Macbeth Quotes - Scene 1 Act 7

Question 1

Macbeth’s doubt

Answer 1

“Bloody instructions which being taught, return to plague th’inventer”
“We will proceed no further”

Question 2

Reasons not to kill him

Answer 2

“I am his kinsman and his subject”
“As his host, who should against the murderer shut the door, not bear the knife myself”
“Duncan hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been so clear in his great office, that his virtues will plead like angels”

Question 3

Hamartia

Answer 3

“I have no spur t prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other”

Question 4

Convincing Macbeth

Answer 4

“At what did it so freely? From this time such I account thy love”
“Screw your courage to the sticking plate”
“We’ll not fail”

Question 5

Lady Macbeth emasculates Macbeth

Answer 5

“When you durst do it, then you were a man”
“What can you and I preform upon th’unguarded Duncan

Question 6

Deceit

Answer 6

“False face must hide what the false heart doth know”