Macbeth Last Minute Blurting Quotes

Question 1

Macbeth does not want to kill Duncan

Answer 1

• “I have bought Golden Opinions”
• “We will no longer proceed in this business”
• “I am his Kinsman” “His host”
• “His virtues plead like angels”
• “We still have judgement”
• “Bloody instructions, which being taught return to plague th’inventor”
• “of our poisoned chalice to our own lips”
• “Pity like a newborn babe”

Question 2

Macbeth wants to kill Duncan

Answer 2

• “With his surcease, success”
• “Whiles I threat, he lives”
• “Fatal vision”
• “Vaulting ambition”
• “The wolf”

Question 3

Macbeth as violent

Answer 3

• “dudgeon gouts of blood”
• “The wolf”
• “Come, let me clutch thee”
• “Tarquin”

Question 4

Macbeth as brave and noble

Answer 4

• “O worthiest cousin”
• “Noble Macbeth”
• “Like valour’s minion”
• “I will not yield”

Question 5

Appearance vs Reality (light imagery too)

Answer 5

• “Let light not see my darkest and deepest desires”
• “Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark”
• “Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t”
• “AND MAKE OUT FACES VIZARDS TO OUR HEARTS”
• Roles have reversed

Question 6

Lady Macbeth being cruel

Answer 6

• “Art thou a man”
• “Was the hope drunk wherein he dressed himself”
• “When you durst do it, then you were a man”
• “I shame to wear a heart so white”
• “Live a coward”
• “From his time, such I account thy love”
• “Sit” “Speak not” “Go at once” “Are you a man” - imperative verbs, controlling

Question 7

She is disillusioned

Answer 7

“Without content”

“Dwell in doubtful joy”

Question 8

Shouldnt dwell on the past

Answer 8

“What is done is done”

Question 9

Guilt

Answer 9

“Will all great neptune’s oceans wash this blood clean from my hands? no”

“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand” - cannot get rid of the blood stains and guilt

“Out damn spot”

“Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more”

Question 10

Banquo being a foil to macbeth

Answer 10

“Fly fleance fly fly fly”

“neither beg nor fear your favours”

“Our captains macbeth and banquo” Started off in the same place

Question 11

Banquo to macbeth at the beginning

Answer 11

“Why do you start”

“Royal hope that seems rapt withal”

Question 12

Macbeth’s tyrannical rule

Answer 12

“A hand accursed” Lennox

“Something wicked this way comes” Witches

“Tyrant, whos sole name blister’s out tongue” Malcom

“Hell hound” Macduff

“Dead butcher” Macduff

Question 13

Poetics of Aristotle

Answer 13

In Poetics of Aristotle, a fall from grace typically incited pity and fear for the audience

Question 14

Heckety’s speech showing Macbeth is not fully evil

Answer 14

“A wayward son, spiteful and wrathful, who as others do, loves for his own ends, not for you” - He’s not truly evil, structured by Shakespeare to allow the audience to still pity Macbeth (A3S5)

Question 15

Women in Jacobean audience

Answer 15

Mens properties
Weak
Were expected to be obedient to their husbands

Question 16

LM’s soliloquy A1S5

Answer 16

Supernatural imagery

• “Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts”
• “Murdring ministers”
• “Smoke of hell”
• “Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark”

Question 17

Shakespeare is a protofeminist

Answer 17

Perhaps showing that women can be strong through LM

Question 18

Macbeth fears banquo

Answer 18

“He hath wisdom that doth guide his valour” - Doesnt like Banquos goodness. Perhaps evil and good cannot live together

Question 19

Macduff as a foil to macbeth

Answer 19

• Sacrificed everything for the rightful heir to the throne to restore peace and equilibrium in the country. FAMILY AND CASTLE
• Makes correct actions and choices a king should make
• “Bleed, bleed poor country”
• “O Scotland scotland”
• Repetition shows how he loves his country, like a GOOD KING, UNLIKE MACBETH
• “heaven” - Macduff is heavenly like with God, macbeth is hell like with the devil
• They are both quite similar, both noble, brave and do not surrender to fate. But both have different intentions. FATE.