Super Natural

Question 1

Context
why was the theme of supernatural used?

Answer 1

James the 1st was fascinated by witches
Shakespeare wanted to conviene James the 1st that the theatre was good and entertaining so he wouldn’t shut them down
Jacobean audience also frightened of witches

Question 2

Motifs of the supernatural

Answer 2

-Every time the witches appear - thunder and lightening (pathetic fallacy)
-predictions and visions - witches show Macbeth his future

Question 3

When shall we three meet again in thunder lightening or in rain?

Answer 3

Witches speak in riddles and paradoxes
Trickery and manipulative
Rhyming couplets give the words of the witches a spell like sound
Pathetic fallacy - wether reflects when they appear

Question 4

Fair is foul foul is fair

Answer 4

Witches speak in paradoxes and contradictions - things won’t be as they seem
Oxymoron- contradictory nature of the witches

Question 5

All hail Macbeth thane of Glamis
all hail Macbeth thane of Cawdor
thou shalt be King here after

Answer 5

Witches prophecies what cause Macbeth’s hidden ambitions to be revealed to the audience
The witches aren’t the ones who tell Macbeth to do it they just give him the idea

Question 6

Thou shall get kings, though thou be none

Answer 6

Banquos sons will become king
Means that macbeths rise to power will be pointless as it has been past on to banquos children not his own

Question 7

Stay you imperfect speakers
Speak I charge you

Answer 7

Imperatives - commands the witches to say more
Reveals his hidden ambitions
Intrigued by the witches not scared

Question 8

Have we eaten on the insane root

Answer 8

Warns Macbeth of the witches
Doesn’t believe anything that they say

Question 9

What, can the devil speak true ?

Answer 9

Banquo refers to the witches as devils - creatures of hell and are evil
Witches second prophecy has come true

Question 10

This Super natural soliciting cannot be ill cannot be good

Answer 10

Wants to stay truthful to the king but his ambition has gotten the better of him
Knows that it goes against the divine right of the kings

Question 11

Unsex me here
Fill me with direst cruelty

Answer 11

Imperatives
Calls on those Evelio spirits to take away her womanly kindness that will prevent her from committing the crimes she has planned

Question 12

I would not sleep
I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters

Answer 12

Has been troubled by the witches and has kept him up a night
Senses something is wrong
Scared of the witches unlike Macbeth

Question 13

I think not of them

Answer 13

Has thought about the witches all the time and has planned to kill
Lies to banquo

Question 14

A dagger of the mind a false creation

Answer 14

Dagger soliloquy
Can’t tell if it is real or imaginary
Guides him to kill Duncan

Question 15

The ghost of banquo enters

Answer 15

Could be real might be hallucinating
Appeals to the Jacobean audience

Question 16

Wayward son
Loves for his own ends not for you

Answer 16

Calls him their evil son
Macbeth doesn’t care for witchcraft only what it can do to help him
Plays on his hidden ambition

Question 17

Something wicked this way comes

Answer 17

Macbeth has been taken over by evil

Question 18

Macbeth Macbeth Macbeth

Answer 18

Reduces his status from before
Shows how low Macbeth has sunk

Question 19

Apparition of am armed head
Beware Macduff

Answer 19

Foreshadows macbeths death as he is murdered by Macduff who chops off his head

Question 20

Bloody child
For none of woman born shall harm Macbeth

Answer 20

Believes he is invincible and cannot be killed

Question 21

Child crowned with a tree in his hand
Macbeth shall never vanquished be until great birnam wood to high dunsinane hill

Answer 21

Macbeth shan’t be defeated until the forest moves up to his castle
Believes he was ages left

Question 22

A show of eight kings ghost of banquo following

Answer 22

Succession of the kings
Macbeth furious at the fact banquos descendent will become king

Question 23

Juggling fiends

Answer 23

Macbeth calls the witches meddling creatures
The witches tricked him with the prophecies
Was his downfall caused by him or the witches ?

Question 24

Win us with honest triffles

Answer 24

Banquo knows that the witches are trying to win them over so that they can do there evil deeds and trickery

Question 25

The visions descend

Answer 25

Implying they come from hell

Question 26

Out damn spot

Answer 26

Duncans blood she can’t wash your hands juxtaposes earlier when she says a little water clears us of this deed