Macbeth
What does Macbeth imagine he sees floating in front of him as he plans to murder Duncan?
a dagger (or knife, or sword)
Lady Macbeth's plan to murder Duncan was...
to get them all drunk and have MAcbeth sneak in and stab Duncan with the guards' swords and blame it on the guards
Who discovers Duncan's dead body?
Macduff
Triple points!
Macbeth is becoming worried that he is cursed. What is the word for being suspicious of everyone and thinking they are all out to get you (starts with a P)
paranoid
TRIPLE POINTS!
I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters.
To you they have showed some truth.
Banquo
DOUBLE POINTS!
Macbeth makes a mistake. After he kills Duncan, he forgets to...
leave the bloody daggers on the guards/servants.
How does Lady Macbeth react when she realizes Macbeth's mistake after the murder?
She's annoyed- she goes and fixes it herself
Now that Duncan is dead, who is SUPPOSED to be king?
Malcolm
When Macbeth declares that he will "sleep no more", it shows he is feeling...
GUILTY
Still it cried 'Sleep no more' to all the house.
'Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor
Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more.'
Macbeth (he thinks he heard a voice saying this)
At the end of Act 2, we learn that Macbeth's new title is...
KING
What does Lady Macbeth pretend to do when Duncan's body is discovered?
faint
Name someone else, besides Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, and Duncan (and his servants), who is at the castle when Duncan is murdered
Banquo, Malcolm, Donalbain, Lennox, the porter
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth act horrified after the murder. This is an example of the theme of...
deception, lying
Double points!!
Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead
Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil.
Lady Macbeth
Macbeth lies to Banquo when he says...
he has forgotten all about the witches
Why isn't Lady Macbeth suspected of the murder?
even hearing about it is too terrible for her "womanly" ears
DOUBLE points!
What is the name of Banquo's son?
Fleance!
Name TWO unnatural events that the old man talks about at the end of Act Two.
-owl killed a falcon
-it's dark during the day
-Duncan's horses ate each other
"O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart/Cannot conceive nor name thee."
Macduff when he discovers Duncan's body
DOUBLE POINTS!
When he "discovers" the dead body of Duncan, what violent thing does Macbeth do and WHY?
murders the guards (who were supposedly the murderers) because he "loved Duncan so much" (also, so they can't tell on him!)
Lady Macbeth says "That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold". What is she talking about?
Getting the guards drunk has made her fired up to commit murder (she may also have had some of the drink herself, for courage).
Double points!!
WHO are Duncan's sons and WHERE do they flee to?
Malcolm- England
Donalbain- Ireland
One theme of the play is violence. How many people has Macbeth killed so far?
3 (Duncan and the guards)
plus many people in battle
DOUBLE POINTS!
To Ireland, I. Our separated fortune /Shall keep us both the safer. Where we are, There's daggers in men's smiles. The near in blood, The nearer bloody.
Donalbain (king's younger son)