Shakespearean-isms
Characters
Who said it??
True or False
General Knowledge
100

Thou cream-faced loon! 

You pale, scared fool! / You coward!/ You idiot!

100

Macdonwald is cut from the navel to the jaw by __________

Macbeth!

100

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

100

Thane is a Scottish title of nobility, similar to a French duke

TRUE! Roughly similar to a lord or duke

100

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

200
Thou art as fat as butter.

You're out of shape. / You're soft and lazy.

200

This general, ____________, is the best England has to offer

Siward

200

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)

200

In Act 4, a doctor spies on Lady Macbeth while she is praying

FALSE! It is while she is sleep walking
200

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)

300

What, you egg!

You little weakling! / You pathetic child!

300

At the beginning of the play, this 'good' king, is in power.

King Duncan

300

Shake off this sleep, deaths substitute- come and look at death itself

Macbeth (trying to process what he's done)

300

Macduff was "from his mother's womb untimely ripped" and therefore can and does kill Macbeth, fulfilling the witches prochesy.

TRUE!

300

Macbeth's emotional state immediately after he kills Duncan may best be described as....

Distraught/Anxious/Panicked 

400

Thou pribbling ill-nurtured knave!

You annoying,  poorly raised jerk! / You worthless rude idiot!

400

The wife of the Thane of Fife is ___________

Lady Macduff

400

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

400

Lady Macbeth cries out to the spirits to "unisex" her because she is distraught over the death of her youngest son

FALSE!

400

They fled Inverness Castle without explanation 

Malcolm and Donalbain (BONUS: to England and Ireland)

500

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) 

500

When Macduff knocks at Macbeth's castle door in Act 2, _______ answers with some welcome comic relief.

The Porter

500

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

500

King Duncan is suspicious of Macbeth 

FALSE!

500

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 

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