Who am I?
I warn Macbeth to “beware Macduff.”
The First Apparition
“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!”
Lady Macbeth
“Out, out, brief ______.”
candle
Macbeth explores how unchecked ______ leads to moral corruption.
ambition
“Out, out, brief candle” is an example of which literary device?
Metaphor
I am killed while sleeping, representing the destruction of natural order.
King Duncan
“Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?”
Macbeth
“Double, double, toil and ______.”
trouble
The murder of Duncan disrupts the natural and ______ order.
social
“Life’s but a walking shadow” is an example of what device?
Metaphor (or personification)
I flee to England after my father’s death, causing suspicion.
Malcom
“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t.”
Lady Macbeth
“When shall we three meet again, in thunder, lightning, or in ______?”
rain
The play examines how guilt can destroy both ______ and ______.
mind and body
The recurring reference to blood symbolises what theme?
I am born “from my mother’s womb untimely ripped.”
Macduff
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”
The Witches
“Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o’ the milk of human ______.”
kindness
Lady Macbeth’s downfall reveals the conflict between ambition and ______.
conscience
The witches’ chant “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” is an example of which device?
Paradox (and/or equivocation)
I begin as a loyal warrior but end as a paranoid tyrant.
Macbeth
“All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!”
The Witches
“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from ______ to ______.”
day to day
The supernatural represents the tension between fate and ______.
free will
The weather and unnatural events that accompany Duncan’s murder are examples of what device?
pathetic fallacy