Macbeth Qotes

Question 1

“When the hurly-burly’s done’,’when the battles lost and won’

Answer 1

Second witch

Question 2

Third witch

Answer 2

‘When the battles lost and won’

Question 3

Third witch

Answer 3

‘There to meet with Macbeth’

Question 4

Paradox-alliteration-opposite

Answer 4

“Fair is foul and foul is fair”

Question 5

2nd that is is mentioned-he deserves the praise

Answer 5

‘brave MacBeth – well he deserves that name’

Question 6

Describing him killing his enemys from bottom to top

Answer 6

‘Till he unseam’d him from the nave to th’chaps
And fixed his head upon our battlements’ (Captain)

Question 7

What someone has lost,the other has gained

Answer 7

What he hath lost, noble MacBeth hath won’ (Duncan)

Question 8

To give him the good news which grants macbeth more power

Answer 8

‘Go pronounce his present death
And with his former title greet MacBeth’

Question 9

To carve out something so he can progress. Servant for honour and dignity

Answer 9

Like Valour’s minion carv’d out his passage’ (Captain)

Question 10

Very sarcastic joking sentance by the captain about macbeths power and eveyones fear

Answer 10

‘Yes, as sparrows, eagles, or the hare, the lion’

Question 11

Macbeths first lines,good and bad

Answer 11

So foul and fair a day I have not seen’ (MacBeth)


Question 12

Alive,i may question

Answer 12

Live you, or are you aught
That man may question?

Question 13

Banquo questioning her woman hood and physical features

Answer 13

you should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret


Question 14

Aside,macbeths honours but getting better

Answer 14

Aside) ‘Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor:
The greatest is behind’ (MacBeth)


Question 15

Prince of…. he must fall or he over leaps

Answer 15

Aside) ‘The Prince of Cumberland: that is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap’ (Macbeth)