Macbeth

Question 1

Give a pun by Lady macbeth used to reveal her thoughts

Answer 1

‘Fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelety’

Question 2

Give a quote that shows us Macbeths fatal flaw

Answer 2

‘I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition’

Question 3

Give a quote that shows juxtaposition from the witches

Answer 3

Fair is foul and foul is fair

Question 4

Give a quote that shows Macbeth is brave

Answer 4

For brave macbeth, well he deserves that name

Question 5

Give a quote that shows that Macbeth is unnecessarily brutal

Answer 5

‘unseemed him from the nave to the chops’

Question 6

Give a quote that foreshadows Macbeths fate

Answer 6

‘Fixed his head upon our battlements’ Macbeth to the traitorous thane

Question 7

Give a quote used to describe macbeths victory

Answer 7

What he hath lost, noble macbeth has won

Question 8

Give a quote that foreshadows macbeths lackof sleep by the witches

Answer 8

Sleep shall neither night nor day

Question 9

Give a quote that shows Macbeths desire to have information even if it comes from immoral sources

Answer 9

stay you imperfected speakers tell me more

Question 10

Give a quote that shows that the witches have no hold over Banquo

Answer 10

‘neither beg nor fear your favours nor your hate’

Question 11

Give a quote that shows Lady macbeth emmasculating Macbeth

Answer 11

When you durst do it then you were a man

Question 12

Give a quote showing macbeths realisation

Answer 12

‘life…is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing’

Question 13

Give a quote linking to the suupernatural by Macbeth

Answer 13

‘Stars hide your fires, let not light see my dark and deep desires’

Question 14

Give a quote linking to the suupernatural by Lady Macbeth

Answer 14

“Come, thick night and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of Hell […] nor Heaven peep through”

Question 15

Give a quote Malcolm uses to describe macbeth and Lady Macbeth

Answer 15

“The dead butcher and his fiend-like queen”

Question 16

Give a quote that shows that Lady Macbeth feels entrapped by her femininity

Answer 16

“Come you spirits […] Unsex me here”

Question 17

Give a quote that shows Lady Macbeth attempting to manipulate duality

Answer 17

“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent underneath it”

Question 18

Give a quote that shows that Lady macbeth is mentally suffering

Answer 18

“Out, damned spot: out, I say!”

Question 19

Give a quote that shows that Macbeth is regretting his choices

Answer 19

“Out, out, brief candle”

Question 20

Give a quote that shows that Lady Macbeth changes viewpoints about the ease with which she can clear her conscience

Answer 20

“A little water clears us of this deed”
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”

Question 21

Give a quote that links to the witches

Answer 21

“So foul and fair a day I have not seen”

Question 22

Give a quote that shows a way Macbeth brings ruin

Answer 22

‘Macbeth does murder sleep’