is told of the death of LM
• Example of nihilism: a belief that life is pointless
• In Jacobean audience, rejection of God’s plan (heaven/ hell) would have been shocking
• Moment of pathos - sympathy
• Moment of anagnorisis: a tragic hero’s realisation that all his actions were for nothing

Question 24

Look like the innocent flower, ____ ___ ____ _______ ______.

Answer 24

But be the serpent under’t.

• LM’s duplicitous nature
• Imperative verb - power of M
• Religious connotation (snake-devil)

Question 25

I have no spur to prick the does of my intent, but only ________ _______.

Answer 25

Vaulting ambition

• States his hamartia
• Macbeth’s fatal flaw overcomes all of his other, positive character traits.

Question 26

Yet I do fear thy nature. __ __ ___ ____ _____ ____ __ _____ ________

Answer 26

It is too full o’th’ milk of human kindness.

Question 27

Here lay Duncan, his silver skin laced with his ________ ______, and his gashed tabs looked like a ______ __ _______ for ruin’s wasteful entrance.

Answer 27

golden blood
breach in nature

Question 28

But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound I’m to _______ ______ and ______.

Answer 28

saucy doubts AND fears

Question 29

O full of _________ __ ___ ______, dear wife!

Answer 29

scorpions is my mind

Question 30

I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. It ______, it ______, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds.

Answer 30

weeps, bleeds

Question 31

LM: When you durst do it, then you ______ __ ____

Answer 31

were a man

-LM is attacking Macbeth’s masculinity
- In Jacobean era, manliness would have been equated with strength
- Example of role reversal
- LM’s power is in her skills of deception and manipulation

Question 32

Paired quotation!!

Macbeth: Stars hide your _____; let not light see my _____ ____ ______ ______

LM: Come, thick night and pall thee __ ___ _______ ____ __ ____ […] nor Heaven peep through

Answer 32

fires, dark and deep desires-
in the dunnest smoke of Hell

• close relationship based on shared ideas
• M speaks lines after LM suggests Macbeth is led, or controlled by LM
• Both characters away of the significance/consequence of committing regicide
• Imperative verb - disrupts Great Chain

Question 33

Malcolm: The dead butcher and his _____-____ ______

Answer 33

fiend-like Queen

• Macbeth described as a ‘butcher’ - kills without feeling or remorse
• LM described as a demon - reference to witches

Question 34

Paired Quotation!!

LM: A little water _____ __ __ ____ ____
LM: All the perfumes of Arabia ____ ___ ______ ____ _____ ____

Answer 34

clears us of this dead
will not sweeten this little hand

• Hands represent responsibility
• Ironic that later in the play, LM sees blood on her hands
• Original confidence was misplaced
• Overwhelming guilt

Question 35

Macbeth: Macbeth does murder ______

Answer 35

Sleep

• Sleep symbolises peace or calm, M will not longer be at peace
• M has murdered his one chance at peace - and perhaps eternal peace: Heaven
• M’s own conscience

Question 36

Captain: For brace Macbeth - _____ __ _______ ______ ______ (Act _ Scene _ )

Answer 36

well he deserves that name.
(Act 1 Scene 2)