ACT 2-3

Question 1

What quote refers to Macbeth as the devil?

Answer 1

“but this place is too cold for hell. ill devil-porter it no further”

Question 2

what does the quote “here’s an equivocator that could swear in both the scales against either scale” present.

Answer 2

reference to gun powder plot and links to regicide as plot was a plan to kill king Duncan

Question 3

what quote links to the great chain of being?

Answer 3

“the night has been unruly:”

Question 4

“o, yet I do repent me of my fury, that I did kill them”

Answer 4

explores the idea that he regrets killing Banquo. links to deception

Question 5

“in the great hand of God i stand and thence

Answer 5

against the undivulged pretence i fight of treasonous malice”

Question 6

“these daggers in men’s smiles ;”

Answer 6

being deceptive shows he is nervous by his surroundings.