Paper 1 - Macbeth Flashcards
How does Banquo acknowledge that the witches’ are untrustworthy? (Act 1)
“The instruments of darkness tell us truths, / Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s / In deepest consequence”
How does Lady Macbeth first question Macbeth’s bravery? (Act 1)
“Art thou afeard […] a coward living in thine own self asteem?
What does Macbeth say to Lady Macbeth to indicate her unusual masculine characteristics? (Act 1)
“Thy undaunted mettle should compose nothing but males.”
How does Duncan refer to Lady Macbeth when he arrives at their castle? (Act 1)
“honour’d hostess!”
“fair and noble hostess!”
“By your leave, hostess.”
What does the Old Man say after Duncan’s murder indicating a disruption in the natural order? (Act 2)
“A falcon, towering in her pride of place / Was by a mousing owl hawk’d and kill’d.”
“Duncan’s horses […] turn’d wild in nature […] as they would make war with mankind”
How does Macbeth tell Lady Macbeth that the murder still troubles him? (Act 3)
“O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!”
What shows how Macbeth’s and Lady Macbeth’s relationship changes? (Act 1 + Act 3)
“dearest partner of greatness”
vs
“dearest chuck”
How does Macbeth express his trust in the witches in the middle of the play? (Act 3)
“I will to-morrow, […] to the weird sisters: / More shall they speak; for now I am bent to know”
How is Hecate described when she first appears to the witches? (Act 3)
“Why, how, now, Hecate! You look angerly.”
What does Hecate say to the witches to give the reason for her anger? (Act 3)
“How did you dare / To trade and traffic with Macbeth / In riddles of affair and death?”
“Make amends now, get you gone.”
How does Ross describe Macduff to Lady Macduff? (Act 4)
“noble, wise, judicious, and best knows / The fits o’ the season.”
What does Macbeth say to display his ruthlessness in the moment? (Act 4)
“If thou speak’st false, / Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, / Till famine cling thee”
How does Macbeth revert to his old self when nearing his death? (Act 5)
“I will not yield […] Before my body
I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff […] !”
How are attitudes to death in battle reflected by Siward reacting to his son’s death? (Act 5)
“I would not wish them to a fairer death”
“he parted well”
How does Macbeth begin to doubt the witches, and then fully reject them? (Act 5)
“begin / To doubt the equivocation of the fiend / That lies like truth”
“And be these juggling fiends no more believed”
