Quick fire quotes- Macbeth

Question 1

witches

Answer 1

Witches: “Fair is foul, foul is fair”
Witches: “All hail Macbeth… king hereafter”
Witches: “Something wicked this way comes”

Question 2

Lady Macbeth

Answer 2

Lady Macbeth: “look like th’innocent flower,
but be the serpent under’t”
Lady Macbeth: “come you spirits…unsex me”
Lady Macbeth: “Out, damned spot!”

Question 3

Macbeth

Answer 3

Macbeth: “Is this a dagger… before me?”
Macbeth: “never shake thy gory locks at me!”
Macbeth : ‘Full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!
numb reacting to wife’s death- ‘Life’s but a walking shadow.’
at the end Macbeth:’ I have almost forgot the taste of fears’

Question 4

Banquo

Answer 4

Banquo: “the instruments of darkness tell
us truths”
Banquo: “King, Cawdor, Glamis”
Banquo: “O, treachery!”

Question 5

King Duncan

Answer 5

King Duncan: “valiant cousin, worthy
gentleman”
King Duncan: “the mind’s construction in
the face”
King Duncan: “more is thy due”

Question 6

Macduff

Answer 6

Macduff: “most sacrilegious murder”
Macduff: “This fiend of Scotland”
Macduff: “All my pretty chickens”

Question 7

AMBITION- it is Macbeth’s fatal flaw and makes lady Macbeth cruel and blood thirsty

Answer 7

“All hail Macbeth… king”
“vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself”
“we have scorch’d the snake, not kill’d it”
“come you spirits… unsex me here”

Question 8

SUPERNATURAL AND GUILT- the witches are agents of chaos- hallucinations symbolise guilt due to reliance on the supernatural

Answer 8

“Fair is foul, foul is fair”
“All hail Macbeth… king”
“Is this a dagger which I see before me?”
“never shake thy gory locks at me!”
“come you spirits… unsex me here”
“Out, damned spot!

Question 9

LEADERSHIP AND KINGSHIP

Answer 9

“valiant cousin, worthy gentleman”
“more is thy due..more than all can pay”
“we have scorch’d the snake, not kill’d it”
“never shake thy gory locks at me!”

Question 10

LOYALTY AND BETRAYAL

Answer 10

“valiant cousin, worthy gentleman”“we have scorch’d the snake, not kill’d it”
“most sacrilegious murder”
“All my pretty chickens..at one fell swoop?”

Question 11

FATE AND FREE WILL

Answer 11

“come you spirits… unsex me here” “the instruments of darkness tell us truths”
“Be these juggling fiends no more believed”

Question 12

APPEARANCES AND REALITY -Shakespeare wanted to warn people never to
trust appearances as they can be used to deceive and murder others

Answer 12

“look like th’innocent flower but be the
serpent”
“Fair is foul, foul is fair”

Question 13

Masculinity

Answer 13

“Are you a man?”
“I dare do all that may become a man”
“when you durst do it…you were a man”