Good And Evil

Question 1

Act 1, Scene 3

Answer 1

So foul and fair a day I have not seen

Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths

shakes so my single state of man

Question 2

Act 2, Scene 1

Answer 2

wither’d murder/Alarum’d by his sentinel, the wolf/Whose howl’s his watch, thus with his stealthy pace/With Tarquin’s ravishing strides, towards his design/Moves like a ghost

Question 3

Act 5, Scene 9

Answer 3

this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen

Question 4

Other points

Answer 4

Macbeth is described as “noble” at the beginning of the play. These means that the theme of corrupting ambition has a greater influence.

Good and evil could be symbolised by people themselves, or traits and objectives

Question 5

Lady Macbeth

Answer 5

fill me from crown to toe top full of direst cruelty

Manipulation rather than aggression

Question 6

Parallels with the devil

Answer 6

‘Speak, I charge you’

‘Something wicked this way comes’