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What is the main theme of Macbeth?

Unrestrained ambition has devastating effects.

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Who did Duncan name as Thane of Cawdor originally?

His son, Malcolm
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How does Banquo feel about the witches initially?

He is skeptical of them.

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"Out damned spot! Out, I say!"

Lady Macbeth

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“Fair is foul and foul is fair: / Hover through the fog and filthy air.” Three Witches

  • Go out only in bad weather
  • Are clever at telling the difference between right and wrong
  • Cause moral standards to be completely reversed

The morals are reversed. What is good is bad and what is bad is good.

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How does guilt manifest in the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth?

Macbeth- His rapid decline in mental health and hallucinating the ghost of Banquo.

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Lady Macbeth wishes to be more like what/whom in Act I?

A brave, strong man.

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What were the three apparitions? 

The Bloody Child

The crowned child holding a tree

The severed head with an armored helmet.

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“O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!”

Banquo

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“Thou marshall’st me the way that I was going; / And such an instrument I want to use.” (Macbeth, Act II, scene i)

  • You urge me to the action I was planning, suggesting the same instrument that I had in mind.
  • You will have to lead me to Duncan’s room; it is so dark I can’t see.
  • My eyes can’t fool me into thinking there is a dagger leading me to Duncan.
  • You urge me to the action I was planning, suggesting the same instrument that I had in mind.
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What is the main example of the theme of "the supernatural" in Macbeth?

The Witches

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Macbeth hires murderers to kill who? Hint: There are three people.

Banquo, Fleance, and Macduff.

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Who is the Queen of the witches? 

Hecate

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"Is this a dagger which I see before me? The handle toward my hand?"

Macbeth

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“Naught’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.” (Lady Macbeth, Act III, scene ii)

  • After you spend all your money, there’s nothing left but worry.
  • Getting what you want is not always worth the pain that follow.
  • It is best to destroy what’s standing in one’s way.

Getting what you want is not always worth the pain that follow.

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When Macbeth kills Duncan to "fulfill the prophecy" it is an example of what theme?

Fate vs. Freewill

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What do the Witches tell Macbeth that him feel secure and confident?

  • “None of woman born shall harm Macbeth.”
  • “Macbeth shall never vanquished be/Until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him.”
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What is the prophecy that the audience knows, that the main characters do not know?

That Macbeth's end is near.

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“Well, may you see things well done there. Adieu,

Lest our old robes sit easier than our new!”  

Macduff

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“There’s blood upon thy face.” / “’Tis Banquo’s then.” / “’Tis better thee without than he within.” (Macbeth, Murderer, Act III, scene iv)

  • I’d rather have you outside the door than Banquo in this room.
  • I’d rather have the blood on your face than still inside Banquo.
  • I’d rather see you hadn’t come here with blood on your face.

I’d rather have the blood on your face than still inside Banquo.

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The old man and Ross see what during the storm that proves the theme of the supernatural? Hint: There are three things.

  • An owl killed and ate a falcon, when owls usually eat rodents.
  • Although it is daytime, the sky looks like it is night
  • Horses broke out of their stalls, ran wild, and ate one another.
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Who commits suicide after loss of spirit and sanity?

Lady Macbeth

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What is the prophecy regarding Banquo?

His family line will reign.

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“Have I not reason, beldams as you are,

Saucy and overbold? How did you dare

To trade ad traffic with Macbeth…”

Banquo

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“And that which should accompany old age / As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must look to have; but in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth honor, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.” (Macbeth, Act V, scene iii)

  • Taking the throne by murdering Duncan will not bring Macbeth the joys he would have had if he had attained his role honestly.
  • People say the right things, but talk behind his back.
  • Both A and B

Taking the throne by murdering Duncan will not bring Macbeth the joys he would have had if he had attained his role honestly.