Macbeth quotes

Question 1

Macbeth’s reaction to the supernatural

Answer 1

‘wrapt withal’

Question 2

Supernatural- Macbeth’s visions

Answer 2

‘Is this a dagger which I see before me’

Question 3

Supernatural- Lady Macbeth’s intimacy with it

Answer 3

‘Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts’

Question 4

Supernatural- Macbeth’s fear of the supernatural

Answer 4

‘Never shake Thy gory locks at me’

Question 5

Supernatural- is it good or bad?

Answer 5

‘This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good’

Question 6

Power- the idea is put into Macbeth’s head

Answer 6

‘All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter’

Question 7

Power- Macbeth goes power mad

Answer 7

‘Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck’

Question 8

Ambition begins in Macbeth to be King

Answer 8

‘Two truths are told As happy prologues to the swelling act Of th’imperial theme’

Question 9

Ambition- Macbeth has it but not the action for it

Answer 9

‘Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it’

Question 10

Ambition- Macbeth’s final ambition to kill the King

Answer 10

‘Stars, hide your fires, Let not light see my black and deep desires’

Question 11

Kingship- Duncan is portrayed as the rightful king

Answer 11

‘his virtues Will plead like angels’

Question 12

Kingship- things go out of wack when Duncan is killed

Answer 12

‘Turned wild in nature, broke their stalls’

Question 13

Kingship- Macbeth abuses his power as king and is unkind to servants

Answer 13

‘The devil damn thee black’

Question 14

Macbeth- kind and thoughful

Answer 14

‘Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full of the milk of human kindness’

Question 15

Macbeth fears punishment- is aware of his wrongdoing

Answer 15

‘Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague th’inventor: this even-handed justice’

Question 16

Macbeth- loses all fear

Answer 16

‘Til Birnam Wood remove to Dunsinane I cannot taint with fear’

Question 17

Lady Macbeth- wishes to manipulate Macbeth

Answer 17

‘That I may pour my spirits in thine ear And chastise with the valour of my tongue’

Question 18

Lady Macbeth- guilt

Answer 18

‘Out, damned spot; out, I say’

Question 19

Witches- shown to be different to people

Answer 19

‘You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so’

Question 20

Banquo- shows awareness of the evil of the witches

Answer 20

‘to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths’

Question 21

Banquo is suspicious of Macbeth

Answer 21

‘I fear Thou played’st most foully for ‘t’

Question 22

Macduff sees Macbeth as a tyrant

Answer 22

‘Tyrant, show thy face!’

Question 23

Macduff- sees Lady Macbeth as a gender stereotype

Answer 23

‘Tis not for you to hear what I speak’

Question 24

Macduff- sees the King as sacred

Answer 24

‘The Lord’s anointed temple and stole thence’

Question 25

Macduff shown as heroic

Answer 25

‘I have no words: my voice is in my sword’

Question 26

King Duncan- trusting

Answer 26

‘valiant cousin, worthy gentleman’

Question 27

King Duncan- easily decieved

Answer 27

‘There’s no art to fund the mind’s construction in the face’

Question 28

Duncan- image of innocence

Answer 28

‘naked new-born babe’

Question 29

Duncan’s divinity

Answer 29

‘Silver skin lac’d with his golden blood’

Question 30

Gender- LM wishing to change gender (men stronger than women)

Answer 30

‘unsex me here’

Question 31

Gender- LM is too masculine

Answer 31

‘Bring forth men-children only’

Question 32

Gender- LM uses it to chastise Macbeth

Answer 32

‘then you were a man’

Question 33

Gender- LM presented not maternal

Answer 33

‘I would…. have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out’

Question 34

Violence- LM reflects on the murder

Answer 34

‘Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?’

Question 35

Violence- shown even in Macduff and the cesarean

Answer 35

‘Macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped’

Question 36

Violence- all Macbeth thinks about

Answer 36

‘My slaughterous thoughts’

Question 37

Violence- at first Macbeth can’t cope with it

Answer 37

‘I’m afraid to think what I have done’

Question 38

Violence- Macbeth feels haunted by it

Answer 38

‘Will all great Neptune’s oceans wash this blood clean from my hands?’

Question 39

Violence leads to more violence

Answer 39

‘Blood will have blood’

Question 40

Violence- Macbeth no longer fears it and carries out more murders

Answer 40

‘Your wife and babes savagely slaughtered’

Question 41

Guilt- Macbeth becomes paranoid

Answer 41

‘How is’t with me, when every noise appals me’

Question 42

Tragedy- Macbeth going to kill the King

Answer 42

‘I go, and it is done. The Bell invites me’

Question 43

Macbeth realises he is in too deep

Answer 43

‘We have scotch’d the snake not kill’d it’

Question 44

LM shows first signs of weakness (and act)

Answer 44

Act 3 Scene 2

‘safer to be what which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy’

Question 45

Macbeth acting as king

Answer 45

‘You know your own degrees’

Question 46

Macbeth refers to Banquo as a serpent

Answer 46

‘There the grown serpent lies’

Question 47

People realise Macbeth is unstable

Answer 47

‘his highness is not well’

Question 48

LM doesn’t have the control she did before

Answer 48

‘Sit, worthy friends’

Question 49

Macbeth feels trapped

Answer 49

‘I am cabin’d, cribb’d, confin’d’