Macbeth Quotes A1 S2

Question 1

Macheth being called brave by a brave captain

Answer 1

brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name

Question 2

Macbeth being compared to a God and slashing to his target with ease.

Answer 2

Like Valour’s minion carv’d out his passage

Question 3

Macbeth cuts the Thane of Glamous from his belly button up to his jaw and puts the Thane of Glamous’s head on for display for treason.

Answer 3

Till he unseam’d him from the nave to th’chaps

And fixed his head upon our battlements

Question 4

Does this not scare you, our captains, Macbeth and Banquo? The Norwegian army shows up to the battlefield for the Thane.

Answer 4

Dismay’d not this our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?

Question 5

Ironic exaggerative words used to describe Macbeth and Banquo’s bravery to the Norwegian army.

Answer 5

Yes, as sparrows, eagles, or the hare, the lion

Question 6

Macbeth being linked with Christ, as Golgotha is the place where Jesus died.

Answer 6

meant to bathe in reeking wounds

Or memorise another Golgotha

Question 7

Roman God - Bellona -. Macbeth linked with Roman God.

Answer 7

Bellona’s bridegroom

Question 8

Macbeth being promoted. Rhyming couplet on Death and Macbeth foreshadowing his death.

Answer 8

Go pronounce his present death

And with his former title great MacBeth

Question 9

Lost and won linked with the witches. Noble Macbeth being called by the most Noblest (a king).

Answer 9

What he hath lost, noble MacBeth hath won