Plot
Macbeth's title at the start of the play.
What is 'Thane of Glamis"?
The titular character.
Who is Macbeth?
When a character reveals their thought process to the audience.
What is a soliloquy?
The witches' mission statement.
What is 'Fair is foul, and foul is fair'?
Who is King James?
Lesser than Macbeth and greater.
Who is Banquo?
Hamartia.
What is a tragic hero's fatal flaw?
A motif representing guilt.
What is blood?
Lady Macbeth's advice on how to deceive.
What is 'look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.’?
The killing of a king.
What is regicide?
The original Thane of Cawdor, King Duncan, King Duncan's guards, and Young Siward.
Who does Macbeth kill with his own hands?
Malcolm.
Who is the rightful heir to King Duncan?
Macduff's structural role in the play.
What is a "character foil"?
These people cannot kill Macbeth.
Who are 'No man of woman born'?
The hierarchy determining the order of all things.
What is the Great Chain of Being?
What are the witches' prophecies in Act 4?
Who is the Greek goddess of witchcraft?
Or...Who is in charge of the witches?
Storms and cannibalistic horses
What are signs that the Great Chain of Being has been disturbed?
What is "But I must feel it as a man."
Random arbiter of people's lives.
Who is the Roman Goddess Fortuna?
Scone.
Where are new kings crowned?
Lady Macduff's cousin.
Who is Ross?
A symbol of power without succession.
What is a 'fruitless crown'?
Macbeth's response to Lady Macbeth's death.
What is "She should have died hereafter."?
The right of succession by which an estate is past down to the first born son.
What is male primogeniture?