Macbeth final revision

Question 1

Gender

Answer 1

Macbeth’s insecurities
Malcolm and Macduff
the power of women

Question 2

the witches

Answer 2

supernatural
fate
Lady Macbeth

Question 3

fate and free will

Answer 3

original encounter with the witches
prophecies
soliloquies

Question 4

kingship

Answer 4

Duncan
Macbeth
death
Malcolm

Question 5

Lady Macbeth

Answer 5

subverts her femininity
power over her husband
harbinger of Macbeth’s downfall

Question 6

appearance vs reality

Answer 6

witches
fueled by Lady Macbeth
Macbeth

Question 7

ambition

Answer 7

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
downfall and motifs
Banquo

Question 8

guilt

Answer 8

immediately after Duncan’s death
hallucinations
Macbeth as tragic hero

Question 9

supernatural

Answer 9

Macbeth
Banquo
Lady Macbeth

Question 10

the Macduffs

Answer 10

paternal figure
patriotism
Lady Macduff

Question 11

Macbeth’s insecurity surrounding manhood (3)

Answer 11

prithee peace
I had else been perfect
whole as the marble, founded as the rock

Question 12

Malcolm and Macduff manhood (3)

Answer 12

cistern of lust
all my pretty ones? did you say all?
dispute it like a man
first I must feel it like a man

Question 13

women and gender (3)

Answer 13

may pour spirits in ear
unsex me here
breaking his enterprise

Question 14

supernatural in the opening scene (1)

Answer 14

when shall we three meet again?

Question 15

witches and fate (2)

Answer 15

spins the thread of life

yet it shall be tempest lost

Question 16

Lady Macbeth and the supernatural (2)

Answer 16

unsex me here

take my milk for gall

Question 17

the witches and fate (2)

Answer 17

when shall we three meet again, in thunder, lightning or in rain?
so foul and fair a day I have not seen

Question 18

prophecies and choice (3)

Answer 18

happy prologues to the swelling act
shalt be king hereafter
shall harm Macbeth

Question 19

soliloquies and choice (3)

Answer 19

if chance will have me king why chance may crown me without my stir
bond of fate
the equivocation of the fiend

Question 20

Duncan and kingship (3)

Answer 20

signs of nobleness like stars shall shine
I have begun to plant thee and labour to make thee full of growing
there’s no art to find the mind’s construction on the face

Question 21

Macbeth and kingship (2)

Answer 21

those he commands move only in command

upon my head they place a fruitless crown

Question 22

death and kingship (4)

Answer 22

some say the earth was feverous
dark night strangles the travelling lamp
strangles, entomb, living
hell-hound

Question 23

Malcolm and kingship

Answer 23

a good and virtuous man may recoil

it weeps, it bleeds and each day a new gash

Question 24

Lady Macbeth and femininity (4)

Answer 24

unsex me here
take my milk for gall
dash the brains out // birth strangled babe
make thick my blood…passage to remorse

Question 25

Lady Macbeth emasculates Macbeth (2)

Answer 25

look like the innocent flower

are you a man

Question 26

Lady Macbeth’s weak ending (3)

Answer 26

out damned spot
a little water clears us of this deed
she should have died hereafter

Question 27

unseen poetry 5 questions

Answer 27

question
tone and title
language and sound patterns
form and structure
engaging with the theme