Macbeth Character
Who murders Macbeth?
Macduff
This motif represents cleansing oneself
Water
Where is Macbeth set?
Scotland
Fill in the blank: Banquo says this when Macbeth is named king: "I fear thou played most ______ for it"
"Foully"
Name another Shakespeare play.
Many
Who says "fair is foul and foul is fair"
The witches
This motif represents guilt, kinship and murder.
Blood motif
Where does Malcolm flee to?
England
Who says "Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it"?
Lady Macbeth
What is the name of the literary device used when a character speaks aside and only the audience can hear?
Monologue
Who is the ghost that haunts Macbeth?
Banquo
Name two ways that reality not being what it appears emerges in the play?
Apparitions; hallucinations; prophecies; deceit
Where is Banquo murdered?
The woods/ forest
Who/what is Macbeth talking to when he says "Never shake thy gory locks at me!"
Banquo's Ghost
What was Shakespeare's wife's name? Note: She shared her name with a princess of the diary variety.
Anne Hathaway
What is the apparition that says "None of woman born shall harm Macbeth"?
The bloody child
What is a symbol that can represent Macbeth's change from soldier to savage?
The dagger
Birnam Wood
Fill in the blank: Macbeth says this when he learns that Fleance has escaped:
"There the grown serpent lies; the _______ that's fled in time will venom breed."
"Worm"
What is iambic pentameter?
10 syllable line, with alternating stressed and unstressed syllables to create rhythm.
Who is killed in the beginning of the play for being a traitor?
Thane of Cawdor
What are three ways Shakespeare demonstrates the destruction of the natural order in Macbeth?
The weather (storming after Duncan's murder) horses ate each other, birds (predator and prey swapped)
What is the name of Macbeth's castle before he becomes king?
Inverness
When Lady Macbeth dies, Macbeth says "She should have died __________"
**You must use the Shakespearean word!
Hereafter
What is the best insult in 'Macbeth'?
'What you EGG'. **He stabs him.**