Macbeth Quotes

Question 1

Act 1 scene 3

“So foul and fair a day u have not seen”

Answer 1

• similar words to what the witches said at the beginning

* Macbeth related to evil

Question 2

Act 1 scene 3
1st “All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis”
2nd “All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor”
3rd “All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter”

Answer 2

• summing up the story without making the audience realise

* earlier Duncan already said Macbeth would be Thane of Cawdor so audience trusts the witches

Question 3

Act 1 scene 3

Banquo “good sir, why do you start and seem to fear”

Answer 3

• implying Macbeth is afraid of the witches

* he only speaks to the witches firmly with power and force

Question 4

Act 1 scene 3

Ll 102 - 107

Answer 4

• dramatic irony

* Macbeth is modest ‘why do you dress me in borrowed robes?’

Question 5

Act 1 scene 4

“Let not light see my black and deep desires”

Answer 5

• thinking about treason and murder
• obsession with murder
• pretend and deceive like the serpent lady M says to be

Question 6

Act 1 scene 7

“If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well it were done quickly”

Answer 6

• contemplating murder
• arguing with himself
• finding more negatives than positives to the plan

Question 7

Act 1 scene 7

“We will proceed no further in this business”

Answer 7

• made his decision
• he is Duncan’s kinsman
• Duncan is a good man
• he is Duncan’s host

Question 8

Act 1 scene 7

“False face must hide what the false heart doth know”

Answer 8

• same principal as the serpent and flower

* Lady M manipulated Macbeth and got into his head

Question 9

Act 2 scene 1
Banquo “I dreamed last night of the three weïrd sisters”
Macbeth “I think not of them”

Answer 9

• Banquo might of had evil thoughts
• dramatic irony
• all Macbeth thinks about - evil
• decietful - applying the serpent and flower idea

Question 10

Act 2 scene 1

“Is this a dagger I see before me”

Answer 10

• state of mind based of evil
• dark hallucinations
• macbeths thinking about his fate
• trickery and witchery

Question 11

Act 2 scene 2

Ll 16 - 24

Answer 11

• lady m and Macbeth on edge with each other
• conversation is short and snappy
• Macbeth unnerved ‘there’s one did laugh in’s sleep and one cried murder’
• lady m is agitated with M ‘go get some water and wash this filthy witness…’

Question 12

Act 2 scene 3

“This is the door”

Answer 12

• afraid of the door
• still a weak man
• frightened of the body

Question 13

Act 2 scene 3

“That I did kill them”

Answer 13

• so involved with serpent and flower act that doesn’t realise what he says leads to suspicion
• lady M faints to distract the suspicions

Question 14

Act 3 scene 1

Ll 19 - 41

Answer 14

• wants to find out where banquo will be

* still being decietful

Question 15

Act 3 scene 1
Macbeths soliloquy Ll 49 - 73
“our fears in Banquo stick deep…”

Answer 15

• Macbeth is threatened
• feels challenged
• wants his children to be kings

Question 16

Act 3 scene 4

“But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined”

Answer 16

• Hard sounds that lock us in
• macbeth is oppressed in the brain
• claustrophobic to the murder - in to deep

Question 17

Act 3 scene 4
“It will have blood they say: blood will have blood”
“I am in blood”

Answer 17

• obsessed with blood
• overwhelmed
• in too deep
• lying in a river of blood

Question 18

Act 4 scene 1

“How now you secret black and midnight hags”

Answer 18

• storms in and isn’t afraid
• but first encounter he feared them
• doesn’t show any fear “answer me” he is very demanding
• he shows his authority as he is king

Question 19

Act 4 scene 1

“Had I three ears I’d hear the”

Answer 19

• mocks the second apparition
• bully
• second apparition calls Macbeth three times
• tries to joke with the witches

Question 20

Act 4 scene 1

“Whate’er thou art for thy good caution thanks”

Answer 20

• grateful to first apparition
• no fear
• gratitude

Question 21

Act 4 scene 1

“Then live Macduff what need I fear of thee?”

Answer 21

• not showing his worries on the outside
• hard strong man
• clear of what he has to do
• at beginning was indecisive about the task

Question 22

Act 4 scene 1

“But yet I’ll make assurance double sure…”

Answer 22

• tries to hide the possibility of Macduff killing him

Question 23

Act 4 scene 1

“What is this”

Answer 23

• third apparition as child with crown holding branches
• worried about what this shows
• mistakenly shows his fear

Question 24

Act 4 scene 1

“Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo. Down!”

Answer 24

• nightmares return
• his fears will never vanquish
• no matter how hard he tries to hide them

Question 25

Act 4 scene 1

“The very firstlings of my heart shall be // the firstlings of my hand”

Answer 25

• when he was thinking about killing Duncan thought about benefits and costs
• now doesn’t think about it
• obsessed with murder
• not bothered about the consequences
• Macbeth is very cynical

Question 26

“Canst thou not minister to a mind diseases, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow”

Answer 26

• this in some ways refers to both Lady M and M

* M is mentally ill