Lady Macbeth
How does Lady Macbeth help kill Duncan?
She gets the guards drunk and plants the daggers with blood on them
Who is Macbeth's closest ally while in battle?
Who is Banquo?
Macbeth and Banquo share the same profession, as...
What are knights/soldiers/thanes?
Where does Macbeth take place?
What is "Scotland?"
Who convinces Macbeth to go through with the murder?
Who is Lady Macbeth?
Why does Lady Macbeth say she can't kill King Duncan?
She says that he looks like her father.
What is Macbeth's lie about the guards?
He killed them because he was so "furious" about the death of King Duncan.
The real name for the three witches in the play is actually...
What are "the weird sisters?"
Macbeth is which kind of play:
A History
A Comedy
A Tragedy
What is a tragedy?
This is what are Macbeth and Lady Macbeth going to do Duncan's guards before the murder.
What is "get them so drunk/give them poison?"
This speedy word is the phrase that Lady Macbeth uses to describe what she would do to the "brains of [her] baby" to get what she wanted.
What is "dash?"
Besides his physical strength, Macbeth succumbs to the temptation of power because he is easily...
What happens to the original Thane of Cawdor before Macbeth receives his title?
What century/centuries does Macbeth take place in?
What is 10th/11th/12th century?
What mistake does Macbeth make after killing the king?
He is walking around with the Guard's daggers still in his hands.
She faints because she is "surprised" about the king's death when in reality she has plotted the murder almost single handedly.
What title does Macbeth have before his encounter with the Weird Sisters?). He is the thane of...
What is "Glamis?"
Name one of the king's two sons.
Who are Malcolm and Donalbain?
What does Banquo say he has had to deal with at the start of Act 2, Scene 1?
What is a nightmare?
What does Macbeth see floating in front of him in Act 2, Scene 1?
What is a floating dagger?
Lady Macbeth is concerned that Macbeth is too "full of the milk of human..." to commit the murder of King Duncan.
What is kindness?
What is one of the two reasons that Macbeth tells himself as to why he SHOULD NOT commit the murder of the king?
1. He is a knight sworn to protect the king, whom many people love.
2. The king is a guest in his house, and Macbeth is taking advantage of the king's vulnerability.
Name two of King Duncan's soldiers OTHER than Macbeth.
Ross, Lennox, Angus, Macduff, Banquo.
The idea that finally convinces Macbeth to commit the murder of King Duncan is that he will follow THIS "vaulting" idea of goal setting.
What is "Ambition?"
This is the reason that Lady Macbeth feels as though she cannot be the one to go through will killing the king (besides the familial similarities)
What is "the fact that she is a woman."
Evidence: "Unsex me here," Act 1, Scene 5.