Withces

Question 1

Whilst being the ‘instruments’ of fate, the witches’ cause chaos

Answer 1

through manipulating Macbeth’s tragic flaw (‘weird’ is the Anglo-Saxon for ‘fate

Question 2

Macbeth’s hamartia – his ambition – ultimately seals

Answer 2

the destiny outlined by the witches

Question 3

The witches’ reality is questioned throughout the play, as

Answer 3

a means of suggesting Macbeth only has himself to blame

Question 4

The witches embody a key Jacobean debate as to whether the fate of

Answer 4

the soul was predestined before birth

Question 5

why do I yield to that suggestionWhose horrid image doth unfix my hair

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And make my seated heart knock at my ribs (Macbeth)

Question 6

onlyVaulting ambition, whic

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o’erleaps itselfAnd falls on the other (Macbeth)

Question 7

As by the strength of their illusionShall draw him on to his confusion:

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He shall spurn fate, scorn death
(Hecate on Macbeth

Question 8

Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,

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I cannot taint with fear (Macbeth)

Question 9

Lady Macbeth: thou wouldst be great;Art not without ambition,

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but withoutThe illness should attend it

Question 10

I am in bloodStepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more,

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Returning were as tedious as go o’er (Macbeth)

Question 11

As by the strength of their illusionShall draw him on to his

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confusion:He shall spurn fate, scorn death
(Hecate on Macbeth)

Question 12

Though Birnam Wood be come to Dunsinane,And thou opposed, being of no

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woman born,Yet I will try the last (Macbeth to Macduff