Macbeth Rep

Question 1

1:2 captain
Macbeth Rep
First mention of MacBeth and his acclaimed reputation.

Answer 1

“For Brave MacBeth – well he deserves that name…”

Question 1

1:2 captain
Macbeth Rep
Impressive and powerful Soldier
Fierce and Merciless
The quote shows how ruthless Macbeth slaughters his opposition which is seen as a noble quality in the 1600’s
It can predict his nical behaviour later in the play, b y depicting his choice of ruthless slaughter to any opponent/threats

Answer 1

“Like valour’s minion carved out his passage/till he faced the slave, /till he unseamed him from the nave to th’chaps”

Question 2

1:2 Duncan
Macbeth Rep
Characterisation of MacBeth, viewers have no been introduced to him yet, and his representation is created by the views of his peers

Answer 2

“O valiant cousin, worthy gentlemen.”

Question 3

1:2 Captain
Macbeth Rep
Reference to MacBeth and Banquo as soldier.
Norwegians were scared

Answer 3

“As cannons overcharge with double cracks”

“Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds/ or memories another Golgotha.”

Question 4

1:2 Ross
Macbeth Rep
Mythological illusion – MacBeth was like her husband.

Answer 4

“Till that Bellona’s bridegroom, lapped in proof, / Confronted him with self-comparisons, / Point against point, rebellious arm ‘gainst arm.”

Question 5

1:2 Duncan
Macbeth
MacBeth will receive the title of thane of Cawdor.
The person with the title before his committed treason against the Scots and joined the Norwegians so the king gave MacBeth the title for his ‘noble’ actions through battle.

Answer 5

“No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive…and with his former title greet MacBeth”

Question 6

1:2 Duncan
Macbeth
MacBeth is a worthy soldier and won the battle for them.

Answer 6

“Noble MacBeth, hath won”

Question 7

1:3 Macbeth
Macbeth Rep
Physical reaction to the thought of killing duncs/regicide

Answer 7

“Two truths are told/ As happy prologues to the swelling act of the imperial scene”

Question 8

1:3 Macbeth
Macbeth Rep
Idea that he is thinking about killing Duncan, it makes his hair stand and heart race depicting a physical reaction and illuding to him being panicked by this thought.

Answer 8

“Why hath it given me earnest of success…if good why do I yield to that suggestion/ Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair/ and make my seated heart knock at my ribs”

Question 9

1:3 Macbeth
Macbeth Rep
Committing regicide will go against and upset the chain of beings. It was just a thought at this stage (fantastical-horrible to imagine), however, Macbeth doesn’t know who he is at this stage (shakes so my single state of man that function).

Answer 9

“Against the use of nature? Present fears/ Are less than horrible imaginings/ My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical/ Shakes so my single state of man that function.”

Question 10

1:4 Duncan
Macbeth rep
Speaking highly of Macbeth. Duncan owes Macbeth more than he can pay him – applauding his commitment to Scotland through his actions as a soldier.

Answer 10

“O worthiest cousins/ the sin of my ingratitude even now/ Was heavy on me…More thy due than more than all can pay.”

Question 11

1:4 Duncan
Macbeth rep
Get to see Duncan’s Kindness and Macbeth desires.
Setting Macbeth up for his career.
Let me bring you close to me and give you the benefit of my love.

Answer 11

“I have begun to plant thee and will labour/ To make thee full of growing/… Let me enfold thee/ and hold thee to my heart.”

Question 12

1:4 Macbeth
Macbeth
Macbeth is starting his machinations – latent desire
Malcom is now the next appointed king, Macbeth must either step over him or give up at the desire of becoming king.
Poniente moment in his change in desires.

Answer 12

“The prince of Cumberland: that is a step/ On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap/ For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires/ Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

“For in my way it lies” - to becoming king.
“Black and deep desires” - people cannot see the terrible desire that lays within him (ambition)

Question 13

1:5 Macbeth
Macbeth Rep
He is getting a lot of praise by Duncan for his appointment as thane of Cawdor and his actions in war.
Basically saying we are not to kill him we will not follow through with this plan.

Answer 13

“We will proceed no further in this business/ He hath honoured me of late, and I have bought/ Golden options.”

Question 14

2:1 Macbeth
Macbeth rep
Hallucinations – people can hallucinate from fear. He imagines killing with a bloody knife – it’s a figment of his imagination.

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Answer 14

“Is this a dagger which I see before me”

Question 15

2:1 Macbeth
Macbeth rep
First sign of Macbeth unravelling his fevered mind.
Commits to killing Duncan.

Answer 15

“While I threat, he lives;/ Words to the heat of deeds to cold breath gives…Duncan, for it is a knell/ That summon thee to heaven or to hell”

Question 16

2:2 Macbeth
Macbeth rep
Macbeth had killed Duncan
Macbeth feeling paranoid (reference to his mental decline)
Illuding to him not being masculine – Macbeth should be cool headed and unbothered about killing Duncan.

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Answer 16

“I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise.”

Question 17

2:2 Macbeth
Macbeth rep
referring to his guilt and not wanting to think about it.

Answer 17

“Look on’t again, I dare note”

Question 18

2:2 Macbeth
Macbeth rep
Talking about the blood on his hands
Hyperbole – needs a whole ocean to wash his hands clean of the sin he committed.

Answer 18

“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood.”

Question 19

3:1 Macbeth
Macbeth rep
The witches illuded to Banquo’s decedents being kings and Macbeth just got crowned king meaning Malcom in a threat to him. It’s given a reason for BANQUO to kill MACBETH so FLEANCE (his son) can become king.

Answer 19

“They hailed him father of a line of kings…/And put a barren sceptre in my gripe.”

Question 20

3:3 Banquo
Macbeth Rep
Banquo gives himself up to the murders so his osn could live

Answer 20

“O Treachery”

Question 21

3:4 Macbeth
Macbeth rep
Fear surrounding Banquo’s death

Answer 21

“Cabined, cribbed, confined”

Question 22

3:4 Macbeth
Macbeth rep
Banquo is the serpent, Fleance is the worm. In time the worm that escaped will be a threat to his kingship.

Answer 22

“There grown serpent lies, the worm that’s fled/ Hath nature that in time will venom breed”

Question 23

3:4 Lady Macbeth
Macbeth rep
Macbeth see the ghost again and bursts into violent anger, he refers to the ghost having ruby cheeks compared to his that are blanched with fear. Demonstrating how he is living in fear as a tyrant leader afraid of who might target him after his actions.

Answer 23

“Keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, / When mine is blanched with fear.”

Question 24

3:4 Macbeth
Macbeth rep
The dead will start to try get revenge on Macbeth

Answer 24

“Blood will have blood”

Question 25

4:1 Witch
Macbeth rep
Reference to evil Macbeth.

Answer 25

“Something wicked this way comes.”

Question 26

4:1 Macbeth
Macbeth rep
Oath to kill Macduff

Answer 26

“I’ll make assurance double sure/ and take a bond of fate: thou shalt live.”

Question 27

4:1 Macbeth
Macbeth rep
Killing continues as he feels threatens by MacDuff. He is killing anyone in his residents and his family.
Tyrant – his morality is corrupted

Answer 27

“His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls.”

Question 28

4:3 Macduff
Macbeth rep
Macbeth is ruling through fear and Scotland is reaping the consequences.
The quote describes the state of Scotland - it’s in a bad state because there is a tyrant of the throne - Macbeth was originally loved by all but now he has become a tyranny and Scotland is suffer due to this.

Answer 28

“New windows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows”

Question 29

4:3 Malcom
Macbeth Rep
How his once ‘friends’ and ‘acquaintances’ once loved him and praised him now degrade him.

Answer 29

“This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues, / was once thought honest”

Question 30

4:3 Macduff
Macbeth Rep
Again, reiterating how Scotland is being treated and ruled under Macbeths tyrant rule.

Answer 30

“Bleed, bleed, poor country / great tyranny, lay thou basis sure”

Question 31

4:3 Macduff
Macbeth Rep
As each day passes Macbeth ruins it even more.

Answer 31

“it weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash/ is added to her wounds.”

Question 32

4:3 Malcom
Macbeth rep
Malcom describing Macbeth

Answer 32

“I grant him bloody/ Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful, / Sudden, malicious, smacking every son/ That has a name.”

Question 33

4:3 Macduff
Macbeth Rep
After Malcom suggests after some of his actions it makes Macbeth look ‘as pure as snow’. Macduff replies asking how one could be more evil than Macbeth.

Answer 33

“of horrid hell can come a devil more damned/ in evils to top Macbeth.”

Question 34

4:3 Macduff
Macbeth rep
Not to live – Macbeth is not fit to govern
Nation miserable - Scotland is not a good place to live under his rule
Bloody-sceptred – only became king by being violent.

Answer 34

“Fit to govern?/ No, not to live. O nation miserable!/ With an untitled tyrant, bloody-sceptred

Question 35

5:3 Angus
Macbeth rep
Macbeth is a usurper.

Answer 35

“His title/ Hang loose about him, like a giants robe/ Upon a dwarfish thief.”

Question 36

5:3 Macbeth
Macbeth rep
Macbeth reflects on his ‘bleak’ life – you see Macbeth be vulnerable for the first time. He suggests he doesn’t have much going for him anymore so he will fight to his death in order to keep the little power he currently hold.

Answer 36

“I have lived long enough. My way of life/ Is fall’n into the sere, the yellow leaf,/ And that which should accompany old age,/ As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,/ I must not look to have but in their stead/ curses”

Question 37

5:3 Macbeth
Macbeth rep
Valiant fighter – courageous – give it one last go.

Answer 37

“I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked”

Question 38

5:3 Macbeth
Macbeth rep
Tyrant leader.

Answer 38

“Hang those that talk of fear”

Question 39

5:3 Macbeth
Macbeth rep
Masculinity - fearless

Answer 39

“I will not be afraid of death and bane”

Question 40

5:5 Macbeth
Macbeth rep
Macbeth has forgotten what fear feels like – His life has been full of horrors he is no longer afraid of.

Answer 40

“I have almost forgot the taste of fears.”

Question 41

5:5 Macbeth
Macbeth rep
Talking about the futility of life – life has no worth to him anymore – has nothing and doesn’t value life anymore.

Answer 41

“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player/ That struts and frets his hour upon the stage/ And then is heard no more. It is a tale/ Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury/ Signifying nothing.”

Question 42

5:8 Macbeth
Macbeth rep
He will not kill himself – he will fight

Answer 42

“why should I play the Roman fool and die/ On mine own sword?”

Question 43

5:8 Macbeth
Macbeth rep
Guilt

Answer 43

“My soul is too much charged/ With the blood of thine already”

Question 44

5:8 Macbeth
Macbeth rep
Macbeth refuses to fight macduff

Answer 44

“I’ll no fight with thee”

Question 45

5:8 Macduff
Macbeth rep
Macduff emasculates Macbeth and then calls him out for being a tyrant – someone who rules out though fear – as he does not want to fight macduff (fear?)

2Quotes

Answer 45

“The yield the coward”

“Here may you see the tyrant”

Question 46

5:8 Macbeth
Macbeth rep
Macbeth will fight to the death.

Answer 46

“I will not yield…Yet I will try the last. Before my body,/ I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,/ And damned be him that first cries ‘Hold, enough’”