Act 1

Question 1

Pardox said by the witches that runs through the whole play

Answer 1

‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’

Question 2

Supernatural theme created at the start to show how people imagined ghosts

Answer 2

‘Hover through the fog and filthy air’

‘Fog and filthy’ suggests the ghosts are dirty and evil/uncleansed

Question 3

Quote from the captain to show macdonwald as a bad person

Answer 3

‘The merciless macdonald’

Question 4

Quote from the captain in which he praises Macbeth and shows that Macbeths fate lies in his own hands

Answer 4

‘Brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name - disdaining fortune with his brandish’d steel’

Question 5

Quote from the captain to show that nothing stood in Macbeths way and that he was forceful and focused

Answer 5

‘Which smok’d with bloody execution, like valors minion carv’d out his passage’

Links to him pathing the way of his own fate. This quote links to him later becoming a tyrant

Question 6

Violent imagery used by captain to show macbeths actions

Answer 6

‘He unseamed him from the nave to th’chaps and fixed his head upon our battlements’

The metaphorical image of him being “unseamed” has gruesome connotations

Question 7

Quote by the captain to show Macbeth as being dangerous and brave

Answer 7

‘As sparrows, eagles, or the hare, the lion’

Macbeth is the eagle or lion - predator

Question 8

Witches prophecy towards Macbeth being king

Answer 8

‘All hail Macbeth, hail to thee thane of cawdor, all hail macbeth thalt shalt be king hereafter’

Question 9

Rhetorical question from banquo alluding to the supernatural when asking if the prophecies are real

Answer 9

‘Are ye fantastical, or that indeed’

Question 10

Macbeth first imagines killing duncan and regrets it

Answer 10

‘Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair’

Question 11

Quote from duncan to foreshadow Macbeths betrayal

Answer 11

‘he was a gentleman on whom i had built absolute trust’

Question 12

Motif of light and dark while Macbeth speaks his thoughts

Answer 12

‘Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires’

Question 13

Quote to show macbeth sees his wife as equal - strange as in these times women were thought to be second class - shows power of lady M

Answer 13

‘My dearest partner of greatness’

Question 14

Quote from Lady M asking for her female traits and human traits to be taken away

Answer 14

‘Unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty’

Question 15

Quote from Lady M to show she wants her goodness removed

Answer 15

‘Take my milk for gall’

Hints at the supernatural

Question 16

Lady M tells Macbeth he needs to change his ways

Answer 16

‘Look like th’innocent flower but be the serpent under’t’

Question 17

Quote to show Macbeth is worried about being killed if he kills the king

Answer 17

‘Bloody instructions, which being taught, return to plague th’inventor’

Question 18

Lady Macbeth’s agressive and commanding tone - forcing macbeth to kill duncan - demasculinates him

Answer 18

‘When you durst do it, then you are a man’