Significant events (plot)
Notable quotes
Examples of metalanguage
Themes explained
Author's Purpose
Historical context
100
The Witches are encountered by these two people in the forest early into the play.
Who are Banquo and Macbeth?
100
'Double double, toil and trouble/
Fire burn and cauldron ______.'
What is bubble?
100
Banquo referring to his sleepiness and how 'A heavy summons lies like lead upon me' is an example of at least two of these literary devices.
What is...:
Alliteration (L - L - L)
Foreshadowing (Murdered)
A simile (Lies like lead)
A motif (referring to sleep)
100
Blood is a potent symbol of this theme.
What is guilt?
100
Shakespeare portrays Macbeth as this kind of hero to create points about the play.
What is a tragic hero?
100
The century the play was written in.
When was the 17th century?
200
Macbeth, Thane of Glamis, becomes Thane of _____, inheriting it from traitor who had betrayed Scotland for another country.
Who is the Thane of Cawdor?
Another 200 points to those who name Norway!
200
'The merciless __________.'
This character is slain by Macbeth early into the play off-screen.
This is a screenshot from the Shakespeare wikia, btw.
Who is MacDonwald?
200
'Out out, brief candle' is a _________ to refer to life and Lady Macbeth's fate.
What is a metaphor?
200
The text explores the battle between fate and this other idea.
What is free will?
200
Ultimately, Lady Macbeth is a victim of her own...
What is guilt?
200
The historical and philosophical order and structure to life that people believed in in the 17th century.
What is the Great Chain of Being?
300
'All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand!'
This monologue (or soliloquy, depending on your POV) is being observed by a gentlewoman and this other person, who wants to leave.
Who is the Doctor?
300
Young Siward is '________ from the front' in this Act and Scene.
What is being stabbed from the front in Act 5 Scene 8?
300
Three types of metalanguage that can refer to the different ways a character speaks onstage.
What is:
An aside?
A monologue?
A soliloquy?
300
Horses eating each other is an example of this theme.
What is the collapse of the natural order or the effect of the supernatural?
300
Shakespeare writes this text for two distinctly different audiences.
Who is King James VI/I and 17th century English theatregoers?
300
Scotland and England are at war with this country throughout the text.
Where or what is Norway?
400
Macduff mourns these three losses throughout the play.
Who are Lady Macduff, his child (you egg!), and King Duncan?
400
This forest moves to Dunsinane Hill, fulfilling an otherwise absurd prophesy.
What is Birnam Wood?
400
The metre the Witches speak in.
What is trochaic tetrametre?
400
Macbeth's depiction as a famous general that utterly destroys his opponents, and therefore reaps a reward for his abilities, demonstrates this theme that is juxtaposed in the end.
What is his heroism, glory, honour, or valour?
400
Shakespeare portrays this setting as improperly run, legitimising rule over it by this other setting.
What are Scotland and England, respectively?
400
The denomination of Christianity that Macbeth subscribes to. The opposite of King James' VI/I.
What is Catholicism?
500
Name 5 people that attend Macbeth's banquet for the thanes and nobles.
Who are:
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Ross
Lennox
First murderer
... and Banquo?
500
Finish this quote:
"No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas ____________/making the green one red."
What is incarnadine?
500
Other than repetition, Lady Macbeth's unconscious decision to head 'to bed, to bed, to bed', is an example of this device.
What is foreshadowing?
Another 500 if someone said polysyndeton btw :)
500
Macduff is tested by Malcolm in this Act and Scene to demonstrate this theme.
What is Act 4, Scene 3's scene of Loyalty?
500
True or false:
The Porter references Catholics harbouring criminals to demonstrate compassion.
False.
The Porter references 'equivocators' - people who lie without lying outright - as a Catholic duty for those who shield, from authorities, those who attempted to kill King James VI/I, who was a Protestant.
He does so to demonstrate the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church, highlighting Shakespeare's endorsement of Protestant values to his audience!
500
The two-word phrase referring to the assassination attempt of James VI of Scotland and I of England in 1605.
Gunpowder Plot