Macbeth Act1 Quotes

Question 1

Scene1-

“Meet again?”

Answer 1

First Witch:
“When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”

Question 2

Scene 1-

Witch chant

Answer 2

“Fair is foul and foul is fair,

Hover through the fog and filthy air,”

Question 3

Scene2:

How does Captain refer to Macbeth

Answer 3

“For brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name,”

Question 4

Scene 2-

What did the Captain say Macbeth did to Macdonwald?

Answer 4

“Unsealed him from the nave to th’chops,

And fixed his head upon our battlements,”

Question 5

Scene2:

What compliment does Ross give to Macbeth about his warriorship?

Answer 5

Calls him “Bellona’s Bridegroom”

Roman goddess of war

Question 6

Scene 2:

Irony in Kind Duncan’s decision for macbeth’s prize

Answer 6

“No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive,
Our bosom interest. Go pronounce his present death,
And with his former title greet Macbeth.”

Question 7

Scene 2:

Statement of Macbeth’s prize

Answer 7

King Duncan

“What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won,”

Question 8

Scene 3:

Macbeth’s statement about day

Answer 8

“so fair and foul a day I have not seen,”

Question 9

Scene 3:

Banquo saying the witches don’t belong on the earth:

Answer 9

“That look not like th’inhabitants of th’earth

And yet are on’t?”

Question 10

Scene 3:

Banquo debating if the witches are women

Answer 10

“You should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so,”

Question 11

Scene 3:

Witch’s Prophecy chant for Macbeth

Answer 11

“All hail Macbeth! Hail to the, Thane of Glamis!
All hail Macbeth! Hail to the, Thane of Cawdor!
All hail Macbeth! That shalt be King hereafter!”

Question 12

Scene 3:

Banquo saying Macbeth is interested, Banquo is not

Answer 12

“That he seems rapt withal: to me you speak not”

Question 13

Scene 3:

3rd Witch tells Banquo royalty prophecy

Answer 13

“Thou shalt get Kings though thou be none,”

Question 14

Scene 3:

Macbeth asks them to stay

Answer 14

“Stay you imperfect speakers!”

Question 15

Scene 3:

Mb asking why the witches say he’s Thane of Cawdor

Answer 15

“The Thane of Cawdor lives; why do you dress me in borrowed robes?”

Question 16

Scene 3:

Banquo warning Mb about witches’ intentions

Answer 16

“And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s
In deepest consequences,”

Question 17

Scene 3:

Macbeth convincing himself the witches must be telling the truth

Answer 17

“Two truths are told,
As happy prologues to the swelling act,
Of the imperial theme,”

Question 18

Scene 3:

Macbeth’s reaction to s own intentions

Answer 18

“If good, why do I yield to that suggestion
Whose horrid image doth unfit my hair
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs
Against the use of nature?”

Question 19

Scene 3:

Macbeth mentions murder

Answer 19

“My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,”

Question 20

Scene 3:

Macbeth lies to Banquo about what he was thinking about

Answer 20

“My dull brain was wrought

With things forgotten,”

Question 21

Scene 5:

Lady Macbeth says to let her guide the night

Answer 21

“You shall put

This night’s great business into my dispatch,”

Question 22

Scene7:

Macbeth gives two reasons for King Duncan to trust him

Answer 22

“He’s here in double trust,
First, as I am his kinsman and his subject-
Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
Who should against the murderer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself,”

Question 23

Scene 7:

Macbeth realises his tragic flaw

Answer 23

“I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself
And falls on the other,”

Question 24

Scene 7:

Macbeth tells lady that he’s backed out on the plan

Answer 24

“We will proceed no further in this business,”

Question 25

Scene 7:

Lady Macbeth calls him stupid

Answer 25

“Was the hope drunk Wherein you dressed yourself?”

Question 26

Scene 7:

Lady Mb states her loyalty to macbeth’s word

Answer 26

“I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dashed the brains out, had I sworn as you
Have done to this,”

Question 27

Scene 7:

Lady Macbeth appeals to Mb’s male bravado

Answer 27

“To be more than what you were,

You would be so much more the man,”

Question 28

Scene 7:

Lady Mb convinces me they’ll not fail

Answer 28

“But screw your courage to the sticking place and we will not fail,”

Question 29

Scene 7:

Macbeth figures he has a choice in his decision

Answer 29

“I am settled”

Question 30

Scene 7:

Last line Macbeth, deception

Answer 30

“False face must hide what the false heart doth know,”