Themes

Question 1

Supernatural

Answer 1

‘You should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret you are so’ (Banquo A1 S3)
‘Or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation proceeding from the heat oppressed brain? (Macbeth A2 S1)
‘Is this a dagger which i see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have not, and yet i see thee still’ (Macbeth A2 S1)
‘That look not like the inhabitants o’ the earth’ (Banquo A1 S3)

Question 2

Ambition

Answer 2

‘Letting “i dare not” wait upon “i would”, like the poor cat i’ the adage’ (Lady Macbeth A1 S7)
‘Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all as the weird women promised, and, i fear. Thou playd’dst most foully for’t:’ (Banquo A3 S1)

Question 3

Kingship and Country

Answer 3

‘I think our country sinks beneath the yoke, it weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash is added to her wounds:’ (Malcolm A4 S3)
‘Tis said they eat each other’ (Old Man A2 S4)

Question 4

Good and Evil

Answer 4

‘this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen’ (Macduff A5 S9)
‘Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths’ (Banquo A1 S3)
‘So foul and fair a day i have not seen’ (Macbeth A1 S3)

Question 5

Appearance and Reality

Answer 5

‘Why do you dress me in these borrowed robes?’ (M A1 S4)
‘False face must hide what the false heart doth know’ (Macbeth A1 S7)
‘look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t’ (Lady Macbeth A1 S5)