Supernatural

Question 1

What do the witches do to manipulate macbeth

Answer 1

“Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?”
-the witches could be doing this to manipulate macbeth into killing Duncan

Question 2

What does Macbeth say that is similar to the witches

Answer 2

“Such a fair and foul day I have not seen” - ambiguous
Are they already subconsciously influencing Macbeth
Or is he connected to the witches already
Irony- witches have seen the future but Macbeth has not

It is a PARADOX

Question 3

How is Banquo presented in front of the witches

Answer 3

Brave
“Neither beg nor fear”
Cautious and desirous of the truth
James 1 believed he was descended from banquo
“What does the devil speak true”

Question 4

When Macbeth sees Banquo’s ghosts

Answer 4

“Never shake thy gory locks at me!”

Question 5

How is the significance of the supernatural shown by Shakespeare

Answer 5

By starting with the witches

Use of pathetic fallacy as they can only meet in “thunder lightning or rain”

Question 6

How is the unnatural nature of the witches shown

Answer 6

Trochaic tetrameter instead of iambic pentameter
Rhyme
Reference to familiars
“You should be women// and yet your beards”

Question 7

LM’s vaulting ambition and commanding of spirits

Answer 7

“Come you spirits […] unsex me here” - commanding spirits -> goes against chain of being

Question 8

Macbeth being controlled or manipulated by the spirits right before the king’s murder

Answer 8

“Is this a dagger which i see before me” - control of witches over Macbeth.