Macbeth

Question 1

Lady Macbeth, Act 1 scene 5.

Answer 1

‘Come you spirits’

‘Unsex me here’

‘Too full of the milk of human kindness’

‘croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan’

‘I may pour my spirits in thine ear’

‘I fear thy nature, it is too full o’th’milk of human kindness’

Question 2

Act 2 scene 3

Answer 2

(To LM) ‘O gentle lady, ‘tis not for you to hear what I can speak’ -Macduff.

‘There’s daggers in men’s smiles’
-Donalblain.

Question 3

Act 2 scene 1.

Macbeth is off his rocker.

Just before the mental fella kills that Duncan bloke.

Answer 3

‘Is this a dagger I see before me, the handle toward my hand?’

‘A dagger of the mind, a false creation’

‘Let me clutch thee’

Question 4

What did the armoured head apparition symbolise?

Answer 4

Foreshadowed Macbeth death, treachery, violence of battle.`

Question 5

Act 2 quotes (4)

Answer 5

Oxymorons of Macbeth’s insecurity:

• ‘Doubtful joy.
• Restless ecstasy’

‘play’dst most foully’. Banquo suspicious of Macbeth.

‘full of scorpions is my mind’
-Macbeth

‘murdered sleep’
-foreshadows LM sleepwalking and her demise.

Question 6

What did the bloody child apparition symbolise?

Answer 6

First apparition says ‘beware Macduff’.

Contradicted by ‘no man born of a woman shall harm Macbeth’ said by the bloody child.

Question 7

Act 3 scene 1 quote (1)

Answer 7

‘put rancors in my vessel of peace’

-Macbeth

Question 8

What does the ‘child wearing a crown carrying a branch’ apparition symbolise?

Answer 8

Malcolm -> Scotland will flourish and grow under his reign. Woods will move towards the castle.

Question 9

Act 5 Lady Macbeth

Off her rocker at this point.

Answer 9

‘the thane of fife had a wife - where is she now?’

Goes from blank verse to confused probe.

‘out damned spot’ - overwhelmed with guilt

‘hell is murky’
-not embracing death and evil anymore.

Question 10

Act 3.

Answer 10

LM - ‘are you a man’
-attacking Macbeth’s masculinity.

‘cabined, cribbed, confined’
-Macbeth

‘play the humble host’
-LM a fan of deception.

Malcolm will have help from ‘him above’

Macbeth’s downfall:
‘it will have blood they say blood will have blood’

Question 11

Act 4

Answer 11

Macbeth not scared by witches
-threatens with an ‘eternal curse’

‘something wicked this way comes’
-Macbeth afraid unlike in the beginning

witches know his lust for power
-‘speak demand we’ll answer’

extended metaphor
-‘through the yeasty waves…confound and swallow navigation up’

Question 12

Act 1

Answer 12

Macbeth decribed as ‘brave’ and ‘valiant’.

'so foul and fair a day I have not seen'
-prophecy
='have we eaten on the insane root?'
-Banquo
='cannot be ill cannot be good'
-Macbeth

‘foul is fair and fair is foul’
-Motif runs throughout the play

Question 13

Act 4 scene 3

Answer 13

‘hold fast the mortal sword’

• plot to kill Macbeth
• Macduff