Whodunit?
Lady Macbeth's role in the murder of King Duncan
What is drugging the guards?
The meaning of the theme "Fate v. Free Will"
What is the question of whether a person is in charge of his/her own circumstances or if the person is bound to destiny?
The Weird Sister's predictions for Macbeth
What is: the Thane of Cawdor and King of Scotland?
The meaning of the phrase, "fair is foul and foul is fair" (1.1.12)
Things are not always as they seem (appearances are deceiving and what seems good may actually be bad)
Macbeth's tragic flaw
What is ambition?
Lady Macbeth's response to Macbeth's letter (with the witches' prophecies) tells us what about her character
What is Lady Macbeth is manipulative and ambitious?
The theme that the "bloody daggers" speech best represents
What is the effects of guilt?
The prophecies of the three apparitions
1. Beware Macduff
2. No man born of a woman can harm Macbeth
3. Macbeth will not be defeated until Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane Hill
“Stars hide your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires" (Macbeth) best relates to which motif?
What is light and darkness?
The reason(s) Macbeth felt conflicted about killing King Duncan
Duncan is Macbeth's family; he is a good king; Macbeth doesn't want justice to come back around to him
Donalbain and Malcolm decide to do this after King Duncan is murdered
What is Donalbain flees to Ireland while Malcolm flees to England because they are afraid that they will be murdered next?
The 5 motifs of Macbeth
What are: sleep/sleeplessness, blood and water, unnatural occurences, light/darkness, nature/weather?
Macbeth sees this during his banquet.
Who is Banquo's ghost?
What Macbeth means when he says, “blood will have blood” (3.4.122)
What is Macbeth is saying that actions have consequences and that his violence will cause more violence?
The reason Macduff likely left his family in Scotland
What is Macduff thought that Macbeth would not harm innocents?
The way that the plan to kill King Duncan goes wrong
What is Macbeth forgetting to leave the daggers on the guards to frame them for the murder of King Duncan?
The six themes of Macbeth
What are: Unchecked Ambition, Natural v. Supernatural, Fate v. Free Will, Effects of Guilt, Importance of Loyalty, and Corruption of Power?
The ways that the 3 apparitions' prophecies come true
What is Malcolm's soldiers cut down branches from Birnam Wood to disguise their numbers as they march to Dunsinane Hill and Macduff, who was a c-section baby and therefore not born of a woman "naturally," kills Macbeth?
The significance of Macduff crying out, “Did heaven look on and would not take their part?” (4.3.226-227).
What is Macduff questioning why bad things happened to his family, who did not deserve to be murdered?
The meaning of hubris
What is excessive pride?
How Macbeth's explanation about why he killed the guards is an example of dramatic irony
What is the reader knows that Macbeth is responsible for murdering King Duncan (and would not have killed the guards because of his love for King Duncan)?
“Oftentimes to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths. Win us with honest trifles to betray us in deepest consequence” (Banquo). This quote best relates to which theme?
What is fate v. free will?
The significance of the final apparition showing “a line of Kings” that look like Banquo
What is Macbeth has not prevented Banquo's prophecy?
The character that said, "What, you egg?" (4.2.79) to Macduff's son
Who is the murderer?
The turning point in the play (be prepared to say why)
What is the murder of King Duncan in Act II OR what is the murder of Banquo in Act III?