Macbeth

Question 1

What are 3 quotes for ‘Ambition and Power’?

Answer 1

-I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, only vaulting ambition -M,1:7
-Overleaps itself -M,1:7
-When you durst do it, then you were a man -LM,1:7
-Life […] is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing -M,5:5

Question 2

What are 3 quotes for ‘The Supernatural’?

Answer 2

-Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires -M,1:4
-Come, thick night and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of Hell […] nor Heaven peep through -LM,1:5
-The dead butcher and his fiend-like queen -Malcolm,5:9

Question 3

What are 6 quotations for ‘Appearance vs Reality’?

Answer 3

-Come you spirits […] Unsex me here -LM,1:5
-Look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t -LM,1:5
-Out, damned spot! Out, I say! -LM, 5:1
-Out, out, brief candle -M, 5:5
-Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? -M, 2:2
-A little water clears us of this deed -LM, 2:2 (says this after M says Neptune quote to reassure him)
-All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand -LM, 5:1

Question 4

What are 3 quotes about the ‘Corruption of Nature’?

Answer 4

-Fair is foul and foul is fair -Witches, 1:1
-So foul and fair a day I have not seen -M,1:3
-Macbeth does murder sleep! -M, 2:2
-I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry -LM, 2:2

Question 5

It is too full…

Answer 5

o’th’milk of human kindness (1:5)

Question 6

Come, you…

Answer 6

spirits […] unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty (1:5)

Question 7

Come to my…

Answer 7

woman’s breasts and take my milk for gall (1:5)

Question 8

This castle…

Answer 8

hath a pleasant seat; the air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself (1:6)

Question 9

O, full…

Answer 9

of scorpions is my mind, dear wife! (3:2)