maccie b.

Question 1

why does Lady Macbeth fear that Macbeth wont be able to kill Duncan?

Answer 1

she says he is “too full of the milk of human kindness” this contrasts to the tyrant he becomes later

Question 2

what is Macbeth’s first line onstage?

Answer 2

“so foul and fair a day I have not seen” this shows macbeth’s inner conflict and foreshadows the witches control over him

Question 3

how does the captain describe Macbeths sword in battle?

Answer 3

“smoked with bloody excecution” - excecution suggests legal and justified killing. contrasts his later behaviour.

Question 4

“stars hide your fires…..

Answer 4

…let not light see my black and deep desires” - conflict between light and dark imagery. also shows that macbeth knows that his ambition is wrong.

Question 5

who does macbeth “unseam from the nave to the chaps”?

Answer 5

macdonald

Question 6

what does angus tell the other men about Macbeth being a traitor? he uses textile imagery.

Answer 6

“now does he feel his title hang loose about him like a giants robe on a dwarfish theif”

Question 7

“come you spirits…..

Answer 7

…that tend upon mortal thoughts, unsex me here”

Question 8

what quote shows that Lady Macbeth wishes to be filled with cruelty?

Answer 8

“fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty” - this would have shocked a Jacobean audience

Question 9

how are Macbeth and Lady Macbeth described by Malcom at the end of the play

Answer 9

“the dead butcher and his feind like queen”

Question 10

what does Lady M say when Macbeth has murdered Duncan and how does she contrast this with what she says while sleepwalking?

Answer 10

-“a little water clears us of this deed”
-“all the perfumes of arabia will not sweeten this little hand”

Question 11

what is suggested when Lady M says “the Thane of Fife had a wife, where is she now?”

Answer 11

Macbeth no longer confides in his wife

Question 12

what is the biblical and James I reference that Lady M tells Macbeth to do when killing Duncan?

Answer 12

‘look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it”

Question 13

what quote at the beggining of the play shows how Macbeth sees Lady Macbeth as an equal and friend

Answer 13

“my dearest partner of greatness”

Question 14

give a quote that shows Lady Macbeths violence

Answer 14

“plucked the nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out”

Question 15

give two quotes that talk about blood during Lady Ms sleepwalking scene

Answer 15

-“out damned spot”
-“‘who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him”

Question 16

give a quote that shows Lady Macbeth manipulating Macbeth by threatning his manhood

Answer 16

“when you durst do it, then you were a man”

Question 17

what does macbeth say that directly adresses his own vaulting ambition?

Answer 17

“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition” (words linking to horses=unpredictability, wild)(vaulting=jumping up in the natural order)

Question 18

what quote from macbeth shows us his pessimistic veiwpoint near the end of the play?

Answer 18

“lifes but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage”

Question 19

what does Banquo talk about when he delivers his Act 3 soliliquy?

Answer 19

he ponders that Macbeth has “plyed most foully” for the crown but that if his prophecy has come true, so might his.

Question 20

what does Duncan say when he decides to give Macbeth the title of Thane of Cawdor?

Answer 20

“what he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won” (mimics the contradiction of the witches)

Question 21

what does macbeth say about the Prince of Cumberland?

Answer 21

“The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step on which I must fall down or else overleap” (again he is jumping his place in the natural order)(he sees people as barriers to his success)

Question 22

what does macbeth say regarding blood after he has killed duncan?

Answer 22

“will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand” (interesting use of pagan god rather than christian god - macbeth has lost touch with god”

Question 23

what does macbeth say after the murder of duncan that shows he has lost touch with god

Answer 23

“but wherefore could not I pronounce ‘Amen’”

Question 24

what does macbeth say that is ironic about the witches?

Answer 24

“damned all those that trust them”

Question 25

what three things do the witches say to Banquo?

Answer 25

-“lesser than macbeth and greater”
-“not so happy yet much happier”
-“thou shalt get kings though thou be none”
(paradoxes to show theme of duality and false faces)

Question 26

how does Banquo describe the witches?

Answer 26

as “instruments of darkness”

Question 27

what two quotes from Lady Macbeth show how she sees her feminitiy as weakness?

Answer 27

-“unsex me here”
-“come to my woman’s breasts and take my milk for gall”

Question 28

what does Macbeth say to do with nature in his “is this a dagger that I see before me” speech?

Answer 28

“nature seems dead”

Question 29

what does Macbeth think he hears after he has killed Duncan?

Answer 29

'’Sleep no more: Macbeth does murder sleep’”

Question 30

what were the three impacts of Duncan’s murder on the wider world? (give quotes)

Answer 30

-day turns to night “the dark night strangles the travelling lamp”
-horses eat each other “tis said that they eat each other”
-owl killed a falcon “Falcon…was by a mousing owl killed”

Question 31

what two things does Macbeth claim that the witches have given him?

Answer 31

-“fruitless crown”
-“barren septre”

Question 32

give the quote about Macbeth being scared of Banquo

Answer 32

“our fears in Banquo stick deep, and in his royalty of nature” (he would be a good king)

Question 33

what does macbeth say after he has sent the muderers to kill Banquo to lady macbeth?

Answer 33

“we have scorched the snake, not killed it”

Question 34

give quotes from the Banquo’s ghost scene

Answer 34

-“thou canst not say I did it; never shake thy gory locks at me!”
-“Avaunt and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee”
-“thy bones are marrowless thy blood is cold”

Question 35

give a quote that demonstrates duplicity?

Answer 35

“poisoned chalice”

Question 36

What does Macbeth say about “supernatural soliciting”?

Answer 36

“This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill cannot be good”

Question 37

What does Macbeth say about one of the witches prophecies?

Answer 37

“I bear a charmed life, which must not yield to one of woman born”

Question 38

What does Lady Macbeth ironically say about madness after Duncan’s murder?

Answer 38

“These deeds must not be thought after these ways; so it will make us mad”

Question 39

What does Lady Macbeth say regarding “ravens”?

Answer 39

“The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements”

Question 40

Give a quote where Macbeth peruses the witches

Answer 40

“Speak, if you can: what are you?”

Question 41

Give a quote where macbeths asks something of the witches and is roasted

Answer 41

“Speak, I charge you” - Macbeth
“Listen, but speak not to it” - Witches

Question 42

Give a quote where Duncan is over trusting

Answer 42

“He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust” (previous thane of Cawdor)