Act 1
This traitor joined Norway to try and defeat Duncan
Who is the Thane of Cawdor?
Macbeth sees this on his way to kill Duncan
What is a dagger?
When Macbeth says, "To be thus is nothing,/ But to be safely thus" THUS means this
What is "king"?
Banquo telling Macbeth that the prophecies might be a trick the Weird Sisters are playing on him for dark purposes is an example of this theme
What is appearance vs. reality?
"Come, thick night,/And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,/That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,/Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark/ To cry “Hold, hold!”" refers to this symbol/motif
What is night and evil?
This person says "so fair and foul a day I have not seen" at the end of the war
Who is Macbeth?
Macbeth forgets to do this after he kills Duncan
What is plant the bloody knives on the guards
Lady Macbeth says, "’Tis safer to be that which we destroy/Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy" which suggest this
What is better to be dead like Duncan instead of worrying when they'll be caught?
Macbeth says he will kill Banquo and his son Fleance, even though Banquo's prophecy said Fleance would be king illustrates this theme
What is fate vs. free will?
"Bear welcome in your eye,/Your hand, your tongue. Look like th’ innocent flower,/But be the serpent under ’t" is this person's advice
Who is Lady Macbeth?
"What are these,/So withered, and so wild in their attire,/ That look not like th’ inhabitants o’ th’ Earth
And yet are on ’t?" says Banquo about what he sees
Who are the Weird Sisters?
Lady Macbeth does this to distract the men when Macbeth makes a stupid move
What is faint/pass out?
This is what Macbeth sees at dinner
What is Banquo's ghost?
Macbeth isn't sure if he should do nothing, or kill Duncan to become king
What is fate vs. free will?
Macbeth worries "that we but teach/ Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return/To plague th’ inventor" which means this
What is he thinks killing Duncan will start a king killing trend (or a similar answer)
Lady Macbeth says "Hie thee hither,/That I may pour my spirits in thine ear/ And chastise with the valor of my tongue/All that impedes thee from the golden round" and it means she wants to do this
Persuade Macbeth to do what it takes to become king (i.e. kill Duncan)
"sore labor’s bath,/Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,/Chief nourisher in life’s feast" are all descriptions of this
What is sleep?
Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth "Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,/Till thou applaud the deed" about this
What is Banquo's murder?
Macbeth is not sleeping illustrates this theme
What is consequences of greed and amibition?
"Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood/
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather/ The multitudinous seas incarnadine,/ Making the green one red" implies that Macbeth feels this
What is guilty?
One way Lady Macbeth convinces her husband to kill Duncan
What is (any of the following): calls him a coward; says when he wanted to do it he was a man; says she would have followed through with what she says she'll do; tells him with confidence they will not fail; tells him she'll take care of it
"The night has been unruly. Where we lay,/
Our chimneys were blown down and, as they say,/
Lamentings heard i’ th’ air, strange screams of
death" illustrate this symbolism/motif
what is natural vs. unnatural?
What is alive/ a human?
Act 3: "Why do you make such faces? When all’s done,/
You look but on a stool" reflect this theme
Act 3, scene 4: "I am in blood/Stepped in so far that,/ should I wade no more,/ Returning were as tedious as go o’er" implies that Macbeth feels this about being evil