The Witches
In Act V scene 8 the audience learns how the witches' final prediction comes true. How is it that Macbeth, who has to fear "none of woman born," can be harmed by Macduff?
What is that Macduff was delivered by C-section?
In Act V scene 5 Macbeth hears of the death of Lady Macbeth. How does he react?
What is that he barely reacts; he only says that she wishes she had better timing?
What does Lady Macbeth hallucinate while sleepwalking in V.1?
What are spots of blood on her hands?
Banquo believes Macbeth is still his ally, but the audience knows that Macbeth is plotting Banquo's murder. This is an example of which dramatic device?
What is dramatic irony?
"Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?" (II.1.41-42).
Who is Macbeth?
When Banquo asks the witches to talk about him, they say he is "lesser than Macbeth, and greater. Not so happy, yet much happier. [He] shalt get kings, thou [he] be none." What does this mean?
What is that Banquo's descendants will be kings?
How does Macbeth react to the ghost of Banquo in Act III scene 4?
What is he is horrified and starts going crazy with guilt, which upsets his guests?
Why was Lady Macbeth unable to kill the king herself?
What is he looked too much like her father?
In Act III scene 3 the murderers attempt to carry out the plan that Macbeth has orchestrated. What goes wrong with the plan?
What is Banquo dies, but Fleance escapes?
"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" (I.4.41-44).
Who is Lady Macbeth?
What line from the Witches in Act I tells us it's going to be difficult to tell good from evil throughout the play?
What is, "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" (1.1.11)?
How does Macbeth convince the murderers to kill Banquo?
What is he tells them that their misfortune is Banquo's fault?
In Act V scene 1 a doctor and gentlewoman watch and listen to Lady Macbeth while she is sleepwalking. What does Lady Macbeth reveal?
What is that Macbeth is guilty of murder?
What announcement does Duncan make that leads Macbeth to realize being King will be more difficult than he thought?
What is Duncan names Malcolm the Prince of Cumberland, so he's the next heir?
"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes" (IV.1.44-45).
Who are the Weird Sisters/Witches?
In Act V scene 4 the audience learns how one of the witches prophesies will come true. How does Birnam Wood come to Dunsinane Hill?
What is that the rebels carry branches from the trees to hide their numbers?
What are Macbeth's 3 titles?
What are the Thane of Cawdor, Thane of Glamis, and King?
In Act III scene 2 Macbeth and Lady Macbeth discuss their improved situation as king and queen. How has their relationship changed since the beginning of the play?
What is that they've grown apart; Macbeth is now making more of the plans and not sharing them with Lady Macbeth?
When a character whispers aloud to themselves so that other characters cannot hear what they are saying is what dramatic device?
What is an aside?
"Tyrant, show thy face! If thou beest slain and with no stroke of mine, my wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still" (V.7.18-20).
Who is Macduff?
In Act IV scene 1 Macbeth returns to the witches, and the witches summon four apparitions that deliver more prophesies to Macbeth. What are the first three of the apparitions (in the order in which they appear)?
What are an armed head, a bloody child, and a crowned child with a branch in his hand?
In Act V scene 5 Macbeth delivers some of the most famous lines from the play: "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 does this mean?
What is that life is meaningless and then you die and are forgotten?
In Act II scene 3, as Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are preparing for the murder of Duncan, Lady Macbeth says, "What hath made them drunk hath made me bold; what hath quenched them hath given me fire?" What does she mean?
What is that the liquor that made Duncan's guards drunk has given her the courage to commit the deed?
What kind of character is the porter?
What is a character that offers comedic relief to the play?
"My thanes and kinsmen, henceforth be Earls, the first that ever Scotland in such an honor named" (V.8.72-74).
Who is Malcolm?