Macbeth

Question 1

Act 1 Quotes - 4

Answer 1

• ‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’ Witches (Scene 1)
• ‘Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires’ Macbeth (Scene 4)
• ‘Come you spirits’, ‘Unsex me here’, ‘Direst cruelty’ Lady Macbeth (Scene 5)
• ‘Yet I do fear thy nature. It is too full o’th’milk of human kindness’ Lady Macbeth (Scene 5)

Question 2

Act 2 Quotes - 5

Answer 2

• ‘Is this a dagger which I see before me?’ Macbeth (Scene 1)
• ‘I dreamt last night of three weird sisters’ Banquo (Scene 1)
• ‘Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done it’ Lady Macbeth (Scene 2)
• ‘Sleep no more, Macbeth does murder sleep’ Macbeth (Scene 2)
• ‘Tis unnatural even like the deed that’s done’ Old Man (Scene 4)

Question 3

Act 3 Quotes - 1

Answer 3

• ‘Naught’s had, all’s spent, where our desire is got without content’ Lady Macbeth (Scene 2)

Question 4

Act 4 Quotes - 2

Answer 4

• ‘Bleed, bleed poor country’, ‘O nation miserable’ Macduff (Scene 3)
• ‘Thy good truth and honour have left me speechless’ (Scene 3)

Question 5

Act 5 Quotes - 3

Answer 5

• ‘Out, damned spot out, I say’ Lady Macbeth (Scene 1)
• ‘Life’s but a walking shadow… It is a tale told by an idiot,… signifying nothing’ Macbeth (Scene 5)
• ‘This dead butcher and his fiend-like queen’ Malcolm (Scene 11)