Corruption of Nature Quotes

Question 1

through Macbeth’s murder of Duncan

Answer 1

“And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature?” (Act 1, Scene 3)

Question 2

through Macbeth’s hallucinations

Answer 2

“It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes. Now o’er the half-world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain’d sleep” (Act 2, Scene 1)

Question 3

through the disturbance in nature

Answer 3

“I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry. Did you not speak?” (Act 2, Scene 2)

Question 4

through the disruptive nature of the night following Duncan’s death

Answer 4

“The night has been unruly: where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down, and, as they say, Lamentings heard i’th’air, strange screams of death” (Act 2, Scene 3)

Question 5

through the disruption of the natural order

Answer 5

“Confusion now hath made his masterpiece; Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The Lord anointed temple and stole thence The life o’th’building” (Act 2, Scene 3)

Question 6

through Macbeth’s usurp of the throne

Answer 6

“A falcon tow’ring in her pride of place Was by a mousing owl hawk’d at and kill’d” (Act 2, Scene 4)

Question 7

through Banquo’s fears of Macbeth

Answer 7

“I fear Thou played’st most foully for it” (Act 3, Scene 1)

Question 8

through the consequences of Macbeth’s deeds

Answer 8

“unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles” (Act 5, Scene 1)

Question 9

through LM’s sleepwalking

Answer 9

“A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching” (Act 5, Scene 1)