Paper 1 - Macbeth

Question 1

Quotes on - Ambition

Answer 1

.- Art not without ambition, but without the illness that should attend it (LM to M)

• The bell invites me. Hear it not Duncan for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell (M)
• We have scorched the snake but not killed it (M)
• I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself and falls on th’other (M)

Question 2

Quotes on - Evil

Answer 2

• I am in blood stepped in so far that should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er (Macbeth)
• Naught’s had, all’s spent, Where our desire is got without content (Lady Macbeth)
• By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes [enter Macbeth]
• Come, you spirits … unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe, top-full fo direst cruelty! (Lady Macbeth)

Question 3

Quotes on - Macbeth

Answer 3

• I am in blood stepped in so far that should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er
• By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes [enter Macbeth]
• Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature
• If chance may have me king, why chance may crown me without my stir
• This dead butcher and his fiend queen
• O full of scorpions is my mind dear wife
• Be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck
• Till he unseam’d him from the nave to th’chaps and fixed his head upon our battlements
• Cannot be ill cannot be good
• The bell invites me. Hear it not Duncan for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell
• We have scorched the snake but not killed it
• I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself and falls on th’other
• Glamis hath murdered sleep and so Cawdor shall sleep no more: Macbeth shall sleep no more
• Will all great Neptunes’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No: this hand will rather the multitudinous seas incardine

Question 4

Quotes on - Lady Macbeth

Answer 4

• Naught’s had, all’s spent, Where our desire is got without content
• I would … have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I sworn so
• Come, you spirits … unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe, top-full fo direst cruelty!
• These deeds must not be thought after these ways: so it will make us mad
• Will these hands ne’er be clean
• Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark to cry ‘ Hold, Hold’
• Too full o’th’milk of human kindness

Question 5

Quotes on - Supernatural and Fate

Answer 5

.- If chance may have me king, why chance may crown me without my stir (Macbeth)

• Fair is foul and foul is fair (Witches)
• This even handed justice commends th’ingredience of our poison’d chalice to our own lips (Macbeth)
• Blood will have blood (Macbeth)
• The bell invites me. Hear it not Duncan for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell (Macbeth)
• But wherefore could not I pronounce amen? I had most need of blessing and Amen stuck in my throat

Question 6

Quotes on - Banquo

Answer 6

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Question 7

Quotes on - Reality vs illusion and fear

Answer 7

.- Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark to cry ‘ Hold, Hold’ (Lady Macbeth)

• Look like th’innocent flower but be the serpent under’t (LM)
• There’s daggers in men’s smiles; the nea’er in blood. the nearer bloody (Donalbain)

Question 8

Quotes on - The witches

Answer 8

• Fair is foul and foul is fair
• When shall we three meet again, in thunder lightning or in rain
• Double double toil and trouble