Macbeth

Question 1

Ambition - awkward reaction of the prophecies

Answer 1

why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs.

Question 2

Ambition - Lady Macbeth follow evil spirits

Answer 2

unsex me here […] take my milk for gall

Question 3

Ambition - Hallucination of Macbeth’s dark thoughts

Answer 3

dagger of the mind […] a false creation proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain

Question 4

Ambition - Not satisfied with the title

Answer 4

Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren scepter in my gripe

Question 5

Ambition - not returning to normal

Answer 5

I am in blood stepped in so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as going over

Question 6

Ambition - Confident

Answer 6

I bear a charmed life which must not yield To one of woman born

Question 7

Ap vs Re - simile at the start

Answer 7

Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it

Question 8

Ap vs Re - light imagery

Answer 8

hide you fires, let not light see my deep and black desires

Question 9

Ap vs Re - Macduff not telling LM about the murder

Answer 9

The repetition in a woman’s ear would murder as it fell

Question 10

Ap vs Re - Malcolm’s warning

Answer 10

To show an unfelt sorrow is an Office which the false man does easy […] There’s daggers in men’s smiles

Question 11

Ap vs Re - Macbeth pretending to be a welcoming king

Answer 11

Ourself will mingle society And play the humble host

Question 12

Ap vs Re - zoomorphism

Answer 12

O full of scorpions is my mind

Question 13

Guilt - Macbeth after murder

Answer 13

I will go no more. I am afraid to think what I have done

Question 14

Guilt - Macbeth against the murder

Answer 14

as his host, who should against his murtherer shut the door.

Question 15

Guilt - ocean cleaning hand

Answer 15

will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from your hand

Question 16

Guilt - sea becoming red

Answer 16

The multitudinous sea incarnadine, making the green one red

Question 17

Guilt - LM spots

Answer 17

Out, damed spot, Out […] will these hands ne’er be clean?

Question 18

Guilt - perfumes

Answer 18

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.

Question 19

Supernatural - first scene

Answer 19

Fair is foul, foul is fair.&raquo_space; so fair and foul a day I have not seen

Question 20

Supernatural - LM on spirits

Answer 20

Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts

Question 21

Supernatural - dagger

Answer 21

Is this a dagger which I see before me […] Thou marshall’st the way that I was going

Question 22

Supernatural - witches’ rhyming

Answer 22

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Question 23

Supernatural - Macduff’s guilt

Answer 23

My wife and children’s ghosts willl haunt me still.

Question 24

Supernatural - witches making Macbeth confident

Answer 24

Be bloody, bold and resolute. Laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.

Question 25

M's feelings - snake

Answer 25

we have scorched the snake, not killed it. She'll close herself whilst our poor malice Remains in danger of her former teeth

Question 26

M's feelings - Fleance's escape

Answer 26

There the grown serpent lies. The worm that's fled Hath nature that in time will venom breed.

Question 27

M's feelings - Macbeth saying he's not scared

Answer 27

If trembling I inhabit, then protest me The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow

Question 28

M's feelings - Macbeth confident

Answer 28

What need I fear of thee? [...] That will never be. Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root?

Question 29

M's feelings - not scared of the enemies

Answer 29

Bring me no more reports; let them fly all [...] The mind I sway by, and the heart I bear Shall never sag with doubt or shake with fear.

Question 30

M's feelings - fight

Answer 30

I'll fight till, from my bones, my flesh be hacked

Question 31

M's feelings - can't avoid Macduff

Answer 31

Of all men else I have avoided thee. But get thee back; my soul is too much charged with blood of thine already.

Question 32

Supernatural - Banquo's first impression to the witches

Answer 32

so withered and so wild in their attire, That look not like the inhabitants of the earth

Question 33

Banquo - foreshadowing events happen to Macbeth

Answer 33

instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

Question 34

Banquo - being loyal to Duncan even Macbeth tries to influence him

Answer 34

but still keep My bosom franchised and allegiance clear

Question 35

Malcolm encourages Macduff to fight against Macbeth

Answer 35

Be this the whetstone of your sword. Let grief convert to anger. Blunt not the heart, rage it

Question 36

Macduff - describing Duncan's murder

Answer 36

Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence The life of the building

Question 37

Macduff - foreshadow Macbeth's tyranny

Answer 37

Lest our old robes sit easier than our new!

Question 38

Macduff - country

Answer 38

Bleed, bleed, poor country. Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure For goodness dare not cheque thee

Question 39

Macduff - Fight like men

Answer 39

Let us rather Hold fast mortal sword, and like good men Bestride our down-fall'n birthdom

Question 40

Banquo - troubled sleep

Answer 40

And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose

Question 41

Banquo - Macbeth's comment about him

Answer 41

wisdom that doth guide his valor To act in safety. under him My Genius is rebuked as, it is said, Mark Antony's was by Caesar

Question 42

Kingship - Duncan's virtues

Answer 42

plead like angles, trumpet tonged against the deep damnation of his taking off

Question 43

Kingship - Duncan angry of former Thane of Cawdor

Answer 43

No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive Our bosom interest. Go pronounce his present death

Question 44

Kingship - Duncan like Macbeth's castle

Answer 44

hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle senses

Question 45

Kingship - Macbeth about Duncan's death

Answer 45

His silver skin laced with his golden blood; And his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature

Question 46

Kingship - Macbeth knew his title is gone

Answer 46

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more

Question 47

LM - calling Macbeth a coward

Answer 47

thou esteem'st the ornament of life And live a coward in thine own esteem

Question 48

LM - poor cat

Answer 48

Like the poor cat i' the adage

Question 49

LM - kill her babay

Answer 49

Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out

Question 50

LM - pictures

Answer 50

The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil

Question 51

LM - shame of Macbeth

Answer 51

I shame to wear a heart so white

Question 52

LM - what's done is done

Answer 52

Things without remedy should be without regard - what's done is done

Question 53

LM - rather be victim

Answer 53

Tis safer to be that which we destroy, Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy

Question 54

LM - contrasting thoughts

Answer 54

what's done cannot be undone

Question 55

Kingship - Malcolm final speech

Answer 55

We will perform in measure, time and place