Macbeth

Question 1

‘the life to come ‘

Answer 1

implying that he is sacrificing his eternal life on heaven so that he can enjoy power and status during his finite life on Earth

Question 2

blood will have blood

Answer 2

S argues that violence breeds more violence ,macbeth is trapped in a cycle of bloodhsed and conflict

Question 3

Vaulting ambition which overleaps itself and falls on the other side

Answer 3

overestimate his abilituies - metaphor of horse racing ,the motif evokes a sense of rush to the finish

Macbeth sees himself as both the hoprse and jockey and as he tries to control his ambition he is reduced from - to - he bceomes more animilastuic

Question 4

“For brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name - / Disdaining Fortune, with his
brandished steel, / Which smoked with bloody execution, / Like Valour’s minion
carved out his passage / Till he faced the slave, / Which ne’er shook hands, nor
bade farewell to him, / Till he unseamed him from the nave to th’chaps / And fixed
his head upon our battlements.”

Answer 4

violence and bloodshed are romanticised in the context of war
S is criticising the aggressive masculinity

metaphor - smoked - implies violenvce is destructife force - angels were granted flaming swords to guard

similie valours minion - epitome of courage and chivalry

disdaining fortune - foreshadowing as he tries to dodge destiny
more foreshadowing

Question 5

Stars, hide your fires; / Let not light see my black and deep desires: / The eye
wink at the hand; yet let that be, / Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.” -
Macbeth (A1S4

Answer 5

duality between light and dAark is a symbol of conflict in M,acbeth

metaphor - eye wink at the hand - synecdoche - eye is conscience and the hand is actions
herores immortalized in stars or gods or the heavens

Question 6

“Out, out, brief candle! / Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player / That struts
and frets his hour upon the stage / And then is heard no more. It is a tale / Told by
an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.” - Macbeth (A5S5)

Answer 6

change in tone and pathos ,this soliloquy gives the idea that Macbeth has awakened

the imagery and metaphors emphasize how life is facade .The nouns ‘candle’ ‘shadow’‘player’‘tale ‘ all connotes limitation and emptiness and they are all temporary and delicate

semantic field of facade show how people focus on the wrong things
the extended metphior of theatre is a meta echnique by Shakespeare almost breaking the fourth wall