Macbeth nature motifs

Question 1

“If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me,”

Answer 1

Banquo to the witches

Question 2

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

Answer 2

The witches

Question 3

“I have begun to plant thee, and will labour To make thee full of growing.”

Answer 3

Duncan to Macbeth

Question 4

“There if I grow, The harvest is your own.”

Answer 4

Banquo to Duncan

Question 5

“Now o’er the one halfworld Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain’d sleep;”

Answer 5

Macbeth talking about the night

Question 6

“Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,”

Answer 6

Macbeth on the night of the murder

Question 7

“dark night strangles the travelling lamp: Is’t night’s predominance, or the day’s shame,”

Answer 7

Ross talking about the eclipse

Question 8

“his gash’d stabs look’d like a breach in nature For ruin’s wasteful entrance:”

Answer 8

Macbeth talking about the murder

Question 9

“’Tis said they eat each other.”

Answer 9

Old man talking about Duncan’s horses

Question 10

“Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,”

Answer 10

Macbeth after being crowned