Macbeth

Question 1

Ambition, Tragic Flaw, Downfall

Answer 1

“Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself” – Macbeth (Act 1, Scene 7)

Question 2

Appearance vs Reality, Deception, Gender Roles

Answer 2

“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t” – Lady Macbeth (Act 1, Scene 5)

Question 3

Supernatural, Guilt, Fate vs Free Will, Appearance vs Reality

Answer 3

“Is this a dagger which I see before me…?” – Macbeth (Act 2, Scene 1)

Question 4

Guilt, Madness, Conscience

Answer 4

“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!” – Lady Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 1)

Question 5

Supernatural, Appearance vs Reality, Evil

Answer 5

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair” – Witches (Act 1, Scene 1)

Question 6

Gender Roles, Ambition, Power, Evil

Answer 6

“Unsex me here” – Lady Macbeth (Act 1, Scene 5)

Question 7

Guilt, Conscience, Deception

Answer 7

“A little water clears us of this deed” – Lady Macbeth (Act 2, Scene 2)

Question 8

Guilt, Violence, Conscience

Answer 8

“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?” – Macbeth (Act 2, Scene 2)

Question 9

Paranoia, Guilt, Ambition, Mental State

Answer 9

“O full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!” – Macbeth (Act 3, Scene 2)

Question 10

Evil, Supernatural, Macbeth’s Transformation

Answer 10

“Something wicked this way comes” – Second Witch (Act 4, Scene 1)

Question 11

Fate, Paradox, Supernatural Influence

Answer 11

“So foul and fair a day I have not seen” – Macbeth (Act 1, Scene 3)

Question 12

Supernatural, Deception, Fate

Answer 12

“The instruments of darkness tell us truths” – Banquo (Act 1, Scene 3)

Question 13

Loyalty, Betrayal, Appearance vs Reality

Answer 13

“He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust” – Duncan (Act 1, Scene 4)

Question 14

Deception, Appearance vs Reality

Answer 14

“There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face” – Duncan (Act 1, Scene 4)

Question 15

Justice, Patriotism, Tyranny

Answer 15

“Bleed, bleed, poor country!” – Macduff (Act 4, Scene 3)

Question 16

Revenge, Masculinity, Justice

Answer 16

“Let grief convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it” – Malcolm (Act 4, Scene 3)

Question 17

Judgement, Evil, Justice

Answer 17

“This dead butcher and his fiend-like queen” – Malcolm (Act 5, Scene 9)

Question 18

Guilt, Consequences, Conscience

Answer 18

“Macbeth does murder sleep” – Macbeth (Act 2, Scene 2)

Question 19

Futility, Death, Nihilism, Fate

Answer 19

“Life’s but a walking shadow… a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” – Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5)

Question 20

Supernatural, Trust, Deception

Answer 20

“What, can the devil speak true?” – Banquo (Act 1, Scene 3)