Murder and Violence
Macbeth sees this symbol before he does kills Duncan.
Bonus Points: Identify another hallucination in the play
What is a dagger?
Banquo's ghost, blood on Lady Macbeth's hands
This character says she will do this to a sailor whose wife refused to give her chestnuts "I will drain him dry as hay: Sleep shall neither night nor day Hang upon his pent-house lid; He shall live a man forbid"
Bonus Points: Who does this parallel in the play?
First Witch
Macbeth
This character says "Hours dreadful and things strange; but this sore night Hath trifled former knowings"
Bonus Points: What stylistic device is being established?
The Old Man
Pathetic Fallacy - the natural world is reacting to regicide
Fill the blank: The Prince of __________! that is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap,
For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your _____;
Let not light see my _______ and deep desires:
Cumberland, fires, black
In Act 1 Scene, the Witches mention Graymalkin and Paddock as allusions to?
What are familiars of the witches' or evil spirits in animal form that assist with their evil doings?
They are smeared with blood.
Bonus Points: Who killed them and when?
What are the grooms or Duncan's guards?
Macbeth in Act 2 Scene 3
This character is the Thane of Fife and it is suggested that they are not fully supportive of Macbeth as the new king.
What is Macduff?
This character says
"This castle hath a pleasant seat. The air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses."
Bonus Points: What type of irony is this?
Duncan
Dramatic Irony - the audience is aware that Duncan has come to the home where he will be murdered
Fill the blanks: "That which hath made them drunk hath made me _____; What hath quench'd them hath given me _____."
In Act 2: Scene 3, The Porter says 'Knock, knock; never at quiet! What are you? But this place is too cold for hell'? He makes a link with Macbeth’s Inverness Castle.
What is the link between the castle and hell?
This brave son of the English commander is killed by Macbeth.
Bonus Points: What Act are they killed?
Who is Young Siward?
Act Five
This character is often positions himself near royalty or those with power.
What is Lennox?
This character says "If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will no"
Bonus Points: What stylistic device is used here?
Banquo
Metaphor - ambition as a tragic flaw that grows
Fill the blank: "Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more! Macbeth does ______ sleep' the ________ sleep"
murder, innocent
In Act 4: Scene 2, Macduff's son says, 'Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enow to beat the honest men and hang up them' suggesting...
Men are not what they seem, and honest men (like his father Macduff) are the target of those who cannot be trusted.
This murder signifies the Macbeth's cruelty and revenge on the innocent
Bonus Points: What act does this occur>
What is the execution of Lady MacDuff and children?
Act Four
Which character leaves Scotland and goes to Ireland after Duncan is found murdered.
Donalbain
These characters say "'Liver of blaspheming Jew, Gall of goat, and slips of yew, Silver'd in the moon's eclipse, Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips"
Bonus points: What stylistic device is used?
The Witches
Allusion: According to Christian belief the Turk, Tartar, and the Jew were considered damned and unable to go to heaven.
Fill the blank: 'I think our country sinks beneath the yoke; It ______, it ______; and each new day a gash, Is added to her wounds'
weeps, bleeds
In Act 3: Scene 2 Macbeth states, 'O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!' What does this reveal about his journey as the tragic hero at this stage of the play?
Macbeth is paranoid about Banquo and sees him as a potential rival due to the witches' suggestion that his sons will be kings. He is moving towards the murder of his best friend.
Lady Macbeth requests that the spirits grant her these two things in order to fulfil Macbeth's destiny.
Bonus Points: What cultural assumption is Shakespeare drawing to?
What is "unsex me now" and fill me full of "direst cruelty"?
Gender norms
This character uses personification to suggest that people of Scotland are suffering under the rule of Macbeth saying "I think our country sinks beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash, Is added to her wounds"
Who is Malcolm?
Which character said, "It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Bonus Points: What stylistic device is used here?
Macbeth
Metaphor - for life, the "idiot" is a metaphor for the person living the life
Fill the blank: "Upon my head they placed a ________ crown, And put a _______ sceptre in my gripe,
Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand,
No _____ of mine succeeding
fruitless, barren, son
In Act 4 Scene 1, this is the warning and two prophecies the witches give Macbeth.
What is "beware MacDuff" and "not of woman born" can harm Macbeth and Macbeth need not fear "till Birnam Wood move to Dunsinane"?