Macbeth

Question 1

Macbeth is known as a….

Answer 1

Tragic hero

Question 2

Describe macbeth

Answer 2

-Highly renowned
-Good to bad
-Misfortune brought about by personal error

Question 3

Define hamartia

Answer 3

A fatal flaw leading to downfall of tragic hero or heroine

Question 4

What is macbeths hamartia

Answer 4

His ambition

Question 5

Sergeant calls macbeth…

Answer 5

‘Brave macbeth’

Question 6

How does macbeth kill macdonwald

Answer 6

Cuts him open from “the nave to th’ chops”

Question 7

What kind of world is the play set in?

Answer 7

A world where people prove themselves worthy of honour by their actions on the battlefield

Question 8

What is jacobean society like?

Answer 8

A society that has no principle of rule other than strength

Question 9

What are banquo and macbeth at the beginning of the play?

Answer 9

Perfect Parallels

Question 10

How does banquo recact to the witches prophecies?

Answer 10

-Not interested
-skeptical
-weary

Question 11

How does macbeth recact to the witches prophecies?

Answer 11

The witches give a voice to macbeths inner ambition - becoming king.
Macbeth decends into a path of destruction which ultimately brings about his demise

Question 12

How does macbeth address his wife in act 1 scene 5?

Answer 12

‘My dearest love’

Question 13

How does macbeth react to his wifes death in act 5 scene 5

Answer 13

‘She should have died hereafter’

Question 14

Near the end of the play, after all the murders, what has macbeth lost?

Answer 14

The ability to feel empathy emotion towards others. Even his wife

Question 15

In act 1 scene 7 macbeth admits to what? (In his soliloquy)

Answer 15

His ‘vaulting ambition’. He admits to his hamartia. He wants to kill king duncan

Question 16

Who does macbeth cause the deaths of and how?

Answer 16

-Duncan (killed by macbeth)
-Banquo (three assassins hired by macbeth)
-Fleance (same as banquo, but he escapes)
Lady Macduff and her children (macbeth sends murderers to kill them)

Question 17

What do the witches say as macbeth approaches in act 4 scene 3?

Answer 17

‘Something wicked this way comes’

Question 18

How does malcom describe macbeth in act 4 scene 3?

Answer 18

‘Tyrant whose sole name blisters our tounge’
‘Devilish’

Question 19

How does malcom refer to macheth in act 5 scene 5?

Answer 19

‘Dead, butcher’
(Reffering to macbeths death)

Question 20

Why does macbeth need to evoke sympathy in the audience?

Answer 20

So when he dies, the audience pitied him. If macbeth is hated then no lesson will be learnt from his downfall

Question 21

Macbeth is a character of…

Answer 21

…good reputation whos one fatal flaw leads to his downfall

Question 22

Why does king duncans murder take place off stage

Answer 22

To help the audience to still see some shred of humanity in macbeth

Question 23

Why does macbeth not kill banquo, lady macduff, and her kids himself?

Answer 23

Audience would not feel a shred of pitty for macbeth if they witnessed him murder his friend and other innocents

Question 24

What quote in act 3 scene 2 shows macheths change in character?

Answer 24

‘Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, till thou applaud the deed’

Question 25

Why does macbeth not share his plans with his wife?

Answer 25

Their relationship is falling apart as macbeths hamartia takes control

Question 26

What quote from macbeth in act 2 scene 1 shows that he is hallucinating?

Answer 26

‘Is this a dagger which i see before me?’ - psychological affect of the guilt macbeth feels

Question 27

What is the quote about scorpians

Answer 27

‘O, full of scorpians is my mind dear’ - the guilt is psychologically breaking macbeth

Question 28

What quote from macbeth mirrors the witches quote, “Fair is foul and foul is fair.”?

Answer 28

“So foul and fair a day, i have not seen”

Question 29

Whats the philosophy of macbeth?

Answer 29

Do lady macbeth and the witches actually influence macbeth, or does he just twist their words to fit his own cruel intentions