Macbeth Exam Flashcards
flash cards to study for the Macbeth exam
Duncan’s youngest son; flees to Ireland
Donaldbain
“[Life] is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury / Signifying nothing’’
Macbeth
Son of Banquo who narrowly escaped being murdered
Fleance
The king whose murder ignites a series of bloody and unfortunate events
Duncan
Woman who, before her murder, accuses her husband of being a traitor.
Lady Macduff
Duncan’s named heir
Malcolm
He will never be king, but will be the father of kings
Banquo
The weird sisters who hover through the “fog and filthy air”
The witches
“Out, damned stop! out, I say! one, two. Why, then, ‘tis time to do’t Hell is murky!”
Lady Macbeth
The man who is NOT born of a woman
Macduff
The goddess of witchcraft, who helps the three witches work their mischief on Macbeth.
Hecate
A trio of ghosts summoned by the three witches in order to warn Macbeth of his impending doom.
an armed head, a bloody child, and finally a child crowned, with a tree in his hand.
Siward’s son who joins him on the battlefield at Dunsinane he encounters Macbeth during the fight, and despite his attempts to bring his enemy down, Macbeth ultimately kills him.
Young Siward
At the beginning of the play, what two nations are at war?
Scotland and Norway
Before Macbeth makes his first appearance in the play, what does the audience learn about him?
He is a very powerful, brave soldier.
In Act 1, Scene 3, what astonishing news does Ross bring Macbeth
The king named Macbeth “Thane of Cawdor”
In Act 1, Scene 5, Lady Macbeth learns of her husband’s prophecy, but says, “Yet I do fear thy nature; it is t too full of the milk of human kindness’’ What is she worried about?
Macbeth is too kind to go through with it and murder Duncan.
What is Lady Macbeth’s plan for murdering Duncan
Get the guards drunk, and sneak into Duncan’s room to kill him.
In Act 1, Scene 7, what reasons does Macbeth give for considering to spare Duncan’s life.
Macbeth is Duncan’s kings man, subject and host.
Why does Lady Macbeth refuse to kill Duncan
He looks just like her dad
In Act 2, Scene 1, Macbeth remarks, “Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight?.. I see thee yet, in form as palpable as this which now I draw.” what is the “fatal vision” he refers to?
The dagger he only sees
How does Macbeth change after the murder of Duncan
Macbeth becomes more resolved and ruthless
The morning after Duncan’s murder, Lennox comments about unusual natural events that occurred the night before. What does theses events foreshadow?
Duncan’s death.
In Act 3, Scene 4, Macbeth is hosting a banquet when a murderer returns to report the results of the ambush against Banquo and Fleance. In response Macbeth says, “The worm that’s fled hath nature that in time will venom breed no teeth for the present” What does this mean?
This refers to the snake (Banquo) who is dead because Fleance is the worm.
Why is the murder of Macduff’s child-aged son so significant?
viewed as a symbol of the youthful innocence Macbeth hates and fears.
In Act 5, Scene 1, what is the “damned spot” to which Lady Macbeth refers?
The blood she thinks that’s on her hands
By Act V, what do Angus and the other Scottish nobles notice about Macbeth?
Macbeth’s royal title is too big for him
What does Lady Macbeth indicate in this passage? “Hie thee hither/That I may pour my spirits in thine ear;/And chastise with the valor of my tongue/All that impedes thee from the golden round.”
This means that Lady Macbeth hopes that she can persuade Macbeth into seeing her plan by talking to him and seducing him.
What does Macbeth mean in the following passage? “Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown./And put a barren specter in my gripe.”
expressing his fear that he will not produce an heir to the throne.
What are the predictions given by the apparitions in Act 5
The first and second apparitions told Macbeth to ‘‘beware Macduff’’ but that ‘‘none of woman born shall harm Macbeth. ‘’ The third apparition says that Macbeth will never be ‘‘vanquished . . . until Great Birnam wood’’ moves to Dunsinane, Macbeth’s castle.
Who becomes king of Scotland at the end of the play?
Malcolm
Who was “from his mothers womb, untimely ripped.”
Macduff
the beginning of the play, what does Lady Macbeth think about Macbeth’s ambition?
Macbeth’s lack of ambition. She says that he is ‘too full of the milk of kindness’, and that he would be too inclined to be good.
Who develops the plan of “look like the innocent flower. But be the serpent under’t’’
Lady Macbeth
Identify the following speakers
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“My hands are of your color; but I shame/To wear a heart so white….A little water clears us of this deed.”’
Lady Macbeth
Why does Macbeth want to kill Fleance (banquo’s son)
Because the witches fortune could come true for Banquo. Paranoia.
“The prince of Cumberland! That is a step/On which I must fall down, or else o’leap.”
Macbeth
At the end of the play how does Lady Macbeth indicate her decline
through her sleepwalking, her getting “ill”. Mental state.
At the end of the play, how does the army fighting Macbeth conceal themselves?
cut down and carry a bough from the Wood
At the end of the play, how does Lady Macbeth most likely die?
Suicide
How does Macbeth die?
by the sword at the hands of Macduff
“O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!”
Lady Macbeth
“Come, you spirits/That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,/ And fill me from the crown to the toe-top/Of direst cruelty!”
Lady Macbeth
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”
Macbeth
“There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.”’
Duncan
“Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,/As the weird woman promised, and, I fear,/Thou play’dst most foully fort.”
Banquo
“Tyrant, show thy face! If thou beest slain, and with no stroke of mine,/ My wife and children’s ghost will haunt me still.”
Macduff
“This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tounges,/Was once thought honest: you have loved him well./He hath not touch’d you yet. I am young; but something/You may deserve of him though me, and wisdom/To offer up a weak poor innocent lamb/ To appease an angry god.”
Macolm
