Macbeth Quotations

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Weather sets a scary scene, symbolises the witches evil, up to no good.

Scary eary scene

Question 2

Fair is foul and foul is fair

Answer 2

It’s switched over

Foul- bad

Fair- good

Question 3

For brave Macbeth— well he deserves that name

Answer 3

Brave- strong, fearless, courageous, unstoppable

Deserves- works hard, worthy, earned

Question 4

Which smoked with bloody execution

Answer 4

No mercy
Used lots
Covered in blood
Fast against enemy’s

Question 5

Till he unseamed him from the nave to th’ chops

Answer 5

Gruesome

Metaphor

Shows he is strong

Question 6

So foul and fair a day I have not seen

Answer 6

Macbeth

Echo switches earlier linking them together

Question 7

Withered and wild

Answer 7

Describes witches as outcasts

Question 8

Stay you imperfect speakers

Answer 8

Witches

Macbeth wants to know more. He is eager to know his future

Question 9

The instruments of darkness tell us truths

Answer 9

Banquo

The witches prediction was true

Metaphor

Question 10

O worthiest cousin

Answer 10

Duncan

Question 11

My worthy Cawdor

Answer 11

Duncan

Question 12

Noble Banquo

Answer 12

Duncan

Question 13

Let not light see my black and deep desires

Answer 13

Macbeth

Deep desires- ambitious to become king

Let not light- don’t let god see

Question 14

All hail

Answer 14

Repetition

Predicting future

Showing honour

Question 15

Weird sisters

Answer 15

About the witches

Odd, out of place, abnormal, different

Question 16

My dearest father of greatness

Answer 16

My- personal possession, claiming her

Dearest- close, precious, irreplaceable

Partner- together, equal

Greatnesses amazing, incredible, fantastic

Question 17

Thy nature. It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness

Answer 17

Breast milk, women trait, lady Macbeth is saying Macbeth is too weak to get what he wants. She is calling him a woman

Question 18

Ambition

Answer 18

She is proud of his ambition because she can’t do it without him

She wants to become queen

Question 19

Hi thee hither, that I may, pour my spirits in thine ear

Answer 19

Come here- she wants to help him do what he must do

She wants to convince him to murder king Duncan

Question 20

Unsex me here

Answer 20

Strip me of my feminine qualities, make me more like a man so I can kill Duncan

Question 21

Look like that innocent flower, but be the serpent under it

Answer 21

On the outside look nice, but on the inside your a horrible person

Lady Macbeth convincing him to kill the king

Question 22

Our honoured hostess

Answer 22

Respected

Question 23

Fair and noble hostess

Answer 23

Fair- good

Noble- brave, linking to Macbeth- ideal women

Question 24

We love him highly, and shall continue our graces towards him

Answer 24

Duncan thinks Macbeth is good/trustworthy and they will continue to honour him

Question 25

If we should fail

Answer 25

He is asking lady Macbeth for help/guidance Rhetorical question because he’s worried if he fails he will be executed

Question 26

But screw your courage to the sticking place and we’ll not fail

Answer 26

Stand strong, don’t be afraid and everything will be ok Imagery Metaphor

Question 27

What cannot you and I perform upon the unguarded Ducan

Answer 27

She believes they are unstoppable together She tries to make it sound easy so that he can do it and he can gain power easterly and quickly

Question 28

Bring fourth men-children only

Answer 28

Macbeth believes lady Macbeth is too masculine to give birth to female children because she is strong and fierce

Question 29

False face must hide what the false heart doth know

Answer 29

They need to fake their feelings, hide their emotions

Question 30

Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?

Answer 30

Rhetorical question Links to the idea of killing Duncan- he is hallucinating He thinks it’s a sign to kill Duncan (fate)

Question 31

Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I’d had done’t

Answer 31

Duncan looks like her father so couldn’t kill him

Question 32

Glam is hath murdered sleep and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more: Macbeth shall sleep no more

Answer 32

He won’t be able to sleep because he feels so guilty

Question 33

Go get some water, and wash this filthy witness from your hands

Answer 33

Clean your hands to hide the evidence Blood links him to murder

Question 34

Most sacrilegious murder The lords anointed temple

Answer 34

Regicide

Question 35

Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis as all the wayward women promised and I fear thou play’dst most foully for ‘t

Answer 35

Banquo knows Macbeth did something wrong to get what he wanted/the titles

Question 36

There is none but he whose being I do fear

Answer 36

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Question 37

Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown

Answer 37

Can’t have kids

Question 38

Banquo, thy souls flight, if it find Heaven, must find out tonight

Answer 38

If your soul is going to make it to heaven His fate will be decided (heaven or hell)tonight He’s going to die tonight

Question 39

Macbeth Macbeth Macbeth! beware Macduff,beware the thane of fife

Answer 39

A floating head warns Macbeth to be aware of Macduff, Macbeth says that he has already guessed as much This is foreshadowing Macduff killing Macbeth

Question 40

Macbeth is told to be bloody bold resolute: laugh to scorn the power of man for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth

Answer 40

No one who is born naturally can kill Macbeth

Question 41

Macbeth shall never vanquished be until great birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him

Answer 41

Macbeth is informed that he will be safe until Birnam wood moves to Dunsinane hill

Question 42

Something wicked this Way comes

Answer 42

Shows Macbeth has changed from brave/honourable to evil/corrupt

Question 43

Out damned spot, out I say

Answer 43

She has got imaginary blood on her hands-she has gone mad

Question 44

The thane of fife had a wife, where is she now

Answer 44

Macduff’s wife is dead

Question 45

What will these hands never be clean?

Answer 45

She can never wash the guilt away

Question 46

Here’s the smell of the blood with all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand

Answer 46

She is smelling blood from the guilt

Question 47

I tell you yet again, Banquos buried: he cannot come out one’s grave? what’s done,cannot be undone

Answer 47

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Question 48

Bring me no more reports let them fly all: till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane, I cannot taint with fear

Answer 48

Because of the apparition he’s not afraid that he will be defeated because Birnam wood has yet to move

Question 49

What is the boy Malcolm? Was he not born of woman? The spirits that know all mortal consequences have pronounced me thus: fear not Macbeth no man that’s born of woman shall ever have power upon thee

Answer 49

He believes he has the power to survive he is confident that no one will kill him

Question 50

Let every soldier hew him down a bough and bear ‘t before him

Answer 50

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