Macbeth 2

Question 1

Macbeth - beginning
Ambition + courage
Ambition 1

Answer 1

‘Brandished steel smoked with bloody execution’ (A1S2 Macbeth’s courage)
‘Unseamed him from the nave to the chops’ (A1S2 skill in battle)
‘Vaulting ambition’ (A1S7 fatal flaw revealed)
‘Stars hide your fires’
‘What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won’

Question 2

Macbeth - middle
Troubled + guilt

Answer 2

‘Is this a dagger?’ (A2S1 phantasmagoria)
‘A dagger of the mind, a false creation’ (A2S1 troubled)
‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?’ (A2S2 guilt)
‘O full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!’

Question 3

Macbeth - end
Shift in confidence

Answer 3

‘The heart I bear shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear’ (A5S3 boasting)
‘I have almost forgot the taste of fears’
‘Life’s but a walking shadow… signifying nothing’ (A5S5 hopelessness)

Question 4

Lady Macbeth - beginning
Supernatural 1
Ambition 2

Answer 4

‘Unsex me here… make thick my blood… take my milk for gall’ (A1S5 devotion to supernatural forces)
‘Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell’ (A1S5 preparing for murder)

Question 5

Lady Macbeth - end
Troubled + guilt
Fear 1

Answer 5

‘Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t’ (A2S2 remorse)
‘Out, damned spot; out, I say’ (A5S1 phantasmagoria)
‘What will these hands ne’er be clean?’
‘Hell is murky’ (A5S1 troubled)

Question 6

Witches - beginning
Supernatural 2

Answer 6

‘When shall we three meet again?
In thunder lightning or in rain?’ (A1S1 weather imagery + rhyme)
‘All hail Macbeth! That shalt be king hereafter!’ (A1S3 prophecy)
‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none’ (A1S3 Banquo’s prophecy)

Question 7

Witches - middle
Evil

Answer 7

‘By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes’ (A4S1 about Macbeth)
‘Double double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble’ (A4S1 magic)

Question 8

Witches - end
Apparitions
Deceptive

Answer 8

‘Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff’ (A4S1 first apparition)
‘None of woman born shall harm Macbeth’ (A4S1 bloody child)
‘Be lion-mettled, proud and take no care’ (A4S1 confidence)

Question 9

Banquo - beginning
Supportive + loyal

Answer 9

‘The instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray’s in deepest consequence’ (A1S3 about the witches)
‘My noble partner’ (A1S3 loyalty)

Question 10

Banquo - middle
Suspicion
Fear 2

Answer 10

‘I fear thou played’st most foully’ (A3S1 suspicion)
‘Fly, good Fleance! Fly, fly, fly!’ (A3S3 death)

Question 11

Banquo - end
Supernatural 3
Fear 3

Answer 11

‘That which might appal the devil’ (A3S4 ghost)
‘Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold’ (A3S4 phantasmagoria, guilt)

Question 12

Macduff - beginning
Reveals Duncan’s death

Answer 12

‘O horror, horror, horror!’ (A2S3 discovers Duncan’s body)
‘Most sacrilegious murder’ (A2S3 regicide)

Question 13

Macduff - middle
Shocked + vengeful + grief

Answer 13

‘What, all my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop?’ (A4S3)
‘Gentle heavens, cut short all intermission… within my sword’s length set him’ (A4S3 revenge)

Question 14

Macduff - end
Heroic

Answer 14

‘Macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped’
‘None of woman born shall harm Macbeth’
‘I have no words. My voice is in my sword’ (A5S8)
‘Enter Macduff with Macbeth’s head’ (A5S8 stage directions)

Question 15

Duncan - beginning
Trusting + loyal

Answer 15

‘He was a gentleman on whom I’d built an absolute trust’ (A1S4 trusts Thane of Cawdor)
‘Let me infold thee and hold thee to my heart’ (A1S4 irony)
‘Fair and noble hostess, we are your guest tonight’ (A1S6 to LM)
‘What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won’

Question 16

Duncan - end
Natural unrest from his death

Answer 16

‘The night has been unruly… lamentings heard i’ th’ air, strange screams of death’ (A2S3 natural unrest)
‘His silver skin laced with his golden blood’ (A2S3 Divine Right)
‘His gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature’ (A2S3 religion)

Question 17

Power - beginning
Macbeth 1

Answer 17

‘If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me without my stir’
‘Stars hide your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires’
‘Brandished steel smoked with bloody execution’
‘We have scorched the snake, not killed it’

Question 18

Lady Macbeth - middle
Manipulative
Power 2

Answer 18

‘Look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t’
‘My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white’
‘Too full o’th’milk of human kindness’

Question 19

Power - end
Banquo’s ghost

Answer 19

‘O treachery’
‘Ghost of Banquo sits in Macbeth’s place’
‘Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold’
‘That which might appal the devil’