macbeth prompts & quotes

Question 1

initial presentation (7)

Answer 1

• “brave Macbeth”
• “Belladonna’s bridegroom”
• “stars hide your fires/ let not heaven see my black and deep desires”
• “unseamed him from the nave to th’ chops”
• “stay you imperfect speakers, tell me more. Speak, I charge you”
• “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, only vaulting ambition”
• “horrible imaginings”

Question 2

hamartia (6)

Answer 2

• “stay you imperfect speaker tell me more. Speak, I charge you”
• “stars hide your fires/let not heaven see my black and deep desires”
• “I have to spur to prick the sides of my intent, only vaulting ambition”
• “seize upon Fife: give to the edge of th’ sword his wife his babes and all the unfortunate souls”
• “thou oppos’d being of no women born, yet I will try the last”
• “if chance may have me king, why chance may crown me”

Question 3

women (6)

Answer 3

• “pour mine spirits in thine ear”
• “unsex me here”
• “are you a man?”
• “then you were a man. Be so much more the man”
• “look like a flower, but be the serpent under’t”
• “Out damned spot! Out, I say!”

Question 4

evil - origins (4)

Answer 4

• “pour mine spirits in thine ear”
• “are you a man?”
• “then you were a man. Be so much more the man”
• “look like a flower, but be the serpent under’t”

Question 5

evil - escalating/effects (8)

Answer 5

• “I go and it is done”
• “I am in blood stepp’d so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er”
• “could all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”
• “tis said they eat each other”
• “seize upon Fife: give to the edge o’ the sword his wife his babes and all the unfortunate souls”
  “O, full of scorpions is my mind”
• “wherefore could I not pronounce Amen?”
• “sleep no more: Macbeth doth murder sleep, the innocent sleep”

Question 6

Banquo (2)

Answer 6

• “the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray’s in deepest consequence”
• “or have we eaten the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?”

Question 7

Macduff (2)

Answer 7

• “this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen”
• “front to front, bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself, within my sword’s length”