Shakespearean-isms
Thou cream-faced loon!
You pale, scared fool! / You coward!/ You idiot!
Macdonwald is cut from the navel to the jaw by __________
Macbeth!
There's no other motivation to do this...only the kind of soaring ambition that's in danger of overreaching itself and bringing me to grief
Macbeth
Thane is a Scottish title of nobility, similar to a French duke
TRUE! Roughly similar to a lord or duke
In Act 1, Scene 1, why do you think the witches (weird sisters) confuse and intertwine fair and foul?
Likely to demonstrate the world of moral ambiguity, where evil may be mistaken for good
You're out of shape. / You're soft and lazy.
This general, ____________, is the best England has to offer
Siward
My hands are the same colour as yours, but I'd be ashamed to have a heart so white
Lady Macbeth (criticizing Macbeth for feeling guilt and panic when she is trying to stay composed following the murder of King Duncan)
In Act 4, a doctor spies on Lady Macbeth while she is praying
Macbeth attributes his new title (Thane of Cawdor) to the witches rather than to it's own actions. What does this tell you about him in Act 1?
He is SUPERSTITIOUS and DOESN'T feel in control of his own destiny (partially also due to a lack of confidence)
What, you egg!
You little weakling! / You pathetic child!
At the beginning of the play, this 'good' king, is in power.
King Duncan
Shake off this sleep, deaths substitute- come and look at death itself
Macbeth (trying to process what he's done)
Macduff was "from his mother's womb untimely ripped" and therefore can and does kill Macbeth, fulfilling the witches prochesy.
TRUE!
Macbeth's emotional state immediately after he kills Duncan may best be described as....
Distraught/Anxious/Panicked
Thou pribbling ill-nurtured knave!
You annoying, poorly raised jerk! / You worthless rude idiot!
The wife of the Thane of Fife is ___________
Lady Macduff
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow... each day creeping slowly after the one before... until the last second of recorded time. And every day showing fools the way to dusty death.
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth cries out to the spirits to "unisex" her because she is distraught over the death of her youngest son
FALSE!
They fled Inverness Castle without explanation
Malcolm and Donalbain (BONUS: to England and Ireland)
O, beware, my lord...; It is the green-eyed monster..."
Be cautious lord, it seems the monster of jealousy has caught your eye (or someone elses)
When Macduff knocks at Macbeth's castle door in Act 2, _______ answers with some welcome comic relief.
The Porter
The Thane of Cawdor must never be allowed to turn against us again. Go see to his IMMEDIATE EXECUTION and give this title to another.
King Duncan
King Duncan is suspicious of Macbeth
FALSE!
List all of the prophecies that Macbeth was exposed to through the weird sisters (BONUS: Indicate Act & Scene)
Act 1 Scene 3- Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, eventually KING
Act 4 Scene 1- Helmet Man: Beware Macduff
- Bloody baby: None of woman born shall harm Macbeth
- Crowned boy holding tree: Macbeth will never be beaten until Great Birnam wood comes to Dunsinane Hill
- Banquo's Ghost and Royal Descendants: Future line of Kings to rule