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Macbeth Flashcards

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Who says ‘fair is foul and foul is fair’?

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The witches

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Who do the witches plan to meet with?

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Macbeth

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‘Till he unseamed him from …… to ….’?

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Till he unseamed from the naves to th’chaps

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What did Macbeth and Banquo do with their swords against the foe?

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‘They doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe’

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What does Duncan say about Macbeth becoming the new Thane of Cawdor?

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‘What he (McDonald) hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won’

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What does Macbeth say about the day in act 1 scene 3?

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‘So fair and foul a day i have not seen’

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What do the witches say about Macbeth and the prophecies?

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‘All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis’
‘All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor’
‘All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter’

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What do the witches say about Banquo and his prophecies?

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‘Lesser than Macbeth and greater’
‘Not so happy, yet much happier’
‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none’

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Which quote shows Macbeth being demanding?

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‘Speak, I charge you’

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What does Macbeth say about the image of him killing Duncan?

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‘Whose horrid doth unfix my hair/ and make my seated heat knock at my ribs’ ‘This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good’

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In Act 1 Scene 4, what does Macbeth say about the Prince of Cumberland?

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‘Prince of Cumberland; that is a step/ on which I must fall down or else o’erleap/ for in my way it lies’

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What does King Duncan say about Macbeth at the end of Act 1 Scene 4?

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‘It is a peerless kinsman’

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Why does Lady Macbeth fear Macbeth’s nature?

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‘Yet do I fear thy nature./ It is too full o’th’milk of human kindness’

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What does Lady Macbeth say about how she would change Macbeth to help him become king?

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‘Hie thee hither/ that I may pour my spirits in thine ear/ and chastise thee with the valour of my tongue/ all that impedes thee from the golden round’

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What does Lady Macbeth say to the spirits in Act 1 Scene 5?

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‘Come you spirits/ that tend on mortal thoughts. Unsex me here/ and fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of / the direst cruelty’
‘Come to my woman’s breasts/ and take my milk for gall, you murd’ring minsters’

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What advice does Lady Macbeth give to Macbeth at the end of Act 1 Scene 5?

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‘Look like th’innocent flower/but be the serpent under’it’

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Complete the quote: ‘If th’assassination….’

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‘If th’assassination could trammel up the consequence and catch with his surcease, success’

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Complete the quote: ‘Upon this bank and….

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‘upon this bank and shoal of time/ we’d jump the life to come’

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Complete the quote: ‘As his host…’

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‘As his host/ who should against his murderer shut the door/ not bear the knife myself’

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Complete the quote: ‘His virtues/ will plead…’

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‘His virtues/ will plead like angels, trumpet tongued against the deep damnation of his taking off’

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Complete the quote: ‘Blow the horrid…’

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‘Blow the horrid deed in every eye/ that tears shall drown the wind’

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Complete the quote: ‘Vaulting ambition which….’

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‘Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself and falls on th’other’

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Complete the quote: ‘How tender ‘tis to love…’

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‘How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me; I would, while it was smiling in my face/ have plucked my nipple from it’s boneless gums and dashed the brains out’

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Complete the quote: ‘We fail?’

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‘We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place and we’ll not fail!

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Complete the quote: ‘False face…’

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‘False face must hide what false heart doth know’

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What quote tells us how much Banquo has been thinking about the witches?

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‘Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature/gives away in repose’

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In his hallucination, what does Macbeth ask about the dagger?

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‘Is this a dagger which I see before me/ the handle toward my hand’

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What does Macbeth say to Duncan at the end of his soliloquy in Act 2 Scene 1?

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‘Hear it Duncan, for it is a knell/ that summons thee to heaven or to hell’

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Why did Lady Macbeth not kill Duncan?’

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‘had he not resembled/ my father as he slept’

30
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What does Macbeth say about sleep?

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‘Macbeth shall sleep no more’ and ‘Macbeth does murder sleep’

31
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How does Macduff describe the murder of his father?

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‘Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee’

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Why does Macbeth fear Banquo?

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‘Our fears in Banquo/ stick deep and in his royalty of nature’

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What decision about Banquo does Macbeth come to at the end of Act 3 Scene 1?

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‘It is concluded, Banquo, thy souls flight/If it find heaven, must find out tonight’

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How does Lady Macbeth tell Macbeth to act?

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‘Be bright and jovial/ among your guests tonight’

35
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How does Macbeth’s mind feel?

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‘Oh full of scorpions is my mind dear wife’

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What does Banquo say to Fleance before he died?

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‘Fly good Fleance, fly fly fly!

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What does Macbeth say to Banquo’s ghost?

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‘Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold/ thou hast no speculation in those eyes which thou dost glare with’

38
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What does Lady Macbeth ask Macbeth in Act 3 Scene 4?

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‘Are you a man?’

39
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How does Macbeth describe his and Lady Macbeth’s career in crime?

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‘We are yet but young indeed’

40
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What does Lennox observe about Macbeth’s actions?

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‘Damed fact, how did it grieve Macbeth! Did he not straight/ in pious rage the 2 delinquents tear’

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What do the witches say about Macbeth in Act 4 Scene 1?

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‘Something wicked comes this way’

42
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What do the Apparitions tell Macbeth?

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‘Macbeth; Beware Macduff’
‘For none of woman born/ shall harm Macbeth’
‘Never vanquished be until/ Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane Hill’

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What quote shows Macbeth’s fearlessness towards the witches?

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‘Deny me this, and an eternal curse fall on you’

44
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What quotes show Macbeth’s tyranny affecting others?’

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‘Devilish Macbeth’ (Mal), ‘Untitled tyrant bloody-sceptred’

45
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What does Lady Macbeth say about her hand and Duncan?

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Hand-‘All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand’
Duncan- ‘Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him’

46
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What is Macbeth’s reaction to his wife’s death in Act 5 Scene 5?

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‘She would have died hereafter.’

47
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What does Macbeth say about life?

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‘Out, out brief candle/ life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage/ and then is heard no more.’

48
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What is Macbeth’s outlook to the battle?

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‘Blow wind, come wrack, at least we’ll die with harness on our back!’

49
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What do we learn about Macduff in Act 5 Scene 8?

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‘Macduff was from his mother’s womb, untimely ripped’

50
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How does Malcolm describe Macbeth and Lady Macbeth?

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‘This dead butcher and his fiend like queen’

51
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What quote suggests that order has been restored to Scotland?

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‘That calls upon us by the grace of Grace/ we will perform in measure time and place’

GCSE English Literature (3 decks)

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