Macbeth

Question 1

What is a Shakespearean tragedy?

Answer 1

A play in which a hero ‘falls’ from high status to low, and usually dies/exiled.

Question 2

What is a tragic flaw?

Answer 2

A personality trait that causes a heroes downfall, they are usually unaware of it.

Question 3

‘It is too full o’ the milk of ____ ______

Answer 3

Human Kindness - Demasculinising Macbeth and saying he is too compassionate

Question 4

‘Thus thou must do, if thou have it’

Answer 4

Macbeth is willing to do what must be done for his country

Question 5

‘That I may pour spirits in thine ear’

Answer 5

Lady Macbeth actually ends up doing this, M becomes dictator, LM is left without spirit.

Question 6

‘Art not without ______’

Answer 6

Ambition - LM is stating M has ambition but he isn’t nurturing it.

Question 7

‘Chastise with the valor of my _____’

Answer 7

‘Tongue’ - LM will not back down from insisting M

Question 8

‘All that _____ thee from the golden round’

Answer 8

‘Impedes’ means stop, LM will stop anything preventing M from becoming king.

Question 9

Quotes for Initial Description of M (Act 1, Scene 3)

Answer 9

‘Brave Macbeth’
‘O Valiant Cousin! Worthy Gentleman!’
‘Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel’

Question 10

Quotes for Macbeth’s first meeting and description of the witches (Act 1, Scene 3)

Answer 10

‘So foul and fair a day I have not seen’
‘Yet your beards’
‘Stay, you imperfect speakers’

Question 11

Quotes for Macbeth’s initial thoughts of regicide (Act 1, Scene 3)

Answer 11

‘Make my seated heart knock at my ribs’
‘Chance may crown me, without my stir’
‘Horrid image doth unfix my hair’

Question 12

Lady Macbeth’s first thoughts about Macbeth and regicide (Act 1, Scene V)

Answer 12

‘I fear thy nature; it is too full o’ the milk of human kindness’
‘I may pour spirits in thine ear’
‘Take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers’

Question 13

Quotes for Macbeth’s hesitation to commit regicide (Act 1, Scene 7)

Answer 13

‘I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition’
‘He’s here in double trust’
‘We will proceed no further in this business’

Question 14

Quotes for LM’s blackmailing of M to commit regicide (Act 1 Scene 7)

Answer 14

‘Live a coward in thine own esteem’
‘When you durst do it, then you were a man’
‘Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums and dash’d the brains out’

Question 15

Quotes for The dagger scene (Act 2, Scene 1)

Answer 15

‘I go and it is done; the bell invites me’

‘Is this a dagger which i see before me… come, let me clutch thee’

‘A dagger of the mind, a false creation’

Question 16

Quotes for Macbeth’s feeling of guilt having killed Duncan and Lady Macbeth’s response (Act 2, Scene 2)

Answer 16

‘Macbeth shall sleep no longer’
‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood’
‘My hands are of your colour (LM)’

Question 17

Quotes for Ross and the old man on changes since Duncan’s death (Act 2, Scene 4)

Answer 17

‘The earth was feverous and did shake’

Question 18

Quotes for Macbeth’s unease with Banquo (Act 3, Scene 1)

Answer 18

‘To be thus is nothing; but to be safely thus’.
‘Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown and put a barren sceptre in my gripe’
‘Mine eternal jewel’

Question 19

Quotes for Macbeth and LM feeling insecure (Act 3, Scene 2)

Answer 19

-‘We have scotch’d the snake, not killed it.’
‘O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!’
‘Duncan is in his grave; after life’s fitful fever he sleeps well.’

Question 20

Quotes for Banquo’s ghost (Act 3, Scene 4)

Answer 20

-Never shake thy gory locks at me’
‘Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold’.

‘This is the very painting of your fear’.

Question 21

Quotes for the three apparitions and M new attitude towards witches (Act 4, Scene 1)

Answer 21

-‘Secret, black and midnight hags!’
-‘Horrible sight’
‘The very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand’

Question 22

Quotes for LM on motherhood (Act 4, Scene 2)

Answer 22

-‘Where to do harm is often laudable’
-‘Her young ones in her nest, against the owl’.

Question 23

Quotes for Malcom’s attitude towards his kingship (Act 4, Scene 3)

Answer 23

-‘Destroying them for wealth’
-‘But i have none… justice, verity, temperance, stableness’.
‘Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell’.

Question 24

Quotes for LM sleepwalking (Act 5, Scene 1)

Answer 24

-Out, damned spot! Out, i say!’
-‘Hell is murky’
-‘Will these hands ne’er be clean’
-‘All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand’

Question 25

Quotes for M anagnorisis (Act 5, Scene 5)

Answer 25

-Till famine and the ague eat them up’
-‘Almost forgot the taste of fears’
-‘Tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow’
-‘She should have died hereafter’
-‘Life’s but a walking shadow…… Told by an idiot…. Signifying nothing.’

Question 26

Quotes for Malcom becoming King (Act 5, Scene 9)

Answer 26

-‘That fled the snares of watchful tyranny’
-‘the cruel ministers of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen’
-‘Whom we invite to see us crown’d at Scone’.

Question 27

Quotes for deception in Macbeth

Answer 27

“Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires.”

“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it.”

“There’s daggers in men’s smiles” - Donaldbain

Question 28

Quotes for Duncan

Answer 28

“Here lay Duncan, his silver skin laced with his golden blood”

“The earth was feverous and did shake”