Macbeth Quotes Act 1 Scene 7 - Act 2 Scene 2

Question 1

Macbeth saying that the murder should be done quickly

Answer 1

If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well

It were done quickly’ (Macbeth)

Question 2

Killing Duncan will return and plague him back

Answer 2

we but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor’ (Macbeth)

Question 3

Chalice - poison- lips

Answer 3

‘our poison’d chalice

To our own lips’ (Macbeth)

Question 4

Macbeth explaining he shouldn’t kill Duncan as his role is to protect him

Answer 4

‘He’s here in double trust;
First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
Who should against his murderer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself’ (Macbeth)

Question 5

Macbeth only wants to vault over his ambitions and not fail

Answer 5

‘I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself
And falls on the other.’ (Macbeth)

Question 6

Macbeth being indecisive with killing Duncan and not talking about his ‘business’

Answer 6

‘We will proceed no further in this business’ (Macbeth)

Question 7

Lady Macbeth - asking if his hope is drunk

Answer 7

‘Was the hope drunk

Wherein you dress’d yourself?’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 8

Macbeth does everything to be a man but not over the top

Answer 8

‘I dare do all that may become a man;

Who dares do more is none.’ (Macbeth)

Question 9

Lady Macbeth challenging Macbeths manhood explaining that when he promised he would do the deed back then he was a man

Answer 9

‘When you durst do it, then you were a man;
And, to be more than what you were, you would
Be so much more the man.’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 10

Lady Macbeth saying she would kill a baby for Macbeth to be king.

Answer 10

‘I have given suck, and know
How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 11

Lady Macbeth saying that they wont fail

Answer 11

‘If we should fail?’ (Macbeth)
‘We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we’ll not fail’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 12

Macbeth being decisive that he will do the deed

Answer 12

‘I am settled, and bend up
Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.
Away, and mock the time with fairest show:
False face must hide what the false heart doth know’ (Macbeth)

Question 13

Macbeth sees a dagger

Answer 13

‘Is this a dagger which I see before me,

The handle toward my hand?’ (Macbeth)

Question 14

A bell rings to summon Macbeth to kill Duncan

Answer 14

A bell rings
‘I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.’ (Macbeth)

Question 15

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

Answer 15

‘Had he not resembled

My father as he slept, I had done’t.’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 16

Macbeth -blessing stuck in throat

Answer 16

‘I had most need of blessing, and ‘Amen’

Stuck in my throat.’ (Macbeth)

Question 17

Macbeth will sleep no more as its murderous

Answer 17

‘Sleep no more!

Macbeth does murder sleep’ (Macbeth)

Question 18

Macbeth will not sleep anymore

Answer 18

‘Macbeth shall sleep no more.’ (Macbeth)

Question 19

Macbeth and his guilt will never be washed away from his hands.

Answer 19

‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood

Clean from my hand?’ (Macbeth)

Question 20

Lady Macbeth saying that she has the exact same guilt as Macbeth however shes not being a coward about it.

Answer 20

‘My hands are of your colour; but I shame

To wear a heart so white.’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 21

Macbeth- knocking- waking Duncan

Answer 21

Knocking within

‘Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!’ (Macbeth)