Plot
Hearing this changes Macbeth from a generally good guy to a paranoid, overly ambitious murderer.
What is the prophecy?
Murdered halfway through the play, his descendants are destined to be kings.
Who is Banquo?
Lady Macbeth appeals to the spirits to "fill her from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty," making her more stereotypically like this.
What is a man?
Double, double, toil and trouble
Who are the witches?
The prophecies at the beginning of the play work as this literary device that hints at future events.
What is foreshadowing?
Macbeth leaves Duncan's chambers covered in this, which we later see Lady Macbeth trying to wash off her hands in her sleep.
"No man of woman born," who gets revenge for the slaughter of his family by killing Macbeth.
Who is Macduff?
After committing murder, this theme haunts both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, symbolized by hallucinations like a bloody dagger and imagined spots that “will not wash out.”
What is guilt?
Look like th' innocent flower, But be the serpent under ’t
Lady Macbeth used this type of imagery when describing the night of Duncan’s murder: "I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry".
What is auditory?
During a feast, Macbeth worries his generals by acting very strangely because he sees this recently deceased figure sitting in his chair.
Who is Banquo?
The rightful heir to the Scottish throne who escapes to England after his father is murdered.
Who is Malcolm?
The concept, highlighted by the witches' prophecy, which Macbeth finds beneficial in the first act of the play and terrifying in the second act.
What is fate?
But I must also feel it as a man. I cannot but remember such things were That were most precious to me.
Who is Macduff?
What is personification?
Macbeth is told he doesn't have to worry about being defeated until this shows up at his castle.
What is Birnam Wood/the woods/trees?
This character appears briefly in Act 4 to lament the leaving of her husband before she is murdered off stage by Macbeth's men.
Who is Lady Macduff?
This recurring theme begins with Macbeth’s heroic actions on the battlefield but spirals into tyranny and murder as bloodshed becomes his only means to keep power.
What is violence?
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more.
Who is Macbeth?
Shakespeare wrote with Macbeth with a bleak, eerie, and ominous ____________ by having dark imagery, multiple conflicts, and morally complex characters.
What is tone?
After seeing the three apparitions during his second visit to the witches, Macbeth asks for more information and sees this, which greatly upsets him.
What is a vision of Banquo's descendants as kings?
This apparition appears to tell Macbeth that none of woman born shall harm him.
What is the bloody child?
The allusion comparing Macbeth to Lucifer, who overstepped his bounds and suffered the consequences, highlights the dangers of this theme.
What is ambition?
Knock, knock, knock! Who’s there?
Who is the Porter?
The blood on Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's hands throughout the play works as both a symbol for this theme and a reference to the idiom "blood on my hands".
What is guilt?