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Who said it to whom?
Plot Analysis
Themes
Literary Devices
Our friend Shakespeare
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"What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won."
Who King Duncan praising Macbeth in Act I scene II
100
Duncan's sons
Who are Malcolm and Donalbain
100
What does Macbeth envision before murder?
What is a bloody dagger
100
Theme of the play
What is tragedy
100
Shakespeare wrote Macbeth for this person
Who is James I
200
That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold.
Who is Lady Macbeth (after the murder of Duncan in Act II)
200
What does the escape of Fleance symbolize for Macbeth?
What is a threat to Macbeth (the prophecy could still be fulfilled) Fleance's escape brings about the initiation of Macbeth's decline, as this is the first time he has failed in executing his plans to perfection
200
What does Lady Macbeth use to convince Macbeth to murder Duncan? What theme is this connected to?
What is questioning his manhood/manliness. (Cruelty and Masculinity)
200
What literary device do the witches bring to the play?
What is foreshadowing (through their prophecies)
200
Elizabethan social order
What is the great chain of being
300
'What's done cannot me undone'
Who is Lady Macbeth--she says this in Act V when she is sleepwalking in her chamber with her maid (in contrast to "what's done is done" in Act II)
300
Who kills Lady Macbeth?
Who is Lady Macbeth
300
Name two repeated motifs/symbols in the play
bloody dagger, children, blood, sleep, hallucination, prophecy (etc)
300
What is the part of drama when an audience or reader knows more about a character’s situation than the character does?
What is dramatic irony (example from Macbeth is when the audience knows Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are plotting murder, and Duncan is oblivious)
300
The name of Shakespeare's theatre
What is the Globe
400
"Thou hast it now--King, Cawdor, Glamis, all--as the weird women promised, and I fear, thou play'dst most foully for it. Who said this and to whom? What does it mean?
Who is Banquo to Macbeth--he is expressing his suspicion toward Macbeth's murder of King Duncan.
400
Who is not born of a woman?
Who is Macduff
400
Three reasons Macbeth may be the third murderer in Scene 3
What is -answers it is Macbeth who sent him, first to hear horses approaching, knows Banqou's habits, 'who did strike out the light', first to recognize Banqou, he is the most concerned when Fleance fled
400
Attributing of human emotion and conduct to aspects within nature, inanimate objects or animals (form of personification)
What is pathetic fallacy
400
A Gaelic system for passing on crowns, titles and lands; Scotland had a strict system that was usually upheld
What is tanistry
500
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage / And then is heard no more"
Who is Macbeth--this is a soliloquy (the 'tomorrow soliloquy he says in Act 5)
500
Who jokes that he works at "hell's gate?"
Who is the porter
500
Macbeth says, "Out, out brief candle". What does the candle symbolize?
What is life
500
What causes Macbeth's downfall?
What is pride/ambition
500
How were the witches portrayed in the modern Patrick Steward film version of Macbeth?
What is as nurses in a war hospital