Macbeth Act 1 Scene 2-3

Question 1

Rhyming couplet promote macbeth kill thane of cawdor

Answer 1

8. ‘Go pronounce his present death
   And with his former title greet MacBeth’ (Duncan)

Question 2

Battle lost and one but about macbeth and thane of cawdor

Answer 2

9. ‘What he hath lost, noble MacBeth hath won’ (Duncan)

Question 3

First line by macbeth foul and fair

Answer 3

1. ‘So foul and fair a day I have not seen’ (MacBeth)

Question 4

Are you alive or made up

Answer 4

2. ‘Live you, or are you aught
   That man may question?’ (Banquo)

Question 5

Should be female but facail hair makes me think not

Answer 5

3. ‘you should be women,
   And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
   That you are so’ (Banquo)

Question 6

3 prophecies for macbeth all hail

Answer 6

4. ‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis.’
   ‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor.’
   ‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, that shalt be king hereafter.’ (Witches)

Question 7

Banquos prophecies less but more

Answer 7

5. ‘Lesser than MacBeth, and greater.’
   ‘Not so happy, yet much happier.’
   ‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.’ (Witches)

Question 8

Mabeth presented with new position

Answer 8

6. ‘He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor’ (Ross)

Question 9

Macbeth sees prophecy two already done

Answer 9

7. (Aside) ‘Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor:
   The greatest is behind’ (MacBeth)

Question 10

What witches said wasnt for good

Answer 10

8. (Aside) ‘This supernatural soliciting
   Cannot be ill, cannot be good’ (MacBeth)

Question 11

Macbeth might not have to act on king to get position

Answer 11

9. ‘If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me
   Without my stir’ (MacBeth)