Kingship and Country

Question 1

Act 2, Scene 3

Answer 1

Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope/The Lord’s anointed temple, and stole thence/The life o’ the building!

Question 2

Act 2, Scene 4

Answer 2

Ross: Duncan’s horses- Turn’d wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out/Contending ‘gainst obedience.
Old Man: ‘Tis said they are each other

Question 3

Act 4, Scene 3

Answer 3

Boundless intemperance/in nature is a tyranny - Macduff

I think our country sinks beneath the yoke/it weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash/Is added to her wounds - Malcolm

Question 4

Act 5, Scene 8

Answer 4

this bloody butcher

Question 5

Other techniques :

Answer 5

Macbeth is rarely described as ‘king’

Contrasting lexical sets: Duncan was ‘gracious’, Edward has a ‘healing benediction’ and used ‘holy prayers’, he’s surrounded by ‘blessings’ that ‘speak him full of grace’
Whereas Macbeth is described as a ‘tyrant’, ‘devilish’ and ‘wicked’