Act 1
The play opens with thunder and lightning. What is this an example of?
Pathetic Fallacy
Act 2 starts with Macbeth hallucinating a...
dagger
Act 3 starts with Macbeth fearing one person. That person is...
Act 4 starts with Macbeth going to see...
the 3 witches
This is Macbeth's Hamartia (fatal flaw)
Ambition
What adjective is used to describe Macbeth in the first act?
Brave
Who says this line: "Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done it"
Lady Macbeth
Why does Macbeth decide to kill Banquo and his son?
Because of the witches prophecy that Banquo's sons will be kings
Macduff had to choose between 2 things, what were they?
his family and his country
"Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it"
Appearance vs. Reality
What are the three prophecies the witches make?
Macbeth thane of cawdor, king and banquos sons will be kings
There are 3 things Macbeth can't do after he murders Duncan, what are they?
eat, sleep, pray
"But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in to sauce doubts and fears" - Macbeth
1. What technique is used in this line
2. What is Macbeth feeling?
1. Alliteration
2. Macbeth is feeling trapped/claustrophobic by his fear
Why did Shakespeare include the scene of Lady Macduff and her son joking around with each other before their murder?
To make us sympathise/feel for them
"Thou (the dagger) marshall'st me the way that I was going"
Fate vs. Free will
paradox
What was the point of the scene with the Porter?
humour, but also to foreshadow how Macbeth's reign is going to go
Macbeth hosts a dinner party for other lords and ladies, but it gets derailed because...
macbeth sees Banquo's ghost
"I have done no harm... To say I have done no harm" - Lady Macduff
This quote shows how far Macbeth has fallen into evil because...?
It shows he is now killing innocents
"When shall we three meet again?"
Supernatural
What are 3 factors that leads Macbeth to decide to kill Duncan?
His wife's manipulation, his own ambition, his belief it's his fate
"Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope the Lord's anointed temple (Duncan)" this quote links to...
The divine right of kings
What does Banquo's ghost symbolise?
macbeth's guilt over having him killed.
What did the 3 apparitions tell Macbeth?
1. Fear Macduff
2. none of a woman born shall harm macbeth
3. Macbeth won't be vanquished until Birnam forest marches to dunsinane hill.
"Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake thy gory locks at me"
Guilt vs. Conscience