Act I
What happens to the Thane of Cawdor and why?
He is executed for being a traitor
What is the signal to tell Macbeth the guards are drugged?
What is a ringing bell?
What did Macbeth see at the banquet table?
What is Banquo's ghost?
After hearing the apparitions, what does Macbeth decide to do upon impulse?
The doctor and gentlewoman observe Lady Macbeth doing these 2 strange things
What is sleepwalking and confessing to murder (pretending to wash her hands)?
When a character speaks to the audience without the other characters hearing them.
What is an aside?
Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown And put a barren scepter in my grip, Thence to be wrenched with an unilineal hand
What do the witches predict for Macbeth and Banquo? (3 total prophecies)
What is Macbeth will be Thane of Cawdor and King of Scotland and Banquo's descendants will be King.
What is Macbeth's lie to Banquo about the witches?
What is he never thinks of them?
How Does Macbeth plan to kill Banquo and Fleance? Is it successful?
What is hire two murderers who kill Banquo, but Fleance gets away?
Name the SECOND Apparition
What is: Anyone born of Woman Can't Harm Macbeth.
How are the woods able to move to Macbeth's castle?
What is each soldier took a branch from the trees in order to blend in.
Macbeth is an example of this type of hero.
What is a Tragic Hero?
"What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won."
What is: Thane of Cawdor lost and Macbeth gained a new title. As spoken by King Duncan
This is Lady Macbeth's plan for King Duncan.
What is drugging the guards (or getting the guards drunk so they pass out), so Macbeth can kill the king while he sleeps?
What excuse did Lady Macbeth give for not killing Duncan herself?
What is he looked like her father?
How does Lady Macbeth explain Macbeth's behavior at the banquet?
What is has often had these fits since he was a child
Ross is the bearer of this news to Macduff?
What is Macduff's family has been killed?
He becomes King of Scotland when Macbeth dies?
Who is Malcolm?
Can you name one symbol and what is represents? Can you name one theme?
What is: Blood = Guilt, Weather= Corruption in Nature, Sleep= Restoration and Purity, Hands= ability and responsibility for actions, Daggers= conscience and murder
Themes- Guilt, Fate vs. Free Will, Ambition and Power, Greed.
"...have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner?"
What is: Are we hallucinating? As spoken by Banquo.
The statement "Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair" means?
What is what is fair is actually foul and what is foul is actually fair. It is an example of a Paradox.
What is a dagger?
Why does Macbeth want to visit the witches again?
What is to find out what is destiny as King is. He states he has already waded through enough blood. There is no turning back.
Name the FIRST Apparition
What is Beware Of Macduff.
Macbeth realizes he has been tricked by the witches and will die when Macduff tells him this piece of information.
What is Macduff tells him he was born by c-section?
When King Duncan pays a visit Macbeth, he is unaware that Macbeth is plotting to kill him, which is an example of this form of literary irony.
What is dramatic irony?
Come, you spirits- That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood,
Stop up th’access and passage to remorse.
What is: Removing Lady Macbeth's feminine aspects to make way for aggression, gall, and little remorse. Spoken by Lady Macbeth.
This character tells Macbeth:
"Look like th' innocent flower, But be the serpent under't."
Who is Lady Macbeth?
What does this mean? “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?”
Macbeth is being consumed by guilt and is wondering if all of the water of the ocean will be able to rid him of his deed.
Why is the Porter important?
What is the Porter provides comic relief and for the stage to be reset. Gather enough people for the next scene. Allow Macbeth to cleanse himself.
Name the THIRD Apparition
What is a child with a crown and a branch - Have no fear until the Great Birnam Wood moves to Dunsinane Hill.
Macbeth dies in Act V, but not before killing this character.
Who is the Young Siward?
Upon learning of Lady Macbeth's suicide in Act V, Scene 5, Macbeth begins speaking the most famous words from the play...
"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow / Creeps in this petty pace of day to day... "
A speech like this is more commonly referred to by this literary term in a Shakespearian play.
What is a soliloquy?
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.
Life is brief, meaningless and pointless. As spoken by Macbeth.