MB Act 1 Scene 1

Question 1

Pathetic fallacy is used in this scene, what connetations does a storm have?

Answer 1

It’s being used to set the first scene as this is a tragedy play

Question 2

What might the paradoxical statement ‘when the battle’s lost and won’ suggest?

Answer 2

It suggests mystery and shows what will happen in the play.

Question 3

How do the witches speak?

Answer 3

They speak in troiatic tetrameter and with rhyming couplets. They have a narrator style role at the start of the play. They speak in unison.

Question 4

How do the lords speak?

Answer 4

With iambic pentameter

Question 5

What atmosphere does the opening create?

Answer 5

Ominous, frightening and moody atmospheres

Question 6

What is pathetic fallacy?

Answer 6

A term for the type of personification that gives human emotions to weather

Question 7

Which paradoxical phrase shows when the witches plan to meet again?

Answer 7

When the battle is lost and won

Question 8

Why do the witches speak in an unusual way?

Answer 8

So they stand out and seem supernatural, strange and important

Question 9

What are ‘Greymalkin’ and ‘Paddock’?

Answer 9

The witch’s familiars

Question 10

What is meant by ‘fair is foul and foul is fair’?

Answer 10

Everything good is bad and bad is good. Looks are decieving and the audience shouldn’t trust the characters.