Macbeth

Question 1

[Macbeth] context

Answer 1

Seven deadly sins
Jacobean era
King James I
Daemonology
Gender roles/Role of women
Fear of Regicide
Witchcraft
Nobiliy
Great chain of being

Question 2

[Macbeth] themes

Answer 2

Deceit
The Corrupting Power of Unchecked Ambition
The Relationship Between Cruelty and Masculinity
Ambition
Guilt
Children
Persuasion
Nobility
Witchcraft
The super natural

Question 3

Macbeth themes

Answer 3

Hubris resulting in downfall
Heroism
Ambition
Corruption
Deceit

Question 4

Macbeth quotations

Answer 4

“Nothing is but what is not.”
- Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 3)

“Blood will have blood.”
- Macbeth (Act 3 Scene 4)

“How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!”
- Macbeth (Act 4 Scene 1)

Question 5

Macbeth key character moments/narratives

Answer 5

Killing king Duncan

Question 6

Lady Macbeth themes

Answer 6

Gender roles
Ambition
Fate
Family
Violence

Question 7

Lady Macbeth quotations

Answer 7

“Come you spirits, That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here.”
-Lady Macbeth (Act 1, Scene 5)

“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”
-Lady Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 1)

“What’s done cannot be undone.”
-Lady Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 1)

Question 8

Lady Macbeth key character moments/narrative

Answer 8

Manipulating Macbeth
Guilt overcoming her

Question 9

The Witches themes

Answer 9

Supernatural
Manipulation
Corruption
symbolise evil and corruption

Question 10

The witches quotations

Answer 10

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”
-Three Witches (Act 1 Scene 1)

“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.”
-Second Witch (Act 4 Scene 1)

“A deed without a name.”
-Witches (Act 4 Scene 1)

Question 11

The witches key character moments/narrative

Answer 11

Telling Macbeth the prophecies
Telling Banquo the prophecy

Question 12

King Duncan themes

Answer 12

Ambition
Guilt
Kingship
Ambition

Question 13

King Duncan quotations

Answer 13

“Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.”
-King Duncan (Act 1 Scene 4)

“What bloody man is that?”
-King Duncan (Act 1 Scene 2)

‘valiant cousin, worthy gentleman’
-King Duncan (Act 1 Scene 2)

Question 14

King Duncan key character moments/narrative

Answer 14

His killing

Question 15

Banquo themes

Answer 15

Nobel
Honour
Loyality

Question 16

Banquo quotations

Answer 16

“Or have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?”
-Banquo (Act 1 Scene 3)

“What! can the devil speak true?”
-Banquo (Act 1 Scene 3)

“If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not.”
-Banquo (Act 1 Scene 3)

Question 17

Banquo key moments/narrative

Answer 17

He has a prophecy
Killing the Banquo
He is a ghost in the dining hall

Question 18

Macduff themes

Answer 18

Revenge
Honour
Loyality

Question 19

Macduff quotations

Answer 19

“Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.”
-Macduff (Act 5 Scene 6)

“Bleed, bleed, poor country!
Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,
For goodness dare not check thee.”
-Macduff (Act 4 scene 3)

Question 20

Macduff key character moments/narratives

Answer 20

Family’s murder
Loyality to Malcolm

Question 21

Fleance themes

Question 22

Fleance quotations

Question 23

Fleance key character moments/narratives

Question 24

Malcolm themes

Answer 24

He is nobel
juxstaposes Macbeth

Question 25

Malcolm quotations

Question 26

Malcolm key character moments/narratives

Answer 26

Becomes king at the end

Question 27

Lady Macduff and Macduff’s children themes

Question 28

Lady Macduff and Macduff’s children quotations

Question 29

Lady Macduff and Macduff’s children key character moments/naratives