Quotes
Who said "Fair is foul and foul is fair" AND what literary device is evident in the quote?
Who are the Weird Sisters/the Witches AND what is a paradox?
What does Macbeth do to the supposed murderers of Duncan and why?
What is He kills them in fury. He claims that in his great fury he killed them without thinking.
This action symbolizes Lady Macbeth's inability to rid herself of the guilt she feels over the murder of Duncan and so many others.
"Go, pronounce his present death, and with his former title, greet Macbeth."
Who is King Duncan?
What happens that causes Macbeth to question becoming king?
What is Malcolm becomes the Prince of Cumberland.
Explain how the use of asides helped Shakespeare to create dramatic irony in this play.
AND
Give an example of a time this happened in the play.
Asides allow the audience to know the inner, private thoughts of the character so that the audience knows what the character's plans or true intentions are.
Give an example!!
In the beginning of play, one of the witches is angry with a sailor's wife. Why?
AND
What does she do in order to get revenge on the wife?
She wouldn't share her chestnuts with the witch.
The witch tortured her husband, who was at sea.
"If you can look into the seeds of time and say grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me..."
Who is Banquo?
What literary devices are evident in the Witches' prophecies for Banquo: 'Lesser than Macbeth, and greater. Not so happy, yet much happier. Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none'?
Paradoxes.
What are two of the witches' apparitions and what do they symbolize?
1. The bloody baby which symbolizes that no person woman born can kill him.
2. A child holding a tree symbolizes that he will never be defeated until Birnham Wood moves.
3. An armored head who says "Beware Macduff".
"The Thane of Cawdor lives. Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?"
Who is Macbeth?
Who does Macbeth have killed because he thinks he knows he killed Duncan?
What is Banquo!
The porteris the star of which scene?
The comic relief scene.
Who is queen of the witches?
What is Hecate
"Oftentimes, to win us harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths..."
Who is Banquo?
Who says this about Macbeth?"Yet do I fear nature; It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way"
AND What literary device is "the milk of human kindness"?
Who is Lady Macbeth
AND
metaphor
What literary device is used three times in this quote?
metaphor
How is the prophesy of Birnam Wood moving to Dusinane Hill fulfilled?
What is Each man in the English force cuts down a bough to provide cover so that the size of the army is not known.