quotes to show macbeth's control/lack of

Question 1

act 1.5: “my [1] partner of [2].”

Answer 1

[1] - dearest
[2] - greatness

inverts typical 17th century gender & social roles by putting them both on the same pedestal, auguring an imbalanced power dynamic.

Question 2

act 1.7: “we will [1] no further in this business.”

Answer 2

[1] - proceed

Question 3

act 3.2: “o, [1] of [2] is my mind, dear wife!”

Answer 3

[1] - full
[2] - scorpions

his guilty conscience is stinging and attacking him; his fears control him.

Question 4

act 1.5: “[1] thee hither!”

Answer 4

[1] - hie

even in his absence, lady m is commanding him with her use of imperatives.

Question 5

act 3.4: “cabin’d, cribbed, [1].”

Answer 5

[1] - confin’d

his fears confine him, suffocating him in a claustrophobic trap as shown by the consonance & cacophonous ‘c’s’ when he finds out fleance escaped the murderers sent to get him and banquo.

Question 6

act 1.3: “rap’t at the [1] words.”

Answer 6

[1] - witches’

Question 7

act 3.1: “and [1] i could
with [2] power [3] him from my [4].”

Answer 7

[1] - though
[2] - barefaced
[3] - sweep
[4] - sight

macbeth is aware that as king, he could simply rid banquo, and so, utters such words to his hired murderers.