Quotes
Fair is foul and foul is fair” (1. 1. 11).
Who are the Witches?
He is the tragic hero of the play.
Who is Macbeth?
The type of literary device found in the following line:
"This castle hath a pleasant seat"(1.6.1).
What is pathetic fallacy?
Macbeth is given these two prophetic greetings at the beginning of the play.
What is "Hail thee Thanne of Cawdor" and "Hail thee that will be King hereafter".
He was the King of England when the play was written.
Who is King James I?
“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” (1. 5. 38-41).
Who is Lady Macbeth?
The man who finds Duncan's dead body.
Who is Macduff?
Blood is this type of literary device.
What is a symbol?
This person flees to England after the murder of his father.
Who is Malcolm?
This is the name of the play in the theater world.
What is The Scottish Play?
"Seize up Fife; give to th’ edge o’ th’ sword / His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls / That trace him in his line" (4. 1. 151-153)
Who is Macbeth?
The Queen of the Witches.
Who is Hecate?
This is the literary device used in this line:
“Fail not our feast” (3.1.29).
What is dramatic irony?
These are the three prophecies of the apparitions.
What are "Beware Macduff", "No man of woman born shall harm Macbeth" and "be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care who chafes, who frets… until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane Hill /Shall come against him"?
This is one of the main historical sources for the play.
What is Holinshed's Chronicles?
“Nought’s had, all’s spent, / Where our desire is got without content; / Tis safer to be that which we destroy / Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.” (III. ii. 6-9)
Who is Lady Macbeth?
He is Banquo's son.
Who is Fleance?
This is the literary device expressed in this line:
“Security / Is mortal’s chiefest enemy” (3. 5. 32-33).
What is foreshadowing?
This is how many lines Banquo's ghost has during the banquet scene.
What is 0?
This was the name of the source for the supernatural elements of the play.
What is King James' Daemonologie?
“The night has been unruly. Were we lay,/ our chimneys were blown down and, as they say,/ lamentings heard i' th' air, strange screams of/ death,/ and prophesying, with accents terrible,/ of dire combustion and confused events/ new hatched to th' woeful time. The obscure bird/ clamored the livelong night. Some say the earth/ was feverous and did shake” (2. 3. 61-69).
Who is Lennox?
Duncan's two sons.
Who are Malcolm and Donalbain?
This is the literary device used in this line:
“Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, / And put a barren sceptre in my gripe.” (III. i. 65)
What is a metaphor?
These are the names of all the people Macbeth killed or had killed in the play.
Who are Macdonwald, Duncan, the chamberlains, Banquo, Lady Macduff, Macduff's son, and Young Siward.
This is the year Macbeth was first performed.
What is 1606?