Macbeth Quotes A1 S3

Question 1

Macbeth hasn’t seen such a ‘bad but good’ day.

Answer 1

So foul and fair a day I have not seen

Question 2

Banquo asks about the weird sisters what they are

Answer 2

Live you, or are you aught

That man may question?

Question 3

Banquo states that he is decideved by the witches’ gender through their supernatural powers

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Prophecies to Macbeth (3)

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

Prophecies for Banquo (3)

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Duncan’s messenger gets sent to Macbeth to Promote him (this was after witches’ prophecy)

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Macbeth’s aside about the Witches’ prophecies and his ambition to become king is beginning to grow

Answer 7

Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor:

The greatest is behind

Question 8

Macbeth’s aside on the witches’ prophecies on how they haven’t lied to him but he’s conscious that the devil isn’t good to follow either.

Answer 8

This supernatural soliciting

Cannot be ill, cannot be good

Question 9

Macbeth’s ambitions to become king is becoming more greater, more stronger.

Answer 9

If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me without my stir