The Supernatural

Question 1

Act I, Scene 3

Answer 1

You should be women/and yet your beards forbid me to interpret/that you are so

What are these/So wither’d and so wild in their attire/That look not like the inhabitants o’ the earth

• setting of the heath*
• rhyming couplets - form*

Question 2

Act 1, Scene 5

Answer 2

Come, you spirits/That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here

• audience reaction*
• hubris*

Question 4

Act 2, Scene 1

Answer 4

Is this a dagger which I see before me/The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have the not, and yet I see thee still

or art thou but/A dagger of the mind, a false creation/ Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

soliloquy

Question 5

Act 2, Scene 3

Answer 5

the night has been unruly - Lennox

theme of night and sleep

Question 7

Act 3, Scene 2

Answer 7

Come, seeling night/Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day

• light and dark imagery*
• implications of doubt and deceit*

Question 8

Act 3, Scene 4

Answer 8

Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee!/Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold/Thou hast no speculation in those eyes/Which thou dost glare with

chilling imagery

Question 9

Act 2, Scene 4

Answer 9

dark night strangles the travelling lamp - Ross

light and dark imagery