Act I
Beheaded by MacDuff.
What happens to the Thane of Cawdor?
A ringing bell is used for this signal.
What is the signal to tell Macbeth the guards are drugged?
Banquo's ghost.
What did Macbeth see at the banquet table?
The murderer of Lady MacDuff and her children shows this.
What is Macbeth is so evil that he cannot redeem himself?
The doctor and gentlewoman observe Lady Macbeth doing these 2 strange things.
What is sleepwalking and confessing to murder (pretending to wash her hands)?
An aside.
What is when a character speaks to the audience to reveal their thoughts?
'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 is Macbeth has no children and no one to inherit the crown?
The Witches provide these three prophecies
What is Macbeth will be Thane of Cawdor and King of Scotland and Banquo's descendants will be King?
Macbeth never thinks of these beings.
What is Macbeth's lie to Banquo?
How Does Macbeth plan to kill Banquo and Fleance? Is it successful?
What is hire two murderers who kill Banquo, but Fleance gets away?
These three prophecies manipulate Macbeth's ambition, his hamartia.
What is The First Apparition: "Beware Macduff; Beware the Thane of Fife." The Second Apparition: "none of women born Shall harm Macbeth." The Third Apparition: "be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care who chafes, who frets… until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane Hill /Shall come against him [Macbeth]."?
Birnam Wood walks.
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?
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?
Because he looked like her sleeping father.
Why couldn't Lady Macbeth kill Duncan?
My lord is often thus,/And hath been from his youth. Pray you, keep seat./The fit is momentary; upon a thought/He will again be well.
What is Lady Macbeth's excuse for Macbeth's erratic behaviour?
'By the pricking of my thumbs/Something wicked this way comes'
What is the witches announcing Macbeth's arrival?
The rightful King of Scotland.
Who is Malcolm?
Sleep, Weather, Daggers, Nature
What are symbols?
"...have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner?"
What is are we hallucinating?
Fair is foul and foul is fair
What is the witches first paradox?
Macbeth imagines his guilt.
What is a dagger?
'Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep'
What is the symbol of sleep?
Ross.
Who tells MacDuff that his family is dead?
Macduff was "from his mother's womb / Untimely ripped"
What is Macduff's line to Macbeth before he kills him?
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 Lady Macbeth is asking supernatural spirits to remove her most feminine characteristics to make her more masculine?
This character tells Macbeth:
"Look like th' innocent flower, But be the serpent under't."
Who is Lady Macbeth?
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?”
What is 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?
'O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!'
What is a metaphor?
“O Scotland, Scotland!”
What is MacDuff despairs for the fate of Scotland when Malcolm tests him?
A scream is heard.
What happened to Lady Macbeth?
'Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,/Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,/To the last syllable of recorded time;/And all our yesterdays have lighted fools/The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!/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.'
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.
What is life is brief, meaningless and pointless?