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Macbeth Misc.
100
This is a character who suffers a reversal of fortune.
What is a tragic hero?
100
This character obsessively washed her hands, trying to remove an imagined drop of blood.
Who is Lady Macbeth?
100
During the banquet scene, this represents Macbeth's guilty conscience.
What is Banquo's ghost?
100
"Is this a dagger I see before me?"
Who is Macbeth?
100
These strange things discussed by Ross and an Old Man represent the evil of Macbeth's deeds during the night and the disruption of Plato's Great Chain of Being.
What are the storms and natural disturbances?
200
This is unrhymed iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?
200
She is killed by a hired murderer while her husband is in England.
Who is lady Macduff?
200
Before murdering Duncan, this represents Macbeth's inner turmoil: should I kill the king or not? This leads him to Duncan's chamber.
What is the floating dagger?
200
"Out, damned spot! Out, I say!"
Who is Lady Macbeth?
200
He ironically imagines himself as the gate-keeper to hell.
Who is the drunken porter/gatekeeper?
300
This is figurative language that compares two unlike things in an interesting way by saying one thing is the other. An example is "Life's but a walking shadow."
What is a metaphor?
300
He is the one who gets away from the hired murderers in the attack upon Banquo.
Who is Fleance?
300
This motif is repeated throughout the play in association with Macbeth and his titles. His titles never seem to "fit" him well.
What is clothing?
300
"By the pricking of my thumbs. Something wicked this way comes."
Who is a Weird Sister/witch?
300
These are metaphors that represent Macbeth's fear that he will not have an heir to the throne. Name at least one of them.
What are the "barren scepter" and the "fruitless crown"?
400
This is an apparent contradiction that proves to be true upon closer inspection. The Weird Sisters favored the use of this literary device.
What is a paradox?
400
Malcolm attempts to ascertain his loyalty by pretending to be utterly vile and wicked.
Who is Macduff?
400
These ingredients in the Weird Sisters' brew represent the chaos in Scotland under Macbeth's rule.
What are dismembered body parts?
400
"Turn, hell-hound, turn!"
Who is Macduff?
400
Macbeth tells his wife that his mind is full of these, meaning that he is tormented by guilt and inner conflict.
What are scorpions?
500
This is when a character speaks his or her thoughts aloud onstage to the audience.
What is soliloquy?
500
He said, "Where we are, there's daggers in men's smiles."
Who is Donalbain?
500
These often appear or are mentioned when anything violent is about to happen. The king and Banquo ironically mention their presence as they are entering Macbeth's castle.
What are birds?
500
"We shall not spend a large expense of time/Before we reckon with your several loves,/And make us even with you. My thanes and kinsmen,/Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland/In such an honor named...So, thanks to all at once and to each one,/Whom we invite to see us crown'd at Scone."
Who is Malcolm?
500
This is one of Macbeth's last remaining supporters who helps prepare him for battle in Act V.
Who is Seyton?