Macbeth

Question 1

Kingship (2)

Answer 1

• fit to govern? No not to live
• noble banquo,, worthy banquo

Question 2

Power (8)

Answer 2

• our country… weeps, it bleeds and each new day a gash is added to her wounds
• lesser than macbeth and greater
• bleed, bleed, poor country!
• new widows howl, new orphans cry
• noble banquo,, worthy banquo
• dead butcher,, turn hellhound,, tyrant
• disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel which smoked with bloody execution
• unseamed him from the nave to th’chops,, brave macbeth

Question 3

Appearance vs reality (10)

Answer 3

• instruments of darkness
• is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?
• stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires
• there’s husbandry in heaven, their candles are all out
• false face must hide what the false heart doth know
• fair is foul and foul is fair
• come, thick night… my keen knife see not the wound it makes
• none of woman born shall harm macbeth
• I fear thou playst most foully for’t
• look like th’innocent flower but be the serpent under’t

Question 4

Gender (8)

Answer 4

• unseamed him from the nave to th’chops,, brave macbeth
• come, you spirits… unsex me here
• have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, and dashed the brains out
• fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty
• I must also feel it as a man
• thy nature it is too full o’th’ milk of human kindness
• when you durst do it, then you were a man,, are you a man?
• before my body I throw my warlike shield

Question 5

Guilt (6)

Answer 5

• will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?
• is this a dagger which I see before me?
• o full of scorpions is my mind
• all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand
• a little water clears us of this deed
• what’s done is done,, what’s done cannot be undone

Question 6

Supernatural (6) - MAC

Answer 6

• is this a dagger which I see before me?
• instruments of darkness
• most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope the Lord’s anointed temple
• to you they have showed some truth
• what, can the devil speak true?
• thou shalt be king hereafter,, greater than both by the all hail hereafter

Question 7

Ambition (7)

Answer 7

• will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?
• disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel which smoked with bloody execution
• dead butcher,, turn hellhound,, tyrant
• to be thus is nothing but to be safely thus
• I may pour my spirits in thine ear
• I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition
• imperfect speakers