The Supernatural
Who the witches represent.
What are the fates?
Finish the quote: "Wake Duncan with thy knocking..."
I would thou couldst.
"Here's the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh!"
What is hyperbole?
Something Shakespeare uses in his play to reflect the mood and symbolize the unnatural events taking place.
What is the weather?
A Scottish Thane corrupted by greed and ambition who becomes king and rules with violence and tyranny.
Who is Macbeth?
Who Macbeth sees during the banquet. (This causes him to go a bit mad.)
Who is the Ghost of Banquo?
Who said, "Screw your courage to the sticking place"?
Who is Lady Macbeth?
"Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble."
What is rhyme?
Blood is symbolic of this.
What is guilt?
Who is Banquo?
The witches promise these titles to Macbeth.
What is the Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, and King of Scotland?
What does Lady Macbeth mean when she says, "Naught's had, all's spent" ?
She has given up everything and received nothing.
"All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!"
What is symbol?
It turns bloody.
Macduff flees to this place at the end of Act 3.
What is England?
Banquo warns that the witches have told tiny truths in order to...
betray them with the big things.
This person says, "Oh full of scorpions is my mind."
Who is Macbeth?
"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day."
What is alliteration?
This symbolizes good and evil.
What is light and darkness?
Why doesn't Lady Macbeth kill Duncan herself?
He looks like her father.
The witches leader. She is upset that they are tormenting Macbeth without her.
Who is Hecate?
Lady Macbeth says she would rather kill her own child than do this.
"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?"
What is allusion?
This is symbolic of peace, purity, and innocence.
What is sleep?
Duncan names this person the Prince of Cumberland- heir to the throne.
Who is Malcolm?