Macbeth Plot
Hearing this changes Macbeth from a generally good guy to a paranoid, overly ambitious murderer.
What is the prophecy?
Murdered halfway through the play, his descendants are destined to be kings.
Who is Banquo?
The witches, apparitions, and ghosts are evidence of this theme in the play.
What is the supernatural?
"Double, double, toil and trouble" is part of a magic spell cast by these characters.
Who are the witches?
The country the Scotland is at war with in the beginning of the play.
What is Norway?
Macbeth leaves Duncan's chambers covered in this, which we later see Lady Macbeth trying to wash off her hands in her sleep.
"No man of woman born," who gets revenge for the slaughter of his family by killing Macbeth.
Who is Macduff?
Banquo's fear at the beginning of Act 3 that Macbeth "plays't most foully for" the throne shows that he is aware that Macbeth has committed what act?
What is regicide?
Macbeth gives his famous soliloquy which includes the lines "Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury" after hearing that this tragic even has occurred.
What is the death of Lady Macbeth?
This is the name of the play used by performing actors, as it is apparently bad luck to say the play's title of "Macbeth" in a theatre.
What is "The Scottish Play"?
During a feast, Macbeth worries his generals by acting very strangely because he sees this recently deceased figure sitting in his chair.
Who is Banquo?
The rightful heir to the Scottish throne who escapes to England after his father is murdered.
Who is Malcolm?
The concept, highlighted by the witches' prophecy, which Macbeth finds beneficial in the first act of the play and terrifying in the second act.
What is fate?
When Lady Macbeth cries "Out, damned spot!" she is also doing this.
What is sleepwalking OR acting like she is washing her hands?
These 2 characters switch roles by the end of the play.
Who is Macbeth and Lady Macbeth?
Macbeth is told he doesn't have to worry about being defeated until this shows up at his castle.
What is Birnam Wood/the woods/trees?
This character appears briefly in Act 4 to lament the leaving of her husband before she is murdered off stage by Macbeth's men.
Who is Lady Macduff?
Lady Macbeth appeals to the spirits to "fill her from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty," making her more stereotypically like this.
What is a man?
The role Macbeth is referring to with the word "thus" in the quote "To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus."
What is the king?
Another name for the witches in Macbeth.
Who are the Weird Sisters?
After seeing the three apparitions during his second visit to the witches, Macbeth asks for more information and sees this, which greatly upsets him.
What is a vision of Banquo's descendants as kings?
This apparition appears to tell Macbeth that none of woman born shall harm him.
What is the bloody child?
The allusion comparing Macbeth to Lucifer, who overstepped his bounds and suffered the consequences, highlights the dangers of this theme.
What is ambition?
The character Malcolm is referring to when he says "He hath a heavenly blessing hang about his throne that speak him full of grace."
Who is the King of England?
DAILY DOUBLE!!! Betrayed his country in the beginning of the play by committing treason.
Who is the Thane of Cawdor?