Characters
Macbeth becomes suspicious of this friend in Act 3.
Banquo
When the audience knows what the character(s) do not.
Dramatic irony
Macdonwald, Thane of Cawdor, is killed early in the first scenes of the play for committing what crime?
He was a traitor to Scotland.
Who said it?:
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”
The Weird Sisters
Unlike the fictional Macbeth, the real Macbeth was not a _________.
Tyrant/murderer
This person should have been the King of Scotland, and ultimately is.
Malcolm
A character shares their innermost thoughts with the audience.
Soliloquy
He hallucinates a dagger (likely representing the bloody course on which he is about to embark) and Banquo's ghost (likely representing his guilt for Banquo's death).
Who said it?
"Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee:
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still."
Macbeth
The effect people in the Elizabethan era thought witches had politically.
Toppling the monarchy
Leader of the witches
Hecate
A character speaks aloud, but cannot be heard by the other characters.
Aside
Malcolm and Donalbain; they flee for their own lives.
Who said it?:
"What's done cannot be undone."
Lady Macbeth
The real Macbeth killed Duncan because __________.
Duncan had invaded his kingdom
Young warrior who is slain by Macbeth in Act 5.
Young Siward
A release, and relief, from intense emotion.
Catharsis
According to Shakespeare Uncovered, a major theme explored in Macbeth.
Is evil the result of external or internal forces?
Who said it?:
"Screw your courage to the sticking place."
The actress Charlotte Cushman, who was very tall and had a deep voice, played Lady Macbeth in this way: _____________.
Threatening, domineering, aggressive
Cat belonging to one of the witches.
Greymalkin
When vowels are omitted from words, for poetic effect (ex. "e'er").
Elision
Name each of the three apparitions, name each of their prophecies, and explain how each prophecy comes true.
An armored head says "Beware Macduff." This foreshadows Macduff's defeat of Macbeth. A bloody child says "No man born of a woman shall harm Macbeth." This foreshadows Macduff's revelation that he was "ripped from the womb untimely." The third apparition, a crowned child with a tree, says that Macbeth is safe until "Birnam Wood ascends Dunsinane Hill." This foreshadows Malcolm's army using branches from Birnam Wood as a defense strategy in the war.
Who said it?:
"Be this the whetstone of your sword: let grief convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it."
Malcolm
The year Macbeth was published.
1623