Quotes

Question 1

The Witches’ Chant

Answer 1

Fair is foul and foul is fair,

Hover through the fog and filthy air.

Question 2

King Duncan’s Description of Macbeth

Answer 2

O valiant cousin, worthy gentleman!

Question 3

The Captain’s Description of Macbeth

Answer 3

brave Macbeth

Question 4

The Traitor Ross Talks About

Answer 4

The Thane of Cawdor

Question 5

Ross’s Description of Macbeth

Answer 5

Bellona’s bridegroom

Question 6

King Duncan Describing The Winning and Losing of The Title

Answer 6

What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.

Question 7

Macbeth Describing The Day

Answer 7

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

echoing the witches

Question 8

Banquo Describing The Witches

Answer 8

What are these,
So withered, and so wild in their attire,
That look not like th’inhabitants o’th’earth,

Question 9

Third Witch Predicts Macbeth Will Be King

Answer 9

All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!

Question 10

Third Witch Predicts Banquo Will Be the Father or Ancestor of Kings.

Answer 10

Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.

Question 11

Macbeth asking why the messengers give him a title that he believes isn’t his.

Answer 11

why do you dress me

In borrowed robes?

Question 12

Macbeth saying the best is yet to come

Answer 12

Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor!

The greatest is behind!

Question 13

Banquo talking about deception by evil using small inconsequential truths.

Answer 13

But 'tis strange:
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray's 
In deepest consequence.

Question 14

Macbeth saying what has happened cannot be both good and evil.

Answer 14

This supernatural soliciting

Cannot be ill, cannot be good.

Question 15

Macbeth hoping that faith will make him king.

Answer 15

If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me,

Without my stir.

Question 16

Banquo’s description of the new title Macbeth must get used to.

Answer 16

strange garments

Question 17

King Duncan saying you cannot judge a man’s character by his face.

Answer 17

There’s no art

To find the mind’s construction in the face

Question 18

Macbeth saying that his loyal service to the king is it’s own reward.

Answer 18

The service and the loyalty I owe,

In doing it, pays itself.

Question 19

Macbeth planning to murder King Duncan following him naming his son Malcolm as the heir to the throne.

Answer 19

The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap,
For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires!
Let not light see my black and deep desires;
The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be
Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.

Question 20

Lady Macbeth doubting Macbeth has the right character to steal the throne.

Answer 20

Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be
What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way.

Question 21

Lady Macbeth wanting to talk to Macbeth so she can prepare him and convince him to kill the king.

Answer 21

Hie thee hither,
That I may pour my spirits in thine ear,
And chastise with the valour of my tongue
All that impedes thee from the golden round,

Question 22

Lady Macbeth asking to be rid of her femininity and have it replaced by cruelty

Answer 22

unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty.

Question 23

Lady Macbeth on turning her milk bitter and anger inducing

Answer 23

And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,

Question 24

Lady Macbeth addressing Macbeth when he enters the room and addressing his future kingship.

Answer 24

Great Glamis! Worthy Cawdor!

Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter.

Question 25

Lady Macbeth saying King Duncan will not see the light of day

Answer 25

O, never

Shall sun that morrow see.

Question 26

Lady Macbeth saying Macbeth should hide cruelty with innocence.

Answer 26

look like the innocent flower,

But be the serpent under’t.

Question 27

King Duncan asking Lady Macbeth to take him to Macbeth + dramatic irony example.

Answer 27

Give me your hand;
Conduct me to mine host: we love him highly,
And shall continue our graces towards him.

Question 28

Macbeth wanting to get the deed over and done with.

Answer 28

If it were done, when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well

It were done quickly.

Question 29

Macbeth on how his actions may have bad consequences for him

Answer 29

But in these cases

We still have judgement here,

Question 30

Macbeth on how as King Duncan’s host he should be protecting him not harming him.

Answer 30

as his host,
Who should against his murderer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself.

Question 31

Macbeth saying his sole incentive in killing King Duncan is his ambition. (Macbeth’s hamartia)

Answer 31

I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself
And falls on the other.

Question 32

Macbeth saying people’s new and good opinions of him are like new clothes.

Answer 32

We will proceed no further in this business:
He hath honoured me of late, and I have bought
Golden opinions from all sorts of people,
Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,
Not cast aside so soon. (more clothes imagery)

Question 33

Macbeth saying that he will only do what is becoming of a gentleman.

Answer 33

I dare do all that may become a man;

Who dares do more, is none.

Question 34

Lady Macbeth saying what she would do to keep a resolution like Macbeth’s.

Answer 34

I have given suck, and know
How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me -
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.

Question 35

Lady Macbeth saying if Macbeth is courageous they will not fail.

Answer 35

But screw your courage to the sticking-place,

And we’ll not fail.

Question 36

Macbeth saying that they must deceive the people around them by wearing a mask of innocence.

Answer 36

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.