Lady MacBeth
What is Lady MacBeth's fatal flaw (as a tragic character)?
Ambition
What was MacBeth’s original title (his hereditary title)?
Thane of Glamis
What characters are the first to appear in the play?
The witches.
Where does MacBeth take place?
Scotland
Who is queen of the witches?
Hecate
Why does Lady MacBeth say SHE can't kill Duncan?
She is a woman or
... he looks like her father!
What title does King Duncan give to MacBeth for bravery in the battle?
What is the Thane of Cawdor.
Who does MacBeth have killed because he thinks they know he killed Duncan?
Banquo
What is said that frightens MacBeth before he is killed by Macduff?
Macduff tells Macbeth that he was ripped from his mother's womb at an untimely moment.
By what 3 titles do the three witches greet MacBeth after battle?
They greet him as Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, and as future King.
How does Lady MacBeth help kill Duncan anyway?
She gets the guards drunk and plants the daggers with blood on them.
How does MacBeth nearly ruin the plan of killing the King?
MacBeth brings the bloody daggers back to Lady MacBeth instead of planting them on the guards.
Which character appears to MacBeth as a ghost?
Banquo
MacBeth compares himself to this animal when his castle is invaded.
A bear
What apparitions are conjured by the witches when MacBeth visits them a second time?
In Act 3 Scene 4, Lady MacBeth asks the dinner guests to leave because ...
MacBeth is hallucinating again seeing Banquo and talking about murders he has committed.
or ... She is trying to protect him from the lords.
What does MacBeth do to the supposed murderers and why?
He kills them in fury.
He claims that in his great fury he killed them without thinking.
Who kills MacBeth?
Macduff
How many murderers were hired by MacBeth to carry out the killing of Banquo and Fleance?
3
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.
How does MacBeth respond when he hears of Lady MacBeth's death?
He says she would have died another time anyway. Death is inevitable.
Why doesn't MacBeth put his armor on when he goes out to do battle with Macduff?
He knows that he can't be killed by a man born of woman.
This person is named King after Macbeth is beheaded in battle.
Malcolm
Lady MacBeth is observed doing what by the Gentlewoman and Doctor?
Sleepwalking/sleeptalking while making gestures of washing her hands.
And talking about the murders that she and MacBeth are a part of.
What significance does each apparition have?
Armed head: Beware Macduff
-Bloody child: No man born of women shall harm
-Child crowned w/ a tree in his hand: Shall never be vanquished until the woods of Birnam comes to Dunsiane.