Macbeth

Question 1

By the pricking of my thumbs,

Answer 1

Something wicked this way comes
(Macbeth foreshadowing)

Question 2

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light

Answer 2

see my black and deep desires
(Macbeth)

Question 3

What’s done cannot

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be undone
(Macbeth)

Question 4

Look like the innocent flower,

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But be the serpent under’t
(Lady macbeth)

Question 5

Yet do I fear thy nature.

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It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness
(Lady macbeth)

Question 6

Will all great Neptune’s ocean

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wash this blood clean from my hand?

Question 7

his silver skin laced with his golden blood,

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and his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature
(Macbeth about duncan)

Question 8

O, full of ???? Is my ????

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O, full of scorpions is my mind
(Macbeth)

Question 9

It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day

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a gash is added to her wounds.
(Malcom about scotland)

Question 10

Out, out, brief candle

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Life’s but a walking shadow,
(Macbeth)

Question 11

All the perfumes of Arabia

Answer 11

will not sweeten this little hand
(Lady macbeth)

Question 12

Out, damned spot!

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out, I say!
(Lady macbeth)

Question 13

Do not shake

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Thy glory locks at me
(Macbeth to banquos ghost)

Question 14

Oh valiant cousin!

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worthy gentleman!
(Duncan irony)

Question 15

Fair is foul and

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foul is fair
(Witches not everything Is it seems)

Question 16

I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent,

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but only vaulting ambition which o’erleap itself
(Macbeth ambition)

Question 17

Rapt

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withal
(Banquo believes macbeth is wrapped up in the witches prophecies)

Question 18

The instruments of darkness tell us truths, [..]

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to betray In deepest consequence.
(Banquo paradoxical nature of evil)

Question 19

Have we eaten of the insane root

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that takes the reason prisoner?
(Banquo refers to witches being poisonous)

Question 20

cannot be ill,

Answer 20

cannot be good
(Macbeths first thought of witches conspiracy

Question 21

Till he unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps,

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And fix’d his head upon our battlements
(Macbeth brutality foreshadowing)

Question 22

(Aside) If chance will have me king, why,

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then chance may crown me without my stir
(Macbeth soliloquy hopes for a way out killing the king)

Question 23

Unsex me here and fill me from the

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crown to the toe top-full with direst cruelty
(Lady macbeth)

Question 24

Amen stuck

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in my throat
(Macbeth after killing Duncan)

Question 25

When thou durst do it,

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then thou were a man (Lady macbeth stating macbeth will only become a man when he kills Duncan)

Question 26

dashed the brains out,

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had I so sworn as you have done (Lady macbeth would kill her baby if she said she would)

Question 27

Lesser than Macbeth,

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and greater (Witches describing banquo as better due to his children becoming king)

Question 28

If a man were porter of hell-gate,

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he should have old turning the key (Porter describes macbeths castle as hell)

Question 29

Most ???? murder

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sacrilegious (Macduff understands Duncans murder will disrupt the natural order)

Question 30

Upon my head they placed a

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fruitless crown And put a barren sceptre in my grip (Macbeth feels his title is worthless as his descendants will not be king)

Question 31

I fear thou play’dst

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most foully for’t (Banquo about macbeth becoming king)

Question 32

To be thus is nothing

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but to be safely thus (Macbeth believes killing banquo will make him safer)

Question 33

We have scorched the snake,

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not killed it (Macbeth must kill the snake by killing banquo)

Question 34

Lady Macbeth: “Are you a man?”

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Macbeth: “Ay, and a bold one that dare look on that which might appal the devil.” (Questioning macbeths masculinity macbeth believes his actions have even appalled the devil)

Question 35

I am in blood, stepped in so far that, should I wade no more,

Answer 35

Returning were as tedious as to go o’er (Macbeth is at the point of no return)

Question 36

by the strength of their illusion I

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shall draw him on to his confusion (Hecate head witch showing deception of macbeth)

Question 37

This tyrant, whose sole name

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blisters our tongues, Was once thought honest (Macduff mentions how macbeth has changed)

Question 38

Thy royal father Was a most sainted king: the queen that bore thee,

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Oftener upon her knees than on her feet (Macduff comparing Duncan to macbeth and Lady macbeth)

Question 39

I begin to doubt the equivocation

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of the fiend that lies like truth (Macbeth realises the witches have deceived him)

Question 40

I will not yield to kiss the ground

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before young Malcolm’s feet (Macbeth will not surrender)

Question 41

So foul and fair a

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day I have not seen, (Macbeth following same paradoxical language as witches)