Macbeth

Question 1

“Of direst cruelty; make thick my blood, stop up th’acess and passage to remorse” -Lady Macbeth

Answer 1

Act 1 scene 5. Lady Macbeth doesn’t want to feel guilt anymore.

Question 2

“Th’assassination” -Macbeth

Answer 2

Act 1 scene 7. Macbeth tries to make the kings murder seem political and less horrific.

Question 3

“Bloody instructions, which being taught, return to plague th’inventor” -Macbeth

Answer 3

Act 1 scene 7. Shoes that Macbeth is going to suffer for what he has done.

Question 4

“Is this a dagger which I see before me” -Macbeth

Answer 4

Act 2 scene 1. Emphasis his insanity which is caused by his guilt.

Question 5

“I have done the deed” - Macbeth

Answer 5

Act 2 scene 2.

Question 6

“Sleep no more” -Macbeth

Answer 6

Act 2 scene 2. Lack of sleep shows insanity which is caused by guilt.

Question 7

“Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand” -lady Macbeth

Answer 7

Act 5 scene 1. Lady Macbeth is horrified by the physical details of the murder this shows she can’t escape her guilt.

Question 8

“The deep damnation of his taking off” -Macbeth

Answer 8

Act 1 scene 7. Realised that killing the king is a sin and will be punished by going to hell.

Question 9

“To bed, to bed; there’s a knocking at the gate. Come, come, come, give me your hand; what’s done cannot be undone” -Lady Macbeth

Answer 9

Act 5 scene 1. Sleep walking is a subtle punishment, repetition shows regret compares with “what’s done is done”

Question 10

“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No: this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incardine, making the green one red” -Macbeth

Answer 10

Act 2 scene 2. Metaphor shows he will never escape his guilt.

Question 11

“A little water clears us of this deed” -Lady Macbeth

Answer 11

Act 2 scene. Contrast with how Macbeth feels, she thinks there will be no consequences.

Question 12

“Upon my head they plac’d a fruitless crown and put a barren sceptre in my gripe” -Macbeth

Answer 12

Act 3 scene 1. Suggests Macbeth will be punished by not having children.

Question 13

“I have supp’d full with horrors: Direness familiar to my slaughterous thoughts cannot start me. Wherefore was that cry?” -Macbeth

Answer 13

Act 5 scene 5. Regicide and violence has punished him desensitising him, stripping him of emotions.

Question 14

“Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles” -Doctor

Answer 14

Act 5 scene 1. Key quote sums up Shakespeare’s message, regicide is unnatural and has unnatural punishments.

Question 15

“Things bad begun, make strong themselves by ill so prithee, go with me” -Macbeth

Answer 15

Act 3 scene 3. Evil is self perpetuating.

Question 16

“I could not say amen when they say God bless us” -Macbeth

Answer 16

Act 2 scene 2. Emphasis that it is a crime against God.

Question 17

“O, yet I do repent me of my fury that I did kill them” -Macbeth

Answer 17

Act 2 scene 3. He is trapped by his own crimes which means he had to kill again as punishment.

Question 18

“In the affliction of these terrible dreams that shake us nightly” -Macbeth

Answer 18

Act 3 scene 2. Sleep imagery punishment for his unnatural crimes.

Question 19

“The thane of fife had a wife. Where is she now? What, will these hands ne’er be clean” - Lady Macbeth

Answer 19

Act 5 scene 1. Super natural= punishment = insanity highlights the consequences of regicide.

Question 20

“Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep” -Macbeth

Answer 20

Act 2 scene 2. Can’t sleep as he is being punished for his disturbing nature.