Lady Macbeth

Question 1

Who is Lady Macbeth?

Answer 1

She is an incredibly ambitious woman, taking charge and manipulating her husband right from the start of the play. She is ruthless in her pursuit for power, taking full control of the plot to kill Duncan

Question 2

What does she begin to suffer as the play progresses?

Answer 2

The ill effects of committing regicide (killing a King) and deteriorates to the point that she takes her own life

Question 3

What does she change the views of in the play?

Answer 3

The stereotypical gender roles which were prevalent at the time

Question 4

What is the quote starting with, “I do fear…”?

Answer 4

“I do fear thy nature, / It is too full o’th’ milk of human kindness” (Act 1, Scene 5)

Question 5

What is the quote starting with, “Hither…”?

Answer 5

“Hither, / That I may pour my spirits in thine ear, / And chastise with the valour of tongue / All that impedes thee from the golden round” (Act 5, Scene 1)

Question 6

What is the quote starting with, “The raven…”?

Answer 6

“The raven himself is hoarse / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan” (Act 1, Scene 5)

Question 7

What is the quote starting with, “Come you spirits…”?

Answer 7

“Come you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe / Of direst cruelty” (Act 1, Scene 5)

Question 8

What is the quote starting with, “Come to my…”?

Answer 8

“Come to my woman’s breasts, / And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers” (Act 1, Scene 5)

Question 9

What is the quote starting with, “Come thick…”?

Answer 9

“Come thick night, / And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell” (Act 1, Scene 5)

Question 10

What is the quote starting with, “Great Glamis…”?

Answer 10

“Great Glamis, worthy Cawdor, / Greater than both, by the all hail hereafter” (Act 1, Scene 5)

Question 11

What is the quote starting with, “O never…”?

Answer 11

“O never / Shall sun that morrow see” (Act 1, Scene 5)

Question 12

What is the quote starting with, “Thy letters…”?

Answer 12

“Thy letters have transported me beyond / This ignorant present” (Act 1, Scene 5)

Question 13

What is the quote starting with, “Look like the…”?

Answer 13

“Look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under’t” (Act 1, Scene 5)

Question 14

What is the quote starting with, “You shall put…”?

Answer 14

“You shall put / This night’s great business into my dispatch” (Act 1, Scene 5)

Question 15

What is the quote starting with, “From this…”?

Answer 15

“From this time / Such I account thy love” (Act 1, Scene 7)

Question 16

What is the quote starting with, “What beast was’t…”?

Answer 16

“What beast was’t then / That made you break this enterprise to me?” (Act 1, Scene 7)

Question 17

What is the quote starting with, “I would…”?

Answer 17

“I would, whilst it was smiling in my face, / Have plucked the nipple from his boneless gums, / And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this” (Act 1, Scene 7)

Question 18

What is the quote starting with, “Had he not…”?

Answer 18

“Had he not resembled / My father as he slept, I had done’t” (Act 2, Scene 2)

Question 19

What is the quote starting with, “A little water…”?

Answer 19

“A little water clears us of this deed” (Act 2, Scene 2)

Question 20

What is the quote starting with, “Where our…”?

Answer 20

“Where our desire is got without content” (Act 3, Scene 2)

Question 21

What is the quote starting with, “Out, damned…”?

Answer 21

“Out, damned spot: out, I say” (Act 5, Scene 1)

Question 22

What does Lady Macbeth keep think she sees as the play progresses?

Answer 22

She thinks that she sees blood on her hands - perhaps a manifestation of the guilt she failed to feel immediately after the murder

Question 23

What is the quote starting with, “My hands are…”?

Answer 23

“My hands are of your colour; but I shame / To wear a heart so white” (Act 2, Scene 2)