Character
What vision does Macbeth have before he kills Duncan? How does he react to this vision?
What is: A floating dagger which points in the direction of King Duncan's chamber. He reacts with reluctance, but follows the dagger to the King's bedside.
What is the driving force behind Lady Macbeth as a character?
What is: Ambition
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair" is a line from the play which is an example of which stylistic device?
What is: A paradox
What army did Malcolm lead to overthrow Macbeth?
What is: The English army.
What era is Macbeth set in?
What is: The Elizabethan Era.
Who in the play foreshadows the death of King Duncan by being a likened to a 'Raven' in Act 1, Scene 5.
What is: The messenger, and he delivers the news of Macbeth's prophecy from the witches.
Identify the theme most evident in Macbeth's Act V, Scene 5 soliloquy?
What is: Remorse and personal guilt.
What is the structural terminology used to identify when a character talks to themselves out loud to the audience?
What is: A soliloquy.
What do the 'Weird Sisters' predict about Macbeth's death?
What is: He would be killed by a man not borne of a woman.
Why is the play 'Macbeth' set in Scotland?
What is: To please the new King James who came from the Scottish throne to succeed the Elizabethan era.
Who said the following line and why, "What, you egg?"
What is: One of the murderers who is sent to kill McDuff.
What characters in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' most embody the themes of responsibility and loyalty?
What is: Banquo, McDuff and Malcolm
In what Act and Scene does Macbeth deliver the following line," Two truths are told...This supernatural soliciting/Cannot be ill, cannot be; if ill,/ Why hath it given me earnest of success, commencing in a truth?"
Why is this delivered as an aside by Macbeth?
What is: Act 1, Scene 3. This line is delivered as an aside because Macbeth is coming to terms with the prophecy which has been delivered to him on the battlefield and what this means for his future.
What mood was created by the weather on the night King Duncan was murdered?
What is: Stormy and violent.
What is the "Universal Hierarchy"?
What is: a system of patriarchy and hierarchy which means that men controlled society beginning with the individual family.
What does Macbeth state about his hands the morning after Duncan's death?
What is: Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green run red.
What are three of the most evident themes in Lady Macbeth's Soliloquy as she reads Macbeth's letter in Act 1, Scene 5?
What is: Ambition, supernatural and evil.
Finish the following lines from Act 1, Scene 3:
First Witch: "All hail, Macbeth!..."
Second Witch: "All hail, Macbeth!..."
Third Witch: "All Hail Macbeth!..."
First Witch: "All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!"
Second Witch: "All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!"
Third Witch: "All Hail Macbeth! that shalt be king hereafter."
What quote best reflects Macbeth's intention to avoid turning himself in after Banquo's ghost appears in Act 3 (the banquet)?
What is: "i am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should i wade no more, returning would be as tedious as go'oer."
What is: Edward the Confessor.
Why is Macbeth not able to say "Amen"?
What is: He is unable to say "Amen" because he has already defied the Great Chain of Being and will not be forgiven for sin of Regicide.
Identify two dominant contrasting themes which are evident in both characters and plot.
What is: Fate and Free will.
The following line, "Two truths are told" is spoken at the start of Macbeth's first in Act I, Scene 3. This is his first soliloquy in the play. What does this line refer to and what stylistic device is employed?
Macbeth’s firm and thoughtful tone in the opening alliteration “two truths are told” stresses how serious he takes the Witches’ predictions.
This soliloquy convey Macbeth’s true inner thoughts and motives. As this is Macbeth’s first soliloquy, it emphasises the strong possibility of Macbeth heading down a dark journey as he cannot forget the Witches’ predictions.
In Act III, Scene 4 Macbeth invigorates superstition and folklore by revealing, "It will have blood, they say. Blood will have blood." If this truth is known, why does Macbeth continue to enact violence after King Duncan's regicide?
What is: Macbeth understands that the dead will always have their revenge, but he also knows that he had gone too far to turn back - he covered his crimes of regicide and assassination and was beyond the point of return.
Identify the four elements and humors? What purpose did they have during the Elizabethan era?
What is: The elements compose everything in the universe - air, fire, water, and fire. People associated these four elements with the 'four qualities of being', hot, cold, moist, and dry.
The four elements were seen to be contained in the body as humors are blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile.
These were used by physicians to treat medical conditions.