macbeth

Question 1

‘so foul and fair a day i have not seen’

Answer 1

echoing words of witches

Question 2

‘fair is foul and foul is fair’

Answer 2

paradox - unbalance of nature

Question 3

‘for brave Macbeth- well he deserved that name’

Answer 3

war hero

Question 4

‘say you imperfect speakers’

Answer 4

witches dominate - Macbeth tries to regain power

Question 5

‘have we eaten the insane root’

Answer 5

links to insanity

Question 6

‘unsex me here’

Answer 6

removing femininity

Question 7

‘come to my women’s breasts and take my milk for gall’

Answer 7

contrast between milk and gall

Question 8

‘leave all the rest to me ‘

Answer 8

lady Macbeth taking responsibility and control

Question 9

‘is this a dagger i see before me?’

Answer 9

hallucinations

Question 10

‘a dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat oppressed brain?’

Answer 10

questioning himself - mental suffering

Question 11

‘mine eyes are made the fools o’th’other senses’

Answer 11

eyes are deceived

Question 12

‘nature seems dead , and wicked reams abuse the curtained sleep’

Answer 12

nightmares keeping him awake

Question 13

‘it was the owl that shriek’d, the fatal bellman which gives the sternest good-night’

Answer 13

animal imagery - symbol of death

Question 14

‘i heard the owl scream and the crickets cry’

Answer 14

animal imagery - symbol of death

Question 15

‘tis said they eat each other’

Answer 15

balance of the world is unnatural - roles have been revered

Question 16

‘tis unnatural’

Answer 16

goodness of the world is gone

Question 17

‘Out ,out brief candle life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player’

Answer 17

Life is short and easily taken -goodness gone

Question 18

‘I will not be afraid of death and bane , until birnam forest comes to dunstinane’

Answer 18

Rhyming - repeats apparition

Equivocation

Question 19

‘Hang those that talk of fear’

Answer 19

Ruling through violence

Question 20

‘I have liv’d long enough’

Answer 20

Pressure getting to Macbeth

Question 21

‘His secret murder sticking on his hands’

Answer 21

Tools of murder

Question 22

‘ this disease is beyond my practise’

Answer 22

No one can help lady Macbeth -insanity

Question 23

‘What’s done cannot be undone’

Answer 23

Juxtaposes with her previous views on regicide

Question 24

‘Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles’

Answer 24

Justice - regicide causes unnatural consequences

Question 25

‘God god forgive us all ‘

Answer 25

God is the only help

Question 26

‘Here’s the smell of the blood still’

Answer 26

Guilt consuming sense

Question 27

‘Will these hands ne’er be clean?’

Answer 27

Juxtaposes with act 2 scene 2

Question 28

‘O hell-kite’

Answer 28

Animal imagery reference to hell

Question 29

‘Violent sorrow seems a modern ecstasy’

Answer 29

Order of world changed

Question 30

‘Poor country almost afraid to know itself’

Answer 30

Scotland’s suffering

Question 31

‘Devilish Macbeth’

Answer 31

Evil

Question 32

‘Bleed bleed poor country . Get tyranny.

Answer 32

Great Tiranny - poor ruler

Question 33

‘Damn’d all those that trust them’

Answer 33

Makes Macbeth appear foolish

Question 34

‘But one word more - ‘

Answer 34

Witches have power over Macbeth

Question 35

‘Laugh to scorn, the power of man, for none of women born shall harm Macbeth’

Answer 35

Equivocation - misleads Macbeth

Question 36

‘Something wicked this way comes’

Answer 36

Witches emphasise how evil Macbeth is -dehumanising him

Question 37

‘You lack the season ps of all natures sleep’

Answer 37

Lack of sleep - causing own harm

Question 38

‘Blood will have blood’

Answer 38

Cycle of unjustified murders

Question 39

‘ are u a man ?’

Answer 39

Emasculating Macbeth

Question 40

‘And with thy bloody and invisible hand’

Answer 40

Guilt and stain of regicide

Question 41

‘O full of scorpions is in my mind’

Answer 41

Mind poisoned by guilt

Question 42

‘What’s done is done’

Answer 42

Lack of guilt