Macbeth Quotes

Question 1

Macbeths reaction to the witches prophecies:

Answer 1

“This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good”

Question 2

Lady Macbeth questioning Macbeths manliness:

Answer 2

“When you durst do it, then you were a man”

Question 3

Suspicious of Banquo

Answer 3

“Our fears in Banquo sticks deep”

Question 4

Reaction to Lady Macbeths death

Answer 4

“She would have died hereafter”

Question 5

Reaction to Malcolm being announced as heir to the throne

Answer 5

“Stars hide your fires! “

Question 6

Cannot sleep

Answer 6

“Glamis hath murdered sleep” “Macbeth shall sleep no more”

Question 7

Ghost of Banquo haunts him

Answer 7

“Thou canst not say I did it”

Question 8

Beginning- brave and noble character

Answer 8

“Brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name”

Question 9

Decides he may as well carry on his evil

Answer 9

“I am in blood stepped in so far”

Question 10

To fulfill his:

Answer 10

“Vaulting ambition”

Question 11

Lady Macbeth tells her husband to:

Answer 11

“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t”

Question 12

Tells his wife to: (paranoia)

Answer 12

“Be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck”

Question 13

Coldness

Answer 13

“I have almost forgot the taste of fears”

Question 14

thinking about murdering Duncan creates a:

Answer 14

“horrid image”

Question 15

uncertain whether to take the prophecies into his own hands or to see how it plans out:

Answer 15

“shakes so my single state of man”

Question 16

Macduff describes Macbeth at the end of the play as a:

Answer 16

“dead butcher”

Question 17

going against his nature to commit the murder:

Answer 17

“bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat”

Question 18

decides that if the prophecies say he will be king, he will act upon it:

Answer 18

“if chance will have me king, he himself resolves”

Question 19

the witches tell Macbeth that he cannot be killed by a:

Answer 19

“man that’s of woman born”

Question 20

thinking about the deed he has committed:

Answer 20

“to know my deed ‘twere best not know myself”

Question 21

reflection on what his life has become:

Answer 21

“all is but toys”

Question 22

no longer has his own respect:

Answer 22

“renown and graces are dead”

Question 23

is appalled to realise that he cannot say:

Answer 23

“amen”

Question 24

Lady Macbeth fears that her husband does not have the:

Answer 24

“illness that should attend on it”

Question 25

macbeth as a brutal soldier on the battlefield:

Answer 25

“unseamed him from the naive to the chops”

Question 26

Macbeth’s sword was:

Answer 26

“smoked with bloody execution”

Question 27

Lady Macbeth says she would have killed Duncan if he didn’t look like her father:

Answer 27

“had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t”

Question 28

Lady Macbeth’s manipulation if Macbeth:

Answer 28

“dash’d the brains out had I sworn to do so”

Question 29

Macbeth’s deep admiration for his wife:

Answer 29

“bring forth men children only”

Question 30

Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth not to worry about the murder:

Answer 30

“consider it not so deeply”

Question 31

Macbeth tells his wife to :

Answer 31

“be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck”

Question 32

Lady Macbeth’s sleep walking:

Answer 32

“out damned spot” “all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”

Question 33

dagger halluscination:

Answer 33

“is this a dagger I see before me”

Question 34

the witches are:

Answer 34

“instruments of darkness”

Question 35

in a world where:

Answer 35

“fair is foul and foul is fair”

Question 36

the witches tell Macbeth that he will be:

Answer 36

“king hereafter”

Question 37

reflection on what his life has become after his evil deeds:

Answer 37

“life’s but a walking shadow”
“brief candle”

Question 38

macbeth’s mind is:

Answer 38

“full of scorpions”

Question 39

Macbeth says he has no reason to kill Duncan:

Answer 39

“I have no spur to prick the side of my intent”

Question 40

Macbeth says he will fight on despite his realisation about the prophecy:

Answer 40

“I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked”

Question 41

the witches tell Macbeth until: he will be safe

Answer 41

“Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him”

Question 42

hates the thought of Banquo’s descendants being king:

Answer 42

“thy crown does sear mine eyeballs”

Question 43

speaking to the dagger:

Answer 43

“thou marshall’st me the way that I was going”

Question 44

a falcon is killed by an owl (unnatural)

Answer 44

“a falcon towering in her pride of place, was by a mousing owl hawked and killed”