Act I
This is what happens to the original Thane of Cawdor, and it happens because...
What is "He is executed for being a traitor"?
This is the signal to tell Macbeth the guards are drugged and it is time to do the deed.
What is a ringing bell?
This was the last "guest" to arrive at Macbeth's banquet.
What is Banquo's ghost?
These are two specific flaws which Malcolm claims to have when talking to MacDuff.
What is lusty and greedy?
The doctor and gentlewoman observe Lady Macbeth engaging in this strange behavior.
What is sleepwalking?
Also sleep talking and washing her hands.
When a character speaks to the audience without the other characters on stage hearing them.
What is an aside?
"If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir."
Who is Macbeth?
These are the witches main predictions for Macbeth and Banquo. (3 total prophecies)
What is Macbeth will be Thane of Cawdor and King of Scotland and Banquo's descendants will be King?
This is the last person that Macbeth speaks to before he kills the king.
Who is Banquo?
This is how Macbeth deals with Banquo and Fleance, but the plans go awry.
What is hire two murderers who kill Banquo, but Fleance gets away?
This is who the witches are referring to when they say "something wicked this way comes"?
Who is Macbeth?
This is how Macbeth dies.
What is Macduff beheads him?
Macbeth is an example of this type of hero.
What is a Tragic Hero?
"What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won."
Who is King Duncan?
This is Lady Macbeth's plan for King Duncan.
What is drugging the guards (or getting the guards drunk so they pass out), so Macbeth can kill the king while he sleeps?
This is Lady Macbeth's excuse for not killing Duncan herself.
What is he looked like her father?
This is how Lady Macbeth explains Macbeth's behavior at the banquet.
What is "he has often had these fits since he was a child"?
Ross is the bearer of this news to Macduff?
What is Macduff's family has been killed?
This person becomes the King of Scotland at the end of the play.
Who is Malcolm?
This type of irony exists in the following line:
MACDUFF: "Oh gentle lady...the repetition in a woman's ear would murder as it fell."
What is verbal irony? Macduff is telling Lady Macbeth about the murder without actually telling her (and she is not exactly a gentle lady).
"And oftentimes, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray us in deepest consequence."
Who is Banquo?
Known for saying "Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair."
Who are the witches?
This imaginary object leads Macbeth to Duncan's chamber.
What is a dagger?
This person is notably absent from the banquet.
Who is Macduff?
In Act IV, Macduff has sought refuge here and is eager to help this person.
Where is England and to help Malcolm?
Macbeth realizes he has been tricked by the witches and will die when Macduff tells him this piece of information.
What is Macduff tells him he was born by c-section?
When King Duncan pays a visit Macbeth, he is unaware that Macbeth is plotting to kill him, which is an example of this form of literary irony.
What is dramatic irony?
“Naught's had, all's spent, where our desire is got without content. "Tis safer to be that which we destroy than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.”
Who is Lady Macbeth?
This character tells Macbeth:
"Look like th' innocent flower, But be the serpent under't."
Who is Lady Macbeth?
This person is the first to discover Duncan's dead body.
Who is Macduff?
This is why Hecate was unhappy with her fellow witches.
What is "she was left out of the plans to ruin Macbeth"?
The bloody child apparition is associated with this prophecy?
What is "None of woman born shall harm Macbeth"?
Macbeth dies in Act V, but not before killing this character.
Who is the Young Siward?
Upon learning of Lady Macbeth's suicide in Act V, Scene 5, Macbeth begins speaking the most famous words from the play...
"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow / Creeps in this petty pace of day to day... "
A speech like this (when a character is alone on stage) is more commonly referred to by this literary term in a Shakespearian play.
What is a soliloquy?
“To Ireland, I. Our separated fortune shall keep us both the safer. Where we are, there's daggers in men's smiles. The near in blood, the nearer bloody.”
Who is Donalbain?