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Themes and Motifs
Vocabulary Terms
Characters
Events
Quotes
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This recurring idea in Macbeth connects to characters seeing things that aren’t really there, like daggers or ghosts.

What is hallucination (or visions)?

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This is a literary term that describes a character giving a long speech alone on stage.
What is a solilquy.
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This character is the "Queen of the Witches".
Who is Hecate.
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These are strange natural events that happen throughout the play that show the theme of "a crime against nature".
What is 1. dark during they day after Duncan is murdered 2. Owl eats a falcon 3. Horses eat each other 4. Thunderstorms when the witches are on stage 5. Bad weather
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This(ese) are the characters who say "Fair is foul and foul is fair".
Who are the witches.
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This theme is shown when Macbeth believes he must kill Duncan in order to fulfill what the witches told him.

What is fate vs. free will?

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A repeated image, idea, or symbol in a story—like blood or darkness throughout Macbeth.

What is motif?

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This character is Macbeth's ex-best friend, who "feared Macbeth played fouly for his Kingship".
Who is Banquo.
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This is the plot made by Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to murder King Duncan.
What is 1. Get guards drunk 2. Steal their daggars 3. Stab them in their sleep 4. Frame the guards 5. Act sad
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This is the character who says, "I have given suck, and know how tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this".
Who is Lady Macbeth
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Lady Macbeth asking spirits to “unsex” her shows this motif about traditional expectations for men and women.

What are gender roles?

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Macbeth is this type of play.
What is a tragedy.
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This character does not attend Macbeth's crowning or his banquet because he doesn't care for Macbeth.
Who is Macduff.
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This is Macbeth's plot to kill Banquo and Fleance.
What is hire murderers to ambush them as they ride horses around the castle.
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This is the character who says "Is this a daggar which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee"
Who is Macbeth.
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The repeated appearance of storms, strange animal behavior, and darkness in Acts 1–3 signal this theme.

What is the disruption of the natural order?

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This term describes a character’s weakness or fault that eventually leads to their downfall—like Macbeth’s ambition.

What is a tragic flaw?

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This is Banquo's son, who, according to the witch's prophesy, will be king.
Who is Fleance.
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Describe the Banquet scene.
What is Macbeth has hallucinations about the ghost of Banquo coming back and sitting in his chair. The guests are concerned about Macbeth and start to doubt his intentions.
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This is the character who said "Thou has it now- King, Glamis and Cawdor all as the Weird Women promised, and I fear thou played'st most foully for't."
Who is Banquo.
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This theme emerges when Macbeth kills Banquo and tries to control every threat to his power.

What is the corrupting nature of ambition?

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"Fair is foul and foul is fair" is an example of this literary term.

What is irony?

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These two people are dead King Duncan's sons.
Who are Malcolm and Donalbain.
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This is the growing tension and plan at the end of Act 3 between Malcom, Macduff, and Macbeth.

What is Malcolm has fled to England to get help from King Edward. He is collecting an army to come back and fight Macbeth for the throne, Macduff is helping. Macbeth is preparing his own army to fight back.

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This is the character who says, "I have begun to plant thee and will labor to make thee full of growing".
Who is King Duncan.