Macbeth

Question 1

Witches Quotes

Answer 1

Fair is foul, and foul is fair, Hover through the fog an filthy air (Act 1, Scene i)
When the battle’s lost and won (Act 1, Scene i)
When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly’s done., When the battle’s lost and won (Act 1, Scene i)

Question 2

Captain Quote

Answer 2

For Brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name - Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valour’s minion carved out his passage (Act 1, Scene ii)

Question 3

Macbeth Quotes

Answer 3

So foul and fair a day I have not seen (Act 1, Scene iii)
If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me (Act 1, Scene iii)
Stars hide your fires let not light see my black and deep desires ((Act 1, Scene iv)

Question 4

Banquo Quote

Answer 4

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instuments of darkness tell us truths (Act 1, Scene iii)

Question 5

Malcolm Quotes

Answer 5

Nothing in his life became himlike the leaving it; he died as one that had been studied in his death to throw away the dearest thing he owed, as ‘t were a careless trifle (Act 1, Scene iv)

Question 6

Lady Macbeth Quotes

Answer 6

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness (Act 1, Scene v)
Look like the innocent flower, bt be the serpent under’t (Act 1, Scene v)
Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, un-sex me here And fill me from the crown to the toe topfull Of direst cruelty (Act 1, Scene v)

Question 7

Duncan Quotes

Answer 7

This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly reccomends itself Unto our gentle senses (Act 1, Scene vi)

Question 8

Macbeth Quotes

Answer 8

If it were done, when tis’ done, then ‘twere well it were done quickly (Act 1, Scene vii)
I have no spur To prick the side of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself And falls on th’other. (Act 1, Scene vii)
I dare do all that become a man; Who dares do more is none (Act 1, Scene vii)

Question 9

What is blood a symbol of?

Answer 9

A symbol of guilt and violence

Question 10

Features & symbols - What is the supernatural?

Answer 10

belief in witchcraft was widespread and Shakespeare uses prophecy, hallucinations, ghosts and magic to give the play a menacing, unnatural feel.

Question 11

Features & symbols - What is a oxymoron?

Answer 11

opposites and contradiction recur throughout the play

Question 12

Features & symbols - What is a monologue

Answer 12

A long speech by a single character

Question 13

Features & symbols - What is Dramatic irony

Answer 13

When the audience knows more than a character or characters do

Question 14

Features & symbols - what is a blank verse

Answer 14

non rhyming lines written in iambic pentameter (iam = a beat du duh; pent = five)

Question 15

Features & symbols - what is a soliloquy

Answer 15

where a character speaks their thoughts aloud to the audience

Question 16

What are the key themes Macbeth

Answer 16

Ambition - seen as a purely negative quality
Guilt - the play shows the terrible consequences of murdering a king
Kingship vs tyranny - Duncan and Macbeth embody the qualities of a good king and a tyrant respectively
Order vs chaos - Natural order is disrupted then re-established
Fate
Masculinity\Femininity