Generally Tragic Trivia
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What knave hath spoken?
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100

Lady Macbeth can't seem to get her hands clean from this bodily fluid, no matter how many times she washes them

What is blood?

100

What does blood often symbolise in the play?

Guilt / violence

100

"It will have blood, they say. Blood will have blood.
Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak." and
"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?"

Who is Macbeth?

100

What happened in this scene?


Macbeth killed Duncan and he is feeling guilty.

100

Why is Banquo’s ghost significant?

It externalises Macbeth’s guilt and shows the psychological consequences of his actions.

200

This weapon is seen floating in a hallucination and represents Macbeth's inner conflict about having just killed King Duncan.

What is a dagger?

200

In the Great Chain of Being, the only creatures above the King or Queen was God himself or these spiritual entities

What are angels?

200

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air".
and
"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes". 

Who are the Witches?

200

Give a quotation associated with these characters that establishes one of the play’s major ideas.

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.” 

200

This ingredient in the witches' potion may be cut from a household pet's mouth to stop constant barking

What is a dog's tongue/tongue of dog?

300

This character shares the same start of the name as Macbeth, and somewhat ironically, is the one to kill him too.

Who is Macduff?

300

What theme is explored by the Witches’ prophecies?

Fate vs free will

300

"Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't". and "What's done cannot be undone".

Who is Lady Macbeth?

300


What did Macbeth understand about this scene?

300

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”

Who is the witches

400

Before he was the King of Scotland, or even the Thane of Cawdor, Macbeth was the Thane of this place.

What is Glamis?

400

If a performance was not up to standard, the audience in the pit would hurl these at the actors on stage.

What is rotten fruit and/or vegetables?

400

"What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won"
and
"O valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman!" 

Who is King Duncan?

400


What is the motif in this scene?

400

How does Shakespeare use dramatic irony after Duncan arrives at Macbeth’s castle?

Duncan believes the castle and Macbeths are welcoming and trustworthy, while the audience knows they are planning his murder.

500

At the conclusion of the play, this son of the murdered King Duncan and the rightful heir to the throne, is back in charge of Scotland

Who is Malcolm?
500

Elizabethan Medicine believed the body was made up of a balance of four "humors" which included blood, black bile, yellow bile and this

What is phlegm?

500

"O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart cannot conceive, nor name thee"
and
"Bleed, bleed, poor country! Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure, For goodness dare not check thee"

Who is Macduff?

500

What technique is used in “Life’s but a walking shadow”?

Metaphor

500

Name one apparition shown to Macbeth in Act 4.

An armed head, a bloody child, or a crowned child holding a tree.