Macbeth

Question 1

Quotes from Macbeth relating to Masculinity

Answer 1

‘Like Valour’s Minion carved out his passage till he faced the slave’
‘When you durst do it, then you were a man’
‘As cannons overcharged with double cracks’
‘You would be so much more the man’
‘I fear thy nature is too full o’th the milk of human kindness’
‘Art not without Ambition but without the illness should attend it’

Question 2

What is something in Act 1 Scene 2 that shows Macbeth holds status?

Answer 2

We hear of Macbeth before he enters the scene

Question 3

Macbeth quotes on Gender

Answer 3

‘Under my battlements’
‘They met me in the day of succession’ (Lady Macbeths first lines are not her own)
‘Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil’
‘That I may pour thine spirits into thine ear and chastise with the valour of my tongue’
‘My dearest partner of greatness’ vs ‘dear wife’
‘Say to the king I would attend his leisure’
‘Unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty’

Question 4

Macbeth quotes on Guilt

Answer 4

‘All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand’
‘O, full of scorpions is my mind dear wife’
‘The thane of Fife had a wife where so she now’
‘Thou canst not say I did it, never shake thy gory locks at me’
‘Sleep no more: Macbeth does murder sleep’

Question 5

Macbeth quotes on Ambition

Answer 5

‘I am in blood stepped in so far that should I wade no more…’
‘Stars hide your fires! Let not light see my black and dark desires’
‘To be thus is nothing but to be safely thus’
‘The prince of Cumberland of Cumberland that is a step on which I must fall down or else overleap’
‘Vaulting ambition which overleaps itself and falls on th’ other’

Question 6

Macbeth Kingship Quotes

Answer 6

‘Go pronounce his present death and with his former title greet Macbeth’
‘Hath bourn his faculties so meek, hath been so clear in his great office’
‘Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown and put a barren sceptre in my gripe’
‘By th’clock tis day. And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp’
Macbeth referred to as ‘hell hound’ and ‘dead butcher and his fiend like queen’
‘Bleed, bleed poor country’
‘It weeps it bleeds and each new day a new gash is added to her wounds’