Macbeth
Person that Macbeth murders.
King Duncan
When Duncan is found dead, Lady Macbeth acts like this.
Shocked. She acts like the "Innocent flower"
Macbeth admits to killing them.
The guards
Speaker of the following lines. "The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures"
Lady Macbeth
How does the play open?
With the three witches
The bloody dagger that Macbeth saw before committing murder was the result of this.
His imagination
A hallucination that stems from guilt.
Lady Macbeth tells her husband to do this to his hands after committing the murder.
Wash his hands
Feels that his hands will forever be stained with sin.
Macbeth
Banquo cannot clear his mind of this.
The witches
"Lesser than Macbeth, and greater" and "Not so happy, yet much happier" are examples of this literary element.
Paradox
Macbeth’s signal to move forward with the plan.
The sound of a bell.
Lady Macbeth does this with the bloody daggers.
Uses them to frame the guards.
Person that finds Duncan's dead body.
Macduff
"What had quenched them hath given me fire" is an example of this literary element.
Paradox
Macbeth's only reason for wanting to kill Duncan.
Ambititon
Word that Macbeth struggles to say right after killing King Duncan.
Amen
Lady Macbeth's reason for not killing Duncan herself.
He resembles her father?
Claims that "A little water clears us of this deed".
Lady Macbeth
Due to the fact that they flee right after Duncan’s murder, these two people are considered suspects.
Donalbain and Malcolm
According to the witches, Macbeth will soon hold these titles.
Thane of Cawdor and King
After murdering Duncan, Macbeth becomes paranoid about this.
Being heard committing murder
What is the literary device used when Macduff describes Lady Macbeth as "O gentle lady"?
Irony
The night of the murder what does Lennox and Macduff discuss happened? What theme does this further convey?
How horrible the weather was, the storm sounded like "strange screams of death" Duncan's escaped horses and ate each other. This furthers the supernatural vs natural theme.
Speaker of the following lines. "O, yet I do repent me of my fury, That I did kill them"
Macbeth
What does Macbeth mean when he says the following?
Stars, hide your fires;
Let not light see my black and deep desires:
The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be
What the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
He wants to world to quieten itself and not look upon his thoughts - he has yet to commit any act but his own thoughts are so dark and dangerous that he does not want anyone, not even the earth or heaven to see them. But he still desires to result of his treasonous thoughts.