Witches
There are this many witches
What are 3?
Macbeth shows his curiosity and ambition about becoming king when he does this in scene 3:
What is questions the witches about the prophecies while also being interested and wanting to know more? What is questions himself and whether he should take the prophecy seriously?
In scene 5 Lady Macbeth says, "too full o' th' milk of human kindness." She is saying Macbeth lacks this:
What is enough cruelty to murder the king?
What is Scotland?
Banquo's relationship to Macbeth
What is his friend and fellow soldier?
This line, "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" means this:
What are things and people are not always what they seem? What are good is bad and bad is good?
In scene 7 Macbeth says, "To plague th' inventor. This even-handed justice / Commends th' ingredience of our poisoned chalice / To our own lips. He's here in double trust." These lines reveal Macbeth's this:
What is the fear of being punished for killing Duncan? (They're poisoning themselves with the same cup.)
HE makes Lady Macbeth aware that Duncan is coming to her castle:
Who is the messenger?
The names of King Duncan's two sons.
Who are Malcolm and Donalbain?
In scene 3 Banquo says, "And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths, / Win us with honest trifles, to betray 's, / In deepest consequence." This can best mean this:
What is warn Macbeth about the witches prophecies and that they may be luring him into a trap or will cause him harm?
In Scene 1, the witches' scene is literally important for this reason
What is it introduces the witches and supernatural elements?
This is the primary purpose for Macbeth's letter to Lady Macbeth in Scene 5.
What is to tell her about the witches' predictions?
What is dramatic irony?
King Duncan's castle is located here.
What is Forres?
The witches make this prediction about Banquo's future:
What is his heirs will become kings?
The witches are described as having this unique feature.
What is beards?
THIS theme goes along with this line, "False face must hide what the false heart doth know."
What is "Fair is foul and foul is fair?"
Lady Macbeth asks the dark spirits to do THIS to her to take away her mortal feelings:
What is "unsex me here"? What is take away everything that makes her a woman?
Duncan is talking about THIS man when he says, "There's no art / To find the mind's construction in the face. He was a gentleman on whom I built / An absolute trust."
Who is the Thane of Cawdor? (RIP)
THIS is Banquo's rank:
What is Lord/Thane?
The witches tell Macbeth is he will become these in the future:
What are the Thane of Cawdor and King of Scotland?
THIS is where Macbeth's castle is located:
Where is Inverness?
THIS is Lady Macbeth's plan to murder Duncan:
What is get Duncan's guards drunk, stab Duncan, and then blame the guards?
This man is Duncan's son whom he's just made heir to the throne:
Who is Malcolm? (Donalbain is also his son but he has not yet been named as heir.)
Mrs. Van Tassel's daughters' names.
Who are Fiona and Ella?