Macbeth

Question 1

Courage + Reckless Bravery

Answer 1

‘With his brandished steel, which smoked with bloody execution’
‘He unseamed him from the have to th’ chops’
‘Valiant cousin, worthy gentlemen’

Question 2

Quick + Decisive

Lacks patience

Answer 2

Quick to put fate in his own hands
‘If good, why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs? Present fears are less than horrible imaginings’

Question 3

Sense of Loyalty

Answer 3

‘Duncan hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been so clear in his great office’

Question 4

Moral

Answer 4

‘Will all great Neptune’s pcean wash this blood clean from my hand?’

Question 5

Morally corrupt

Answer 5

'’Tis better thee without than he within’
Contrasts with
‘Will all great Neptune’s …..

Question 6

Ruthless

Answer 6

‘I am in blood stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go’er’

Question 7

Dishonourable

Answer 7

Duncan - ‘gracious’
Edward the Confessor - ‘holy king’
Macbeth - ‘devil’ and ‘tyrant’

Question 8

Defiant / disillusioned

Answer 8

‘The mind I sway by and the hear I bear shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear’

Question 9

Macbeth’s Character

Answer 9

Courage + reckless bravery
Quick and decisive
Moral
Sense of Loyalty

Question 10

Macbeth’s transition

Answer 10

Dishonourable
Defiant / disillusioned
Ruthless
Morally corrupt