Characters
First to die in the play
OG Thane of Cawdor
Explain the symbol “sleep”
Answers vary.
“sleep no more”
Lady Macbeth sleepwalking
Sleep =
innocence/purity/piece of mind
Killing Duncan in sleep = ironic
Describe the theme of Ambition
Answers will vary.
Macbeth killed King Duncan etc.
Killed so many people in order to control
Combatants at the beginning of the play
Scotland and Norway
What is the literary device for “Foul is fair and fair is foul”
Paradox/oxymoron
*50 pt for Alliteration
The witch's leader
Hecate
(Goddess of Witchcraft)
“Stars hide your fires”
Is a symbol of?
Light/Darkness
Trying to hide the “light from
black and deep desires.”
Macbeth wanted to cloak his
evil thoughts/actions
The biggest depiction of guilt throughout the text is when…
Answers will vary. Must be explained and supported.
Student opinion- dagger, Sleep Walk, Banquo Ghost, etc.
What is ironic about the title Macbeth acquired?
The Thane of Cawdor was executed for committing treason which is what eventually happens to Macbeth… FORESHADOWING.
Who said… “If good, why do I yield to that suggestion /
whose horrid image doth unfix my hair..."
Macbeth
“paid a soldier’s debt”
Young Siward
”I have thee not, and yet I see thee still”
This line is a __________ from the ________ scene.
Vision/Hallucination from the
Dagger scene
“Yet do I fear thy nature:/ It is too full o’th’ milk of human kindness”
What theme is this? Explain the significance of the quote.
Feminine/Masculinity/Gender
Comparing Macbeth to a woman/ too kind to do anything bad.
Where is Macbeth set?
Scotland, 11th Century
Define hamartia
A fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine
Was not born of a woman
Macduff
Describe the symbol of Blood
Dagger
Can’t wash off hands = Stains
Stains = forever Guilt etc.
In cold blood- can't remove
Give an example of the theme Innocence
Answers will vary.
Macduff’s family killed
King Duncan (Good Stable king killed)
^^His Chamberlains killed for no reason
Who accuses whom of paying “most foully for it” and what does “it” refer to?
Banquo insinuates that Macbeth has come to “it” – the crown, by villainous means.
How does misogyny and James I shape the play?
-Witches = dislike for women/those who do not follow social norms
-James I spearheaded witch hunts.
The three apparitions…
The Armed Head (helmet)
The Bloody Child
The Child crowned (with a tree in his hand)
…. “4th” Banquo’s line of Kings
Find an example of Weather.
Constant thunder and lightning…
“When shall we three meet again/ In Thunder, lighting, or in rain?”
What three signs reflected a world out of order?
This is also a symbol of..
-The falcon was eaten by an owl
-Horses were eating each other
-Looked like night during the day
Supernatural
When does Macbeth realize the witches have tricked him?
He first realizes when he sees the camouflaged army.
Comes full circle when Macduff tells him he was a
“babe untimely ripped”
Paddock is…
2nd witches familiar, Toad.
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage / And then is heard no more. It is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.”
Metaphor, stage = life is fleeting/worthless/meaningless
Macbeth doesn’t care for his wife’s death, for it would have come eventually.