Deceit

Question 1

Ts1: from the beginning of the play, the witches deceive Macbeth.

Answer 1

‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair’

Question 2

Ts2: MB hides his ambition to become king after hearing the witches’ prophecies but LMB encourages him to be a deceitful murderer

Answer 2

‘Stars hide your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires’
‘Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it’

Question 3

Ts3: at the end of the play, Macbeth realises that he has been deceived by the witches and they have led him to damn his soul.

Answer 3

‘Theres daggers in men’s smiles’(?)
‘I have a strange infirmity’
‘Juggling fiends’

Question 4

Topic sentences:

Answer 4

Ts1: witches decieve MB
Ts2: MB tries to hide his ambition after hearing witches prophecies but LMB encourages him to become a decetiful murderer.
Ts3: MB realises at end that he had been deceived by the witches and they have led him to damn his soul.

Question 5

‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair’

Answer 5

L= paradox. That which is good can be evil and vise-versa. The prediction that MB will become king seems to be good but leads him to commit evil.

Question 6

‘Stars hide your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires’

Answer 6

L= rhyming couplet. Light symbolises heaven. Adjectives ‘black’ represents evil; ‘deep’ how deep his ambition is BUT knows killing king is morally wrong.
C= DRK. Killing a king= act against God.

Question 7

‘Look like the innocent flower but be the serpeant under it’(LMB)

Answer 7

L= metaphors. Serpeant represents sin and evil: D= LMB like Eve in Genesis tempting MB to commit sin.
C= James I had a medal struck bearing a flower and snake to commemorate discovery of Gunpowder plot. R= Jacobean audience would recognise this. Shows murderers like MB will be discovered and punished (political message).

Question 8

‘There’s daggers in men’s smiles’(Donalbain)

Answer 8

L= metaphor. Malcolm and Donalbain realise another Thane murdered their father. They cannot trust snyone and must flee to safety.

Question 9

‘I have a strange infirmity’ (Macbeth)

Answer 9

LMB and MB lie and claim MB seeing a ghost is because he suffers from fits and has done since childhood. They arr trying to conceal the murder of Banquo.
R= audience despise MB for lying and for murdering an innocent friend.

Question 10

‘Juggling fiends’ (MB)

Answer 10

L= adj- knows the witches have tricked him and he can be defeated; noun- shows he knows they are evil and have led him to commit evil.
C= warns of dangers of witchcraft; James I wrote ‘Daemonologie’ on the subject.