Macbeth

Question 1

Macbeth presented as tragic hero x 2

Answer 1

Brave Macbeth

O valiant cousin

Question 2

M has second thoughts about killing king

Answer 2

We will proceed no further in this business

Question 3

M starts to lose control of his mind (even before the murder)

Answer 3

Is this a dagger that I see before me? … art thou not, fatal vision

Question 4

M breaks the GCOB

Answer 4

Cannot speak the word ‘Amen’

Question 5

M theme of sleep x 4

Answer 5

M does murder sleep

Glamis has murder’d sleep

M shall sleep no more

Thick coming fantasies

Question 6

M pretends to lament the king x 2

Answer 6

Grace is dead

There’s nothing serious in morality

Question 7

Fleance escapes from the murderers

Answer 7

Then comes my fit again: I had else been

perfect; whole as the marble, firm as the rock

Question 8

M when he is considering murdering the king

Answer 8

Stars hide your fires; let not light see my

black and deep desires

Question 9

LM tries to persuade M to kill Duncan

Answer 9

Too full’o the milk of human kindness

Question 10

Surface vs reality, LM to M

Answer 10

Look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t

Question 11

LM tries to reassure herself and M after the murder

Answer 11

A little water clears us of this deed

Question 12

LM mental state has deteriorated

Answer 12

Out damned spot - out I say

Question 13

LM mental state - juxtaposition to her reassurance earlier in play

Answer 13

What, will my hands ne’er be clean

Question 14

LM is haunted by the past

Answer 14

What’s done cannot be undone