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Macbeth Flashcards

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Summarise Act 1 Scene 1

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Three witches gather and plan to meet Macbeth

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Summarise Act 1 Scene 2

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A captain praises Macbeth for helping defeat Macdonald and the thane of Cawdaw is captured-Duncan tells Ross to greet Macbeth with the title

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Summarise Act 1 Scene 3

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The witches meet on the heath and encounter Macbeth and Banquo giving them their prophecies

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Summarise Act 1 Scene 4

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Duncan thanks both Macbeth and Banquo and promises that his son will become king after he dies-causing conflict for Macbeth

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Summarise Act 1 Scene 5

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Lady Macbeth reads the letter from Macbeth and Macbeth arrives home and Lady Macbeth immediately introduces the possibility of murder

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Summarise Act 1 Scene 6

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Duncan and the thanes arrive at Macbeth’s castle and Lady Macbeth welcomes him

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Summarise Act 1 Scene 7

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Outside the banqueting hall Macbeth considers his thoughts about killing Duncan, reconsiders but is called a coward by Lady Macbeth and sticks with the plan

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Summarise Act 2 Scene 1

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Banquo and his son Fleance unexpectantly meet Macbeth-are surprised he is still awake-alone goes to Duncan’s chambers to murder the king and sees a vision of a bloody dagger

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Summarise Act 2 Scene 2

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Macbeth returns to Lady Macbeth who returns in fear-Lady Macbeth returns the daggers and there is knocking

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Summarise Act 2 Scene 3

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The Porter answer the door of the castle to Macduff and Lennox who have come to meet with Duncan-Macbeth shows Macduff to Duncan’s chambers where they uncover the murder-Malcom decides to go to England and Donaldbain to Ireland

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Summarise Act 2 Scene 4

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Ross talks to an old man about unnatural things that have been happening and Malcom and Donaldbain are blamed by Macduff for the murder. Macbeth is reported to be named king

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Summarise Act 3 Scene 1

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Banquo suspects that Macbeth killed Duncan to achieve the throne and in a meal Banquo and Macbeth agree to go riding in the afternoon-then tells a soliloquy about his dears that Banquo’s children will become future kings-he convinces 2 murderers to kill Banquo and his son Fleance

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Summarise Act 3 Scene 2

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Lady Macbeth is concerned about Macbeth’s misery and comforts him

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Summarise Act 3 Scene 3

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The murderers attack Banquo and Fleance and Fleance manages to escape

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Summarise Act 3 Scene 4

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Whilst guests are arriving to the banquet one of the murderers arrive and tell Macbeth the news. Macbeth sees the ghost of Banquo sat in his place a the table and goes mad

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Summarise Act 3 Scene 5

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Hecate the Goddess of Witchcraft is angry with the witches for giving prophecies to Macbeth without consulting her

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Summarise Act 3 Scene 6

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Lennox is suspicious about the murders of Duncan and Banqup and reports how Macduff ‘lives in disgrace’ since missing the Macbeth’s feast

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Summarise Act 4 Scene 1

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The witches cast a spell around a cauldron congratulated by Hecate. Macbeth visits the witches and show him three apparitions-more prophecies

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Summarise Act 4 Scene 2

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Lady Macduff is worried about why her husband has Fled to England, ross reassures her of Macduff’s innocence but leavs after. Murders arrive seeking Macduff but finding him gone kill both his son and wife

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Summarise Act 4 Scene 3

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Macduff tells Malcom of how Scotland is suffering under Macbeth, Malcom announces that his own vices are worse than Macbeth but Macduff excuses these until Malcom claims that he will bring chaos on Scotland. Malcom’s suspicions are gone and gets ready with Old Siward and 10,000 men to invade Scotland

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Summarise Act 5 Scene 1

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Lady Macbeth sleepwalks and admits her guilt in-front of a doctor

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Summarise Act 5 Scene 2

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The thanes discuss how the English forces are approaching-the group begin their march towards Birnam Wood

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Summarise Act 5 Scene 3

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Macbeth angrily dismisses those who bring him reports of attack and reassures himself with the witches prophecies

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Summarise Act 5 Scene 4

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The scottish lords gather with Malcom, Macduff and their army and cut down boughs of the trees in Birnam Wood to use as camouflage

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Summarise Act 5 Scene 5

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Macbeth continues to stand his ground against the siege and reflects on the pointless nature of life after he is told Lady Macbeth is dead

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Summarise Act 5 Scene 6

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Malcom’s army have arrived outside the castly and reveal themselves-malcom talks through the battle plan

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Summarise Act 5 Scene 7

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Macbeth declares that he will fight but is reassured by the prophecy that he cannot be defeated by anyone born of a woman-young Siward challenges Macbeth and Macbeth kills him

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Summarise Act 5 Scene 8

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Macduff fights Macbeth and kills him(c-section is revealed)

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Summarise Act 5 Scene 9

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Malcom is hailed by Macduff as new king of Scotland and honours those who have fought alongside him.

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What are some Witches quotes from act 1?

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  • ‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’
  • ‘I’ll drain him dry as hay’
  • ‘Imperfect spealers
  • ‘Make my seated heart knock at my ribs’
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What are some Macbeth quotes from act 1?

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  • ‘brave Macbeth’
  • ‘O valiant cousin, worthy gentlemen’
  • ‘Disdaining Fortune, with his brandish’d steel, which smok’d with bloody execution
  • ‘Like Valour’s minion carv’d out his passage
  • Unseam’d him from the nave to th’chaps
  • ‘What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won’
  • ‘So foul and fair a day I have not seen’
  • ‘Why do you dress me in borrow’s robes?’
  • ‘If chance may have me king, why chance may crown me without my stir.’
  • ‘Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires’
  • ‘I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself’
  • ‘I dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more is none.
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What are some Duncan quotes from act 1?

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  • ‘There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.’
  • ‘I have begun to plant thee and will labour to make thee full of growing.’
  • ‘His virtues plead loke angels, trumpet tongu’d’
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What are some Lady Macbeth quotes from act 1?

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  • ‘My dearest partner in greatness’
  • I fear thy nature is too full o’th’milk of human kindness
  • ‘Art not without ambition but without the illness should attend it’
  • ‘Pour my spirits in thine ear’
  • ‘Under my battlements’
  • ‘Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here’
  • ‘Fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty
  • ‘Come to my woman’s breasts and take my milk for gall you murdering ministers’
  • ‘Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t
  • ‘Screw your courage to the sticking place and we’ll not fail
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What are some Macbeth quotes from act 2?

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  • ‘Is this a dagger that I see before me, the handle towards my hand?’
  • ‘A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-opressed brain
  • ‘This is a sorry sight’
  • ‘Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep.’
  • ‘Ha:they pluck out mine eyes’
  • ‘Will all of great Neptines ocean wash this plood clean from my hand?’
  • ‘Amen stuck in my throat
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What are some Lady Macbeth quotes from act 2?

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  • ‘My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white’
  • ‘A little water clears us of this deed’
  • ‘Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil’
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What are some Lennox/Macduff quotes from act 2?

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  • ‘Some say the earth was feverous and did shake’
  • ‘O horror, horror, horror’
  • ‘Most sacrilegious murder
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What is a Donaldbain quote in act 2?

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  • ‘Where we are, There’s daggers in men’s smiles’
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What are some Old man/Ross quotes in Act 2?

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  • ‘A falcon tow-ring in her pride of place Was by a mousing owl kawk’d and kill’d’
  • ‘Tis said, they eat each other
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What are some Banquo quotes act 3?

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  • ‘I fear Thou playd’st most foully for’t’
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What are some Macbeth quotes in act 3?

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  • ‘To be thus is nothing, But thus be safely thus’
  • ‘We have scorch’d the snake, not kill’d it’
  • ‘Oh full of scorpions is my mind dear wife’
  • ‘I am cabin’d, cribb’d, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears’
  • ‘It will have blood they say: blood will have blood.’
  • ‘I am in blood Stepp’d in so far that should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er
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What are some Lady Macbeth quotes from Act 3?

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  • ‘Are you a man?’
  • ‘What’s done is done’
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What is a Lennox quote from act 3?

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  • Our suffering country under a hand accurs’d
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What are some Macbeth quotes from act 4?

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  • ‘How now, you secret black and midnight hags!’
  • ‘I conjure you’
  • ‘Thy crown does sear mine eyeballs’
  • ‘This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues’
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What are the 3 Apparitions?

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An armed head, a bloody child and a child crowned with a tree in his hand

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What are some Macduff quotes from act 4?

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  • ‘He is noble, wise, judicious’
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What is a quote about the country in act 4?

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  • ‘Alas poor country, almost afraid to know itself. It cannot be call’d out mother but our grave’
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What are some Malcom quotes in act 4?

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  • ‘Blunt not the heart, enrage it’
  • ‘Macbeth is ripe for shaking’
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What are some Lady Macbeth quotes in act 5?

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  • ‘Out damned spot! Out I say’
  • ‘Hell is murky’
  • ‘Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?’
  • ‘Will these hands ne’er be clean’
  • ‘All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O.’
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What are some Macbeth quotes in Act 5?

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  • ‘tyrant
  • ‘his title Hang loose around him, like a giants robe upon a dwarfish thief’
  • ‘Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear’
  • ‘Beard to beard and beat them backward home’
  • ‘I have almost forgot the taste of fears’
  • ‘Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day’
  • ‘Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stake and then is heard no more.’
  • ‘It is a tale told by an idiot , full of sound and fury signifying nothing’
  • ‘Ring the alarum bell! Blow wind, come wrack; at least we’ll die with harness on our back.’
  • ‘Lay on Macduff, And damn’e be him that first cries, ‘Hold enough!’
  • ‘Dead butcher and fiend-like queen’

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