Supernatural Quotes

Question 1

Macbeth 5:5 - M watching army approach and now realises the witches were not speaking straightforwardly.

Answer 1

“I begin to doubt the equivocation of the fiend that lies like truth“

Question 2

Macbeth 1:3 - M is uncertain about the witches at first.

Answer 2

“This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good.”

Question 3

Banquo 1:3 - B telling M witches should not be trusted

Answer 3

“instruments of darkness”

Question 4

Witches 1:1 - weather setting a dark and violent mood - hints unnatural events occurring: pathetic fallacy

Answer 4

“Thunder” “Lightening”

Question 5

Witches 1:1 - speaking in rhyming couplets which sounds unnatural like casting an evil spell

Answer 5

“When the hurly-burly’s done, When the battle’s lost and won”

Question 6

Witches 1:1 - using paradoxes: riddling and confusing = witches not to be trusted -> nothing is what it seems.

Answer 6

“fair is foul and foul is fair”
“when the battle’s lost and won”