important events

Question 1

act 1 scene 1

Answer 1

The witches meeting and prophecy

Question 2

act 1 scene 3

Answer 2

Macbeth and Banquo meet the witches and learn their fates - “Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter”:W

Question 3

act 1 scene 5

Answer 3

Lady Macbeth reacts to Macbeth’s letter - 2 soliloquies - “unsex me here”: LM

Question 4

act 1 scene 7

Answer 4

Lady Macbeth manipulates Macbeth - plan to kill Duncan- “I have no spur to prick the side of my intent but only vaulting ambition”:M

Question 5

act 2 scene 1

Answer 5

dagger scene- “Is this a dagger that I see before me, the handle toward my hand. Come, let me clutch thee”:M

Question 6

act 2 scene 2

Answer 6

Macbeth’s guilt after killing Duncan, Lady Macbeth’s response- “a little water clears us of this deed”:LM

Question 7

act 2 scene 3/4

Answer 7

ross comments on disturbance on natural world disturbance after regicide

Question 8

act 3 scene 1

Answer 8

Macbeth is worried about Banquo, plans murder- “to be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus”:M

Question 9

act 3 scene 2

Answer 9

Macbeth expresses his concern to Lady Macbeth: “O’ full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife”:M

Question 10

act 3 scene 3

Answer 10

Banquo is killed, Fleance escapes- “Fly, good Fleance, fly!”:B

Question 11

act 3 scene 4

Answer 11

Banquo’s ghost appears at banquet- “Thy bone is marrowless, thy blood is cold”:M

Question 12

act 4 scene 1

Answer 12

Macbeth visits witches and apparitions again- “Macbeth shall never vanquished be” “Seize upon Fife”:W

Question 13

act 4 scene 2

Answer 13

Lady Macduff and kids are murdered- “he has kill’d me mother”:MD son

Question 14

act 4 scene 3

Answer 14

Macduff reacts to the death of his family: “let grief convert to anger”:MC
“Within my sword’s length set him”:MD

Question 15

act 5 scene 1

Answer 15

Lady Macbeth’s madness- “What will these hands ne’er be clean”:LM

Question 16

act 5 scene 3

Answer 16

Macbeth’s isolation and defiance- “my life has fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf”:M

Question 17

act 5 scene 8

Answer 17

Macbeth and Macduff meet and fight- “Why should I play the Roman fool and die on my own sword”

Question 18

act 5 scene 5

Answer 18

Macbeth’s speech about his and Lady Macbeth’s life- “Life’s but a walking shadow”

Question 19

act 5 scene 9

Answer 19

Malcolm is appointed as king- “The usurper’s cursed head”