Macbeth quotes for characters or motifs

Question 1

How is Macbeth is described in Act 1 Scene 2?

Answer 1

‘Brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name’ Captain

‘What he (Thane of Cawdor) hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.’ Duncan

Question 2

How is fair and foul motif shown in Act 1?

Answer 2

‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air’ Witches
‘so fair and foul a day I have not seen’ Macbeth

Question 3

How is Macbeth is shown as weak by Lady Macbeth?

Answer 3

‘Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness’ Act 1 Scene 5
‘When you durst do it, then you were a man’ Act 1 Scene 7

Question 4

How does Lady Macbeth lose her femininity in Act 1 Scene 5?

Answer 4

‘Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here’
‘Come to my woman’s breasts And take my milk for gall,’

Question 5

How is Macbeth shown as turning evil in Act 2 Scene 1?

Answer 5

‘Art thou but A dagger of the mind’

‘Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain’d sleep’

Question 6

How is Macbeth shown as weakening in Act 2 Scene 2?

Answer 6

‘Glamis doth murder sleep therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more’
‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?’

Question 7

How does Lady Macbeth react to blood at the start of the play?

Answer 7

‘Make thick my blood’ Act 1 Scene 5

‘A little water clears us of this deed’ Act 2 Scene 2

Question 8

How is nature shown as murdered in Act 2?

Answer 8

‘Some say the Earth Was feverous and did shake’ Lennox, Act 2 Scene 3
‘And Duncan’s horses…Turn’d wild in nature’ Ross, Act 2 Scene 4

Question 9

How is Macbeth shown as fearful of Banquo becoming king?

Answer 9

‘Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown’ Act 3 Scene 1
‘We have scorched the snake, not kill’d it’ Act 3 Scene 2
‘Oh, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!’ Act 3 Scene 2

Question 10

How is the darkness motif shown at the start of the play?

Answer 10

‘The instruments of darkness tell us truths’ Banquo, Act 1 Scene 3
‘Enter BANQUO, and FLEANCE with a torch’ Stage Directions, Act 3 Scene 3

Question 11

How is Macbeth shown as fearful and mentally week in Act 3 Scene 4?

Answer 11

‘Hence, horrible shadow’
‘It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood’
‘We are yet but young in deed.’

Question 12

How is Macbeth shown as becoming more tyrannical when he sees a threat to his reign in Act 4 Scene 1?

Answer 12

‘The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.’
‘give to th’ edge o’ th’ sword’

Question 13

How is Lady Macduff shown as betrayed and furious at Macduff leaving her in Act 4 Scene 2?

Answer 13

‘Everyone that does so is a traitor, and must be hanged’

‘the poor wren, The most diminutive of birds’

Question 14

How is Macduff shown as greatly hurt and desperate to get his country back in Act 4 Scene 3?

Answer 14

‘Bleed, bleed, poor country! Great tyranny!’ Macduff
‘He has no children. All my pretty ones?’ Macduff
‘It cannot be call’d our mother, but our grave,’ Ross

Question 15

How is Lady Macbeth shown as greatly weakened in Act 5 Scene 1?

Answer 15

‘Enter LADY MACBETH, with a taper’ Stage Directions
‘Out, damned spot! Out, I say!’ Lady Macbeth
‘All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.’ Lady Macbeth

Question 16

How is Macbeth shown as hated in Act 5 Scene 2?

Answer 16

‘Revenges burn in them’ Menteith

‘His secret murders sticking on his hands.’ Angus

Question 17

How is Macbeth shown as used to violence and death in Act 5?

Answer 17

‘I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack’d’ Scene 3

‘Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow’ Scene 5

Question 18

How is Macbeth shown as fearful and broken down in Act 5 Scene 3?

Answer 18

‘Give me my armour’

‘Throw physic to the dogs’

Question 19

How is Macbeth shown as greatly hated in Act 5?

Answer 19

‘Tyrant, show thy face!’ Act 5 Scene 7

‘This dead butcher and his fiend-like queen’ Act 5 Scene 9

Question 20

How is Macbeth shown to have ambition?

Answer 20

“Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself, And falls on th’other”, “To plague th’inventor”, “poison’d chalice” Act 1 Scene 7 Macbeth