Characters
This character has a pun that sounds like another word for "run away" or "escape"
Fleance
"I have breast fed, and I know tender a thing it is to love the baby that takes milk from me. Yet, I'd rather pull my nipple from his gums and bash his brains out, than break a promise I'd made to you!"
Identify and Explain a symbol or allusion on the last page of the play.
Sunset, crown, cross, future war
Your sons will become kings
Banquo
The ghost of Banquo is at the banquet but none of the characters understand why Macbeth is acting strangely
Dramatic Irony
This character is an assistant to Macbeth after many of his troops abandon him. His name is a pun on the leader of Hell.
Seyton
"Appear genuine, you'll have to look as innocent as a flower...a flower that's hiding a serpent" (22)
Lady Macbeth. Flower is a symbol of innocence, snakes are manipulating
Name two things that the dagger symbolizes in the play?
Directional (leading Macbeth to kill), Betrayal, Tool for murder
What was the first prophecy the witches tell to Macbeth
Hail thane of Cawdor, King Hereafter
By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes!
Situational - Macbeth is considered wicked by the witches
"Consider" this character, providing comic relief or raising the tension to create a suspenseful scene.
Porter
"Is this a dagger I see before me, the handle towards my hand? Come let me grip you."
Macbeth
The Porter says "Who's there in the name of Beelzebub", what is being alluded to?
The devil
What apparition is used for the prophecy warning about trees moving to Dunshire hill?
A boy with a crown holding a tree
Irony can create both suspense but also...what?
Humor
A doctor checks in on this character but recommends "she has more need of a priest than a physician"
Lady Macbeth
"Tomorrow and Tomorrow and tomorrow...Each day creeping slowly after the one before...A brief flicker of life, like a candle in the wind"
Macbeth
"To be king is nothing. To stay king...that's what matters. My fear of Banquo runs deep. It's his natural nobility that's so threatening...He's the only one I'm afraid of and, besides him, my reputation's diminished - just like Mark Antony's was by caesar"
Antony and Caesar
What was the prophecy from the disembodied head?
"Beware MacDuff"
Lady MacDuff says "He's an orphan, even though he has a father"
Situational/Verbal
Has all of the witches prophecies come true?
No, Fleance is not a king