Macbeth Quotes

Question 1

Hurly burly, battle W&L

Answer 1

When the hurly-burly’s done,
When the battle’s lost and won’ (Second Witch)

Question 2

To meet M

Answer 2

.‘There to meet with MacBeth’ (Third Witch)

Question 3

F is F oxymoron

Answer 3

‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair’

Question 4

Brave macbeth

Answer 4

‘brave MacBeth – well he deserves that name’ (Captain)

Question 5

….Valour’s minion………

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Nave to chaps

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Dismayed not …………

Answer 7

‘Dismay’d not this our captains, MacBeth and Banquo?’ (Duncan)

Question 8

Sparrows , eagles or hare the lion

Answer 8

Yes, as sparrows, eagles, or the hare, the lion’ (Captain)

Question 9

Jesus ref

Answer 9

meant to bathe in reeking wounds
Or memorise another Golgotha’ (Captain)

Question 10

Bravery’s husband

Answer 10

Bellona’s bridegroom’ (Captain)

Question 11

Kill Macdonald

Answer 11

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

Question 12

What he lost Macbeth won

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Paradox about the day, link to witches ( Macbeth )

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Describing the apperence of the witches as men like

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Witches predicting Macbeth’s future

Answer 15

‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis.’
‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor.’
‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, that shalt be king hereafter.’ (Witches)

Question 16

Banquo being greater but lesser than Macbeth and his future prediction

Answer 16

‘Lesser than MacBeth, and greater.’
‘Not so happy, yet much happier.’
‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.’ (Witches)

Question 17

Ross telling Macbeth about his new role

Answer 17

‘He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor’

Question 18

Macbeth’s aside/reflecting on the witches prophecy

Answer 18

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

Question 19

(Macbeth’s aside) questioning the witches prophecy

Answer 19

(Aside) ‘This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good’ (MacBeth)

Question 20

Macbeth thinking if he should be king it be done without his interference.

Answer 20

‘If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me
Without my stir’ (MacBeth)

Question 21

King calling Macbeth”…..” to show his value

Answer 21

‘worthiest cousin’ (Duncan)

Question 22

Macbeth paying respect to Duncan

Answer 22

‘The service and the loyalty I owe,
In doing it, pays itself’ (Macbeth)