Macbeth Quotes - Act 2 Scene 4

Question 1

Light/dark motif

Answer 1

“By the clock ‘tis day and yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp”

Question 2

Unnatural

Answer 2

“A falcon towering in her pride of place, was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed”
“ ‘Tis said they ate each other”

Question 3

Sons flee

Answer 3

“Malcolm and Donalbain, the King’s two sons are stolen away and fled; which puts them in suspicion of the deed”

Question 4

Irony

Answer 4

“Thriftless ambition”

Question 5

Macbeth’s crowning

Answer 5

“The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth”
“He is already named and gone to Scone to be invested”

Question 6

Macduff’s distrust

Answer 6

“Will you to Scone” “No cousin I’ll to Fife”
“Well may you see things well done there: adieu lest our old robes sit easier than our new”