macbeth

Question 1

To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo stick deep.

Answer 1

(Macbeth soliloquy) To be king is nothing, but to be securely stationed in a position of power is much better. Macbeth thinks Banquo will turn him in.

Question 2

It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul’s flight, if it find heaven, must find it out tonight.

Answer 2

(Macbeth soliloquy) Macbeth has successfully arranged Banquo’s death.

Question 3

Naught’s had, all’s spent, where our desire is got without content.

Answer 3

(Lady Macbeth soliloquy) They have their goal but not the happiness they expected to come with it.

Question 4

Things without all remedy should be without regard; what’s done is done.

Answer 4

(Lady Macbeth to Macbeth) She wants him to be happy and move on because there is no way to change what has happened.

Question 5

We’ve scorched the snake, not killed it.

Answer 5

(Macbeth to Lady Macbeth) They cannot stop their violence because the need for power will never end.

Question 6

Things bad begun make themselves strong by ill.

Answer 6

(Macbeth to Lady Macbeth) The only way to make this right is by continuing to attack.

Question 7

Oh treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly! Fly fly!

Answer 7

(Banquo to Fleance) Banquo died and Fleance lived; Banquo knows Macbeth sent the murderers

Question 8

The worm that’s fled hath nature that in time will venom breed, no teeth for the present.

Answer 8

(Macbeth to murderer) He knows Fleance is a threat to the throne.

Question 9

Thou canst not say that I did it; never shake thy gory locks at me.

Answer 9

(Macbeth to Ghost of Banquo) Macbeth claims that his use of the murderers makes him not guilty. He tells the ghost to leave.

Question 10

Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends, I have a strange infirmity which is nothing to those that know me.

Answer 10

(Macbeth to lords) Macbeth adopts Lady Macbeth’s idea that the reason for his strange outbursts is a disease.

Question 11

I am in blood stepped so far that, should I wade no more, returning were so tedious as go o’er.

Answer 11

Macbeth to Lady Macbeth) He is in too deep. Just as much effort is required to fight than to surrender.

Question 12

“I conjure you by that which you profess
Howe’er you come to know it, answer me”

Answer 12

Macbeth speaking to the witches
Macbeth is worried about being King and worried about people finding out he killed Duncan. He goes to the witches for help

Question 13

“Whate’er thou art, for thy good caution thanks!
Thou hast harped my fear alright”

Answer 13

Macbeth speaking to the witches.
He is thanking the apparition for warning him about Macduff.

Question 14

“Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn
The po’r of man, for none of woman born
Shall harm Macbeth”

Answer 14

Second apparition speaking to Macbeth
It told Macbeth that he is safe from all born from a women.

Question 15

“That will never be.
Who can impress the forest, bid the tree
Unfix his earth-bound root? Sweet bodements, good!

Answer 15

Macbeth speaking to the witches
He believes that what the third apparition said is impossible, so he is very safe.

Question 16

“Horrible sight! Now I see ‘tis true;
For the blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me
And points at them for his”

Answer 16

Macbeth speaking to the witches
He is asking the witches about banquos sons being King, they show him a long line of people that look like Banquo. Macbeth is mad because he wanted his family to heir to the throne not banquos.

Question 17

“He had none.
His flight was madness. When our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors”

Answer 17

Lady Macduff speaking to Ross
Ross is trying to calm her down, she is mad at her husband who fled to England. She believes his actions make him look like a traitor.

Question 18

“I pray you school yourself. But for your husband,
He is noble, wise, judicious, and best knows
The fits o’ the season”

Answer 18

Ross speaking to Lady Macduff
He is trying to assure her that Macduff is loyal and noble.

Question 19

‘Out, damned spot: I say!’

Answer 19

Lady Macbeth 5.1 - Struck with guilt, unable to cope with what she had done. Suggests that a woman could never sucessfully overturn the patriarchy.

Question 20

‘Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane, I cannot taint with fear.’

Answer 20

Macbeth 5.3 - Showing extreme arrogance and acting like he is an untouchable god. Thinks he is untouchable since the Witches tricked him into a false sense of security.

Question 21

‘She should have died hereafter,’

Answer 21

Macbeth 5.4 - (About the death of Lady Macbeth) Feels little remorse about her death, shows how the passion has gone. Also interesting how she dies off stage, displaying how unimportant she now is.

Question 22

‘and now a wood comes to Dunsinane’

Answer 22

Macbeth 5.5 - Turning point, beginning of Macbeth’s downfall, now more vulnerable.

Question 23

‘Macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped’

Answer 23

Macduff 5.8 - Mockery of Macbeth from witches when the prophecies are becoming possible, breaks down his walls completely marking the end of Macbeth.

Question 24

‘Hail, King, for so thou art’

Answer 24

Macduff 5.9 - Even though he was the one to kill Macbeth, he happily names Malcolm as the rightful King, an admirable character.