Quote IDs
Meaning of Phrases
Shakespeare's Intentions
Guess the Character!
Miscellaneous
100
"That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold;" (Shakespeare; 33).
What is Lady Macbeth?
100
"Against the undivulged presence I fight of treasonous malice" (Shakespeare, 40).
What is Banquo is suggesting that someone had a secret plot against the King, and he is ready to find justice?
100
The reason behind why Shakespeare included the scene with the drunk porter following Duncan's murder.
What is comic relief?
100
He discovers and announces the King's dead body.
What is Macduff?
100
The meaning of threescore and ten.
What is 70 years?
200
"Who could refrain, that had a heart to love, and in that heart courage to make's love known?" (Shakespeare, 40).
What is Macbeth?
200
"No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red." (Shakespeare,35).
What is the all the waters in the oceans cannot wash away Macbeth's blood/guilt.
200
The reason behind why Shakespeare included many references to 'Hell' in the Porter's dialogue.
What is alluding to Macbeth's crime and damnation?
200
He flees to England after the death of his father.
What is Malcolm?
200
The meaning behind Lady Macbeth's saying, "These deeds must not be thought after these ways; so, it will make us mad" (Shakespeare, 34).
What is they must not dwell and look back on their actions?
300
"Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell" (Shakespeare; 33).
What is Macbeth?
300
"'Sleep no more! Macbeth doth murder sleep'" (Shakespeare, 34).
What is Macbeth won't be able to sleep anymore due to his guilt for the murder.
300
The reason behind why Duncan's horses escape and ate each other.
What is nature itself was rebelling against the injustice of Duncan's murder?
300
He flees to Ireland after the death of his father.
What is Donalbain?
300
The person who tells Malcolm and Donalbain of their father's murder.
What is Macduff?
400
"Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight with a new Gorgon." (Shakespeare, 38).
What is Macduff?
400
"Most sacrilegious Murder hath broke ope the Lord's anointed temple and stole thence the life o' the building" (Shakespeare, 38).
What is someone has taken the life of the King, who was believed to have been anointed by God?
400
Shakespeare's intentions behind including a conversation between an Old Man and Ross.
What is setting an ominous mood which corresponds to Macbeth's recent murder?
400
He has a conversation with the old man discussing how Duncan's best horses went wild along with other ominous events.
What is Ross?
400
Macbeth's saying of, "Sleep no more!", is a reference to a previous quote said by which character(s).
What is the Witches?
500
"Where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down, and, as they say, lamenting heard i' the air, strange screams of death, and prophesying with accents terrible of dire combustion and confused events new hatch'd to the woeful time" (Shakespeare, 37).
What is Lennox?
500
"Hours dreadful and things strange, but this sore night hath trifled former knowings" (Shakespeare, 41).
What is the murder of Duncan has made previous events look insignificant due to its horror?
500
The intention behind including the world 'lie' in, "I believe drink gave thee the lie last night." (Shakespeare, 37).
What is comic relief/a pun on the word lie/lye?
500
He compares Macbeth's castle to the gates of hell.
What is the porter?
500
The purpose of the quote, "A falcon towering in her pride of place was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd" (Shakespeare, 41).
What is an unnatural murder that may have been provoked by witches (due to the reference to animals)?
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