Scholarly Article and Macbeth Notes

Question 1

(scholarly article) Macbeth was made out of … for King James

Answer 1

gratefulness

Question 2

(scholarly article) Macbeth is based on …. as the King traced his line back to …

Answer 2

Scottish history; Banquo

Question 3

(scholarly article) Shakespeare’s main scholarly source:

Answer 3

Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland by Raphael Holinshed

Question 4

(scholarly article) real life: … helps Macbeth kill the king

Answer 4

Banquo

Question 5

(scholarly article) in his play, Shakespeare intensifies Maceth’s

Answer 5

isolation and evil

Question 6

(scholarly article) real life: Duncan is … and … and Macbeth reigns … for … years
play: Duncan is … and … and Macbeth is a …

Answer 6

young; feeble; brilliantly; 10; mature; virtuous; tyrant

Question 7

(scholarly article) equivocator in Macbeth is an allusion to ….who was part of the …

Answer 7

Father Henry Garnet; Gunpowder Plot

Question 8

(scholarly article) King James believed that a king was a …. As such, regicide was the …

Answer 8

sacred figure, chosen by God; ultimate crime

Question 9

(scholarly article) King James suspected the hand of the … in any plot to …. Also believed that … conspired to harm him at certain points in his life

Answer 9

devil; murder a king; witches

Question 10

(scholarly article) Macbeth is fully aware of the …. of his deeds and is …. by his awareness

Answer 10

wickedness; tormented

Question 11

(scholarly article) Macbeth and Lady Macbeth act on …, restless …, and a will to ….normally kept in check by the pragmatic, ethical, and religious considerations to which the wavering macbeth initially gives voice

Answer 11

ambition; desire; power

Question 12

(scholarly article) at the time Shakespeare wrote Macbeth, authorities in England and Scotland were bringing women to trial on charges of

Answer 12

witchcraft and executing the

Question 13

(scholarly article) In Macbeth, the ambiguities of demonic agency are

Answer 13

never resolved

Question 14

(Act 1) Captain recounts that it wasn’t clear who would

Answer 14

win the battle

Question 15

(Act 1) Rebel:

Answer 15

Macdonald

Question 16

(Act 1) witches state “And thrice again to make up nine”→ nine is reference to

Answer 16

Lucifer

Question 17

(Act 1) Thane of Cawdor is …. He … and asked …

Answer 17

dead; confessed; forgiveness

Question 18

(Act 1) King Duncan on Thane’s betrayal: you can’t tell what someone thinks by

Answer 18

looking at him

Question 19

(Act 1) King is grateful to …, who acts …

Answer 19

Macbeth; humble

Question 20

(Act 1) Banquo gets some

Answer 20

acknowledgement

Question 21

(Act 1) …. is an obstacle for Macbeth as he is to be the next king

Answer 21

Malcolm

Question 22

(Act 1) Lady macbeth doubts that her husband will

Answer 22

do what it takes to be king

Question 23

(Act 1) Lady macbeth has no desire for goodness to reside within her, she seeks to

Answer 23

kill Duncan

Question 24

(Act 1) Lady Macbeth possibly invokes a …: …

Answer 24

curse; malediction

Question 25

(Act 1) Lady macbeth tells her husband to be ... and alludes to ....

Answer 25

fake; murdering the king

Question 26

(Act 1) King Duncan's discussion of how Macbeth's castle is a wonderful place illustrates use of

Answer 26

dramatic irony

Question 27

(Act 1) Macbeth struggles in his plan, as he remembers that Duncan is a .... and there is a potential ...

Answer 27

good king; backlash

Question 28

(Act 1) Macbeth worries of the people's

Answer 28

reactions

Question 29

(Act 1) Macbeth's wife begins to challenge his .... Macbeth doesn't want to lose his ...

Answer 29

masculinity; humanity

Question 30

(Act 1) Lady Macbeth develops the plan: make guards ..., ... them

Answer 30

drunk; frame

Question 31

(Act 2) Macbeth wants to speak with Banquo. Banquo is willing to comply as long as he remains ..

Answer 31

guiltless

Question 32

(Act 2) Macbeth sees a dagger: ..., sense of ... through vision

Answer 32

hallucination; guilt

Question 33

(Act 2) Macbeth's doubt gives way to ...

Answer 33

resolve

Question 34

(Act 2) Macbeth heard ... during murder

Answer 34

voices

Question 35

(Act 2) suppressing ...: Lady Macbeth says that they can't ... on the murder, because the .. will make them go insane

Answer 35

consciences; dwell; guilt

Question 36

(Act 2) Lady macbeth goes to plant the evidence as macbeth is not

Answer 36

strong enough

Question 37

(Act 2) gatekeeper:

Answer 37

comic relief

Question 38

(Act 2) nature reflects distress of king's murder: use of

Answer 38

pathetic fallacy

Question 39

(Act 2) Macbeth killed the

Answer 39

guards

Question 40

(Act 2) Banquo is a voice of ..., suggests to reconvene to discover more

Answer 40

reason

Question 41

(Act 2) Malcolm thinks the murderer might be ..., he and Donalbain ...

Answer 41

amongst them; flee

Question 42

(Act 2) Macbeth's kingdom built in ...

Answer 42

chaos

Question 43

(Act 3) Banquo worries that Macbeth

Answer 43

murdered Duncan

Question 44

(Act 3) King's sons being blamed. Macbeth begins to worry about

Answer 44

Banquo

Question 45

(Act 3) Macbeth hires murderers to

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kill Banquo & Fleance

Question 46

(Act 3) Lady macbeth says that it is safer to be ... than to be ...

Answer 46

dead; living as they are

Question 47

(Act 3) Macbeth is having

Answer 47

nightmares

Question 48

(Act 3) At party, Macbeth says that it is better for Banquo to be ... than ... as Banquo is absent

Answer 48

rude; dead

Question 49

(Act 3) In Act 6, Lennox is being ....

Answer 49

sarcastic

Question 50

(Act 3) Lennox says that Macbeth never showed love to Duncan before he

Answer 50

died

Question 51

(Act 4) Macbeth visits the witches. 1st apparition tells Macbeth to be wary of ..., 2nd apparition tells Macbeth that no man .... will harm him, 3rd apparition tells Macbeth that he will be destroyed when ... comes to ...

Answer 51

Macduff; born of woman; Birnam Wood; Dunsinane

Question 52

(Act 4) Macbeth sees that Banquo's line will rule for a long time; ... kings

Answer 52

8

Question 53

(Act 4) Seeing that Banquo's line will rule, Macbeth becomes ... and calls the hour ...

Answer 53

angry; cursed

Question 54

(Act 4) Macduff's family is ...

Answer 54

murdered

Question 55

(Act 4) Macduff and Malcolm plan a

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rebellion

Question 56

(Act 5) Lady Macbeth is ..., confesses her crimes

Answer 56

sleepwalking

Question 57

(Act 5) Macbeth is overly .... Malcolm and his army camoflauge themselves with ...

Answer 57

confident; branches

Question 58

(Act 5) Lady Macbeth ....

Answer 58

commits suicide

Question 59

(Act 5) Macduff born by ..., kills ..., ... becomes king

Answer 59

c-section; Macbeth; Malcolm