Luke & Friends Jeopardy!

Act I + Frankenstein

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Act 1, Scene 1 (1. 1. 0 - 8): “A desert place. Thunder and Lightning. Enter three Witches [...] When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?//When the hurlyburly’s done,//When the battle’s lost and won.//That will be ere the set of sun.//Where the place?//Upon the heath.//There to meet with Macbeth” (Shakespeare 11). --Question: Why is thunder, lightning, and rain associated with the witches?

Answer: In this quote between the three witches, it is foreshadowed that one day they will meet again, when the battle is over they will join one another again this time meeting with Macbeth. The witches imply an impending battle and they planning a meeting with Macbeth suggests that Macbeth will be victorious in the battle or else he’d be dead. When they mention that they will meet in thunder, lightning, or in rain suggests that the entire plot will be that of gloom and tragedy.

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Act 1, Scene 2 (1. 2. 36 - 43): “Dismayed not this our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?”//”Yes, as sparrows eagles,//Or the hare the lion.//If I say sooth, I must report they were//As cannons overcharged with double cracks,//So they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe.//Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,” (Shakespeare 13). --Question: What does the metaphor in this passage imply?

Answer: In this Quote, the visuals between predator and prey reflect upon nature’s hierarchy, where sparrows are afraid of eagles as hares are afraid of lions. This comparison shows how Macbeth and Banquo were able to surpass animal fear/instinct and defeat the Norwegians, which, under the circumstances, were considered the predators.

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Act 1, Scene 5 (1. 5. 40 - 57): “The raven himself is hoarse//That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan//Under my battlements. Come, you spirits//That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here//And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full//Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood,//Stop up the access and passage to remorse,//That no compunctious visitings of nature//Shake my fell purpose nor keep peace between//The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,//And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,//Wherever in your sightless substances//You wait on nature’s mischief! Come, thick night,//And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell//That my keen knife see not the wound it makes//Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark//To cry, ‘Hold, hold!’” (Shakespeare 24). --Question: What are the three types of nature that appear in this quote?

Answer: #1. The raven - as an animal, Shakespeare uses its characteristics to represent death and evil, as well as being a messenger. #2. Lady Macbeth wanted to change her basic human anatomy (nature) to be ‘man’ enough to commit the dreadful deed of murdering King Duncan.

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Act 1, Scene 6 (1. 6. 1 - 7): “This castle hath a pleasant seat. The air//Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself//Unto our gentle senses.//This guest of summer,//The temple-haunting martlet, does approve//By his loved mansionry that the heaven’s breath//Smells wooingly here (Shakespeare 26). --Question: How is this quote ironic?

Answer: There is serious irony in this quote in the sense that nature is reflecting on such a pleasant mood/atmosphere, when in reality, the castle contains death for King Duncan.

500

“When night came I quitted my retreat and wandered in the wood; and now, no longer restrained by the fear of discovery, I gave vent to my anguish in fearful howlings.” (Shelley 125). --Question: What is the significance of nature in this quote?

Answer: The point of nature in this quote is that Frankenstein’s creation decided to wait until nighttime before heading out. The significance of nature in this situation would be the fact that nature helps ‘conceal’ things by its night.

Act II + Frankenstein

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Act 2, Scene 1 (2. 1. 41 - 49): “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.//Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible//To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but//A dagger of the mind, a false creation//Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?//I see thee yet, in form as palpable//As this which now I draw” (Shakespeare 36). --Question: How does this quote communicate fear?

Answer: This quote communicates fear by showing how Macbeth is now scared just like any ordinary man. Naturally, humans become terrified in situations where life and death is at stake.

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“No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me.” (Shelley 51). --Question: Who is speaking? How is this quote ironic?

Answer: This quote is narrated by Victor Frankenstein and this is ironic because this is when Victor hasn’t completed creating the creation yet and he feels as if everyone is going to praise him for creating life, he also thinks that wonderful things are going to happen but ironically, the creation causes destruction and despair to society.

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Act 2, Scene 2 (2. 2. 0 - 9): “That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold;//What hath quenched them hath given me fire.//Hark! Peace! It was the owl that shrieked,//The fatal bellman, which gives the sternest good night.//He is about it. The doors are open,//And the surfeited grooms do mock their charge//With snores. I have drugged their possets//That death and nature do contend about them,//Whether they live or die” (Shakespeare 38). --Question: What is the comparison in this quote? What does it represent/mean?

Answer: This quote contains the imagery of an owl, the owl symbolizes night and also compares to the bell that they ring before an execution occurs. This is the same time that Macbeth is in the castle killing King Duncan, this is an ironic imagery and comparison that Lady Macbeth has thought of at that time.

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Act 2, Scene 3 (2. 3. 51-60): “The night has been unruly.//Where we lay, our chimneys were blown down,//And, as they say, lamentings heard in the air,//Strange screams of death,//And, prophesying with accents terrible//Of dire combustion and confused events,//New hatched to the woeful time,// The obscure bird clamoured the livelong night.//Some say the earth was feverous// and did shake (Shakespeare 43). --Question: What was the Imagery in this quote and what did it represent?

Answer: The imagery in this quote was the figurative ‘earth’, they said that the earth was ‘feverous and did shake’ representing a symbol of destruction. When the King was killed, when the ruler has fallen, an exaggeration and imagery of how earth will tremble as a cause of this horrific event.

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Act 2, Scene 2 (2. 2. 70 - 75): “How is it with me, when every noise appals me?//What hands are here? Ha! They pluck out mine eyes!//Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood//Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather//The multitudinous seas incarnadine,//Making the green one red” (Shakespeare 40). --Question: What does ‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood’ mean and represent?

Answer: After the death of King Duncan, Macbeth is now covered in his blood, he can not take back his actions... Neptune’s ocean was to represent how even God can not wash this blood away, this murder Macbeth have caused will forever stay in his heart; His hands will always be covered in golden blood.

Act III + Frankenstein

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"I was scarcely hid when a young girl came running towards the spot where I was concealed, laughing, as if she ran from someone in sport. She continued her course along the precipitous sides of the river, when suddenly her foot slipped, and she fell into the rapid stream. I rushed from my hiding-place and with extreme labour, from the force of the current, saved her and dragged her to shore" (Shelley 130). --Question: Why does the come out of hiding and help the girl?

Answer: It is natural for people to help out others to help each other out when they are in need of help. Nothing connects people like tragedy, nobody could stand and watch another person die without at least thinking of helping.

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Act 3, Scene 1 (3. 1. 106 - 115): “Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men,//As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,//Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are clept//All by the name of dogs. The valued file//Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,//The housekeeper, the unter, every one//According to the gift which bounteous nature//Hath in him closed, whereby he does receive//Particular addition, from the bill//That writes them all alike; and so of men.” (Shakespeare 56). --Question: Is Macbeth insulting the murderer, why or why not?

Answer: In this quote, Macbeth categorizes all of the different breeds of dog under one Genus. Macbeth claims that even though in nature, different kinds of dogs are still classified under the name “Dog”, the same can also apply for men, based on their characteristics and nature.

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Act 3, Scene 2 (3. 2. 15 - 25): “We have scorched the snake, not killed it.//She’ll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice//Remains in danger of her former tooth.//But let the frame of things disjoint,//Both the worlds suffer,//Ere we will eat our meal in fear and sleep//In the affliction of these terrible dreams//That shake us nightly. Better be with the dead,//Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,//Than on the torture of the mind to lie//In restless ecstasy” (Shakespeare 58 - 59). --Question: Who says this quote, and what does it mean?

Answer: In this quote, Macbeth is talking about how, since Fleance has escaped, they have hurt the snake but not killed it. This is because the Weyerd Sisters prophesied that Macbeth shall be king, but will have no descendants that become kings, but Banquo, on the other hand, shall foster kings. Therefore, with Fleance’s escape, it shows that the ‘snake’ will be back for revenge.

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Act 3, Scene 2 (3. 2. 52 - 62): “Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,//Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night,//Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day,//And with thy bloody and invisible hand//Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond//Which keeps me pale! Light thickens,//And the crow makes wing to the rooky wood.//Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,//Whiles night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.//Thou marvellest at my words, but hold thee still.//Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill” (Shakespeare 59). --Question: What mood is nature reflecting in this passage? Support with at least four examples and explain them.

Answer: Macbeth is basically reflecting upon the fact that events will become more ominous, and nature is following suit. Seeling night = blinding a falcon, scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day = blindfold daytime, light thickens = clouds coming in to make day darker, crow makes wing to the rooky wood = Crows gathering to the point where they actually darken the sky, which can be labelled as foreshadowing and imagery by nature. Nice black agents to their preys do rouse = night hunters are coming out (murderers/predators of the night)

500

Act 3, Scene 4 (3. 4. 118 - 126): “What man dare, I dare.//Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,//The armed rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger,//Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves//Shall never tremble. Or be alive again,//And dare me to the desert with thy sword.//If trembling I inhabit then, protest me//The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow!//Unreal mockery, hence!” (Shakespeare 66). --Question: What message is Macbeth sending?

Answer: In this quote Macbeth states that whatever someone else dares do, he could do. Whatever man can do, he can do just as well. Macbeth states that if Banquo had taken any form or shape other than ghost, that his nerves would never waiver. He challenges Banquo to be alive again and challenge him to a duel.

Act IV + Frankenstein

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Act 4, Scene 1 (4. 1. 50 - 61): “I conjure you, by that which you profess//(However you come to know it) answer me.//Though you untie the winds and let them fight//Against the churches,though the yesty waves//Confound and swallow navigation up,//Through bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down,//Though castles topple on their warder’s heads,//Though palaces and pyramids do slope//Their heads to their foundations, though the treasure//of nature’s germens tumble all together//Even till destruction sicken, answer me//To what I ask you” (Shakespeare 76). --Question: How does Macbeth describe his power to the witches?

Answer: He tells the witches of his power in order to belittle them and have them believe that they should serve under him to do as he demands, otherwise he would bring even natural disasters upon them with his power.

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Act 4, Scene 1 (4. 1. 86 - 89): “Be bloody, bold, and resolute.//Laugh to scorn//The power of man for none of woman born//Shall harm Macbeth” (Shakespeare 77).\ --Question: What do the witches mean by “woman born” and why does this reassure Macbeth so much?

Answer: By “woman born” the witches mean anyone born naturally by a mother which means generally no man can defeat Macbeth which is why he thinks he is invincible, even though they warned him of Macduff which he brushed off.

300

“Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength , had become food for the worm.” (Shelley, 38). --Question: How does death affect life?

Answer: Once in death they still provide for the living thus continuing the cycle, where without death there would be no life.

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Act 4, Scene 2 (4. 2. 8 - 16): “Wisdom? To leave his wife, to leave his babes,//His mansion, and his titles, in a place//From whence himself does fly? He loves us not - //He wants the natural touch. For the poor wren,//The most diminutive of birds, will fight,//Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.//All is the fear and nothing is the love,//As little is the wisdom, where the flight//So runs against all reason” (Shakespeare 81). --Question: Why does Lady Macduff describe the situation as when a bird protects her nest from an owl, however against all reason abandons the nest?

Answer: It is because where Macduff should have protected his family except he was fueled by fear and in return Macbeth murders his entire family.

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Act 4, Scene 3 (4. 3. 77-86): “Boundless intemperance//In nature is a tyranny; it hath been//The untimely emptying of the happy throne,//And fall of many kings. But fear not yet//To take upon you what is yours. You may//Convey your pleasures in a spacious plenty//And yet seem cold, the time you may so hoodwink.//We have willing dames enough; there cannot be//That vulture in you, to devour so many//As will to greatness dedicate themselves//Finding it so inclined. ” (Shakespeare 86). --Question: How does nature represent Macbeth in this quote?

Answer: Macbeth assassinated both the king and even his friend, Banquo, in order to gain power himself where he is the vulture and picks off the king and his rivals to protect and sustain himself.

Act V + Frankenstein

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Act 5, Scene 1 (5. 1. 63 - 71): “Foul whisperings are abroad. Unnatural deeds//Do breed unnatural troubles. Infected minds//To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.//More needs she the divine than the physician. //God, God forgive us all! Look after her.//Remove from her the means of all annoyance,//And still keep eyes upon her. S good night.//My mind she has mated and amazed my sight.//I think, but dare not speak” (Shakespeare 95). --Question: What does shakespeare mean when he says “Unnatural deeds//Do breed unnatural troubles.”

Answer: This statement means that if you doing something wrong specifically to someone that is unnatural , there will be a negative result unnaturally impacting the wrongdoer.

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Act 5, Scene 2 (5. 2. 30 - 38): “Well, march we on//To give obedience where ‘tis truly owed.//Meet we the medicine of the sickly weal,//And with him pour we, in our country’s purge,//Each drop of us.//Or so much as it needs//To dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds.//Make we our march towards Birnam” (Shakespeare 97). --Question : What does Lennox mean when he says “To dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds” and how does he use nature imagery to describe the scenes.

Answer: it means that will do anything to protect the king, they will shed as much blood as need be to protect him and stop Macbeth.

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Act 5, Scene 8 (5. 8. 17 - 26): “Despair thy charm,//And let the Angel whom thou still hast served//tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb//Untimely ripped.//Accursed be that tongue that tells me so,//For it hath cowed my better part of man.//And be these juggling fiends no more believed,// That palter with us in a double sense,//That keep the word of promise to our ear//And break it to our hope! I’ll not fight with thee” (Shakespeare 108). --Question: How does nature influence the actions that this character will go on to face.

Answer: The fact that this man was not born naturally from his mother means that he could and would be the one to kill Macbeth. This greatly influencing the plot.

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Act 5, Scene 6 (5.8.1-7): "Now, near enough.//Your leavy screens throw down//And show like those you are. You, worthy uncle,//Shall with my cousin, your right noble son,//Lead our first battle. Worthy Macduff and we//Shall take upon us what else remains to do,// According to our order"(Shakespeare 104). --Question : Where is nature used in this passage and how does it influence the characters?

Answer : Nature is used here as a metaphor for the soldiers when they go surging into battle. at first they were hiding behind there “leafy greens” but they surged through them to fight.

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“What became of me? I know not; I lost sensation, and chains and darkness were the only objects that pressed upon me. Sometimes, indeed, I dreamt that I wandered in flowery meadows and pleasant vales with the friends of my youth...” (Shelley, 138). --Question: Why does he dream of nature in this time of distress for him?

Answer: Once again he turns to nature in order to calm and cure his stress of the world around him where it is all that he can turn to. Nature helps him relieve the problems he faces because of what he has done.