Macbeth quotes A5

Question 1

quote showing Lady Macbeth is frenetic as she desperately tries to rid herself of the blood

Answer 1

Out, damned spot! out, I say! A5S1

Question 2

quote that shows Lady Macbeth is tormented by guilt and is struggling to come to terms with the terrible things she has done.

Answer 2

Hell is murky A5S1

Question 3

Quote showing Lady Macbeth’s uncertainty and fear

Answer 3

What, will these hands ne’er be clean? A5S1

Question 4

Quote showing contradiction with Lady Macbeth’s earlier remark demonstrating her guilt

Answer 4

all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand A5S1

what’s done cannot be undone A5S1

Question 5

Quote suggests that committing unnatural or immoral acts can lead to unexpected and disturbing consequences.

Answer 5

unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles A5S1

Question 6

Phrase that shows Macbeth’s aging, decay and mortality

Answer 6

the yellow leaf A5S3

Question 7

Quotes that show Macbeth has been through many terrible incident and has become desensitised to it

Answer 7

I have almost forgot the taste of fears A5S5

I have supp’d full with horrors A5S5

Question 8

what does seyton say when Macbeth asks him about the noise

Answer 8

The queen, my lord, is dead

Question 9

Quote that shows how insignificant human life is to Macbeth

Answer 9

Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more A5S5

Question 10

how does Macduff refer to Macbeth when he meets him in the battlefield

Answer 10

hell-hound A5S8

–> supernatural creature known for its ferocity and cruelty

–> shows macbeth is being consumes by ambition and is willing to commit any atrocity to maintain power

–> corrupted by his pursuit of power

Question 11

quote that shows that the prophecy is rendered meaningless and useless and leads to Macbeth’s downfall

Answer 11

Macduff was from his mother’s womb Untimely ripp’d

Question 12

quote that shows Macbeth’s Anagnorsis

Answer 12

and be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense

Question 13

how does Macbeth refer to the witches

Answer 13

juggling fiends

Question 14

quote that shows Macbeth’s actions throughout the play has been characterised by cruelty, violence and oppression

Answer 14

‘Here may you see the tyrant’

Question 15

quote that shows Macbeth’s final descent into despair and his willingness to fight to the death despite knowing that his cause is lost.

Answer 15

I will not yield A5S8

I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff, and damn’d be him that first cries, ‘Hold, enough!’ A5S8

Question 16

stage direction that shows a circular structure. Macbeth was once the deliverer of justice but now justice is being delivered to him

Answer 16

Re-enter MACDUFF, with MACBETH’s head

–> shows that justice and the natural order has been restored