Setting
Macbeth is set in this country.
What is Scotland?
His greatest flaw is his ambition (although if we ask his wife he isn't ambitious enough).
Who is Macbeth?
Lady Macbeth's reaction to the witches' prophecies
What is a passionate commitment to make sure Macbeth becomes King?
How most people would describe Duncan as a king.
What is kind, well-liked, and too trusting?
This is the rhetorical device Shakespeare used to offset heavy, dramatic scene.
What is comic relief? (Can you identify an example?)
The name of Macbeth's castle
What is Inverness?
The King names him Prince of Cumberland (his heir).
Who is Malcolm?
The meaning of Lady Macbeth's quote: “Yet I do fear thy nature; it is too full of the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way."
What is her fear of Macbeth's gentle nature and her questioning if he can murder Duncan for the crown?
Says, “For Brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name”
Who is the Captain? (Explain its meaning.)
This is a political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy. It asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving his right to rule directly from the will of God.
What is the divine right of kings?
This country partnered with Macdonwald to attack King Duncan in Act I.
What is Norway?
Executed for being a traitor and allowing Macbeth to take his position.
How Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to murder King Duncan
What is she questions his masculinity?
The reasons Macbeth did NOT want to kill Duncan.
The king respects and honors Macbeth. Macbeth knows the king is beloved by his people. They are cousins. He does not want to suffer consequences on earth or in his afterlife.
The king that Shakespeare wrote this play for.
Who is King James I?
The place that Macduff is Thane of
What is Fife?
Opens the gate for Macduff and makes an ironic reference to hell....extra points if you can tell why it is ironic.
What is the Porter? It is ironic because he references hell without knowing that Duncan has been murdered. Also an example of comic relief!
The meaning of Lady Macbeth's quote: "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..."
What is her asking to take away her soft, feminine nature and do whatever necessary to help Macbeth become king?
Says, “Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it."
What is Lady Macbeth? (What does she mean?)
This is an example of Shakespeare using clothing imagery in Macbeth.
What is...?
The places that Malcolm and Donalbain escaped to after Duncan's murder
What is England (Malcolm) and Ireland (Donalbain)?
This character finds the King dead
Who is Macduff?
Lady Macbeth tries to calm her husband when he is agitated about committing murder by telling him to do this.
What is put it out of his mind and/or wash his hands with water?
The Old Man and Ross discuss Duncan's horses going wild and the storm. These symbolize what events.
What is the evil of the deeds Macbeth has committed / the murder of Duncan? This is an example of the Divine Right of Kings -- why?
An example of this is when the ground shook and the wind howled after Duncan was murdered.
What is pathetic fallacy?