Macbeth

Question 1

‘fair is foul, foul is fair’

Answer 1

paradox - unbalance of nature

Question 2

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

Answer 2

echoing words of witches

Question 3

‘for brave Macbeth- well he deserved that name’

Answer 3

war hero

Question 4

‘say you imperfect speakers’

Answer 4

watches 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 breast 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

Question 11

‘mine eye 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 hi 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 eachother’

Answer 15

balance of the word is unnatural

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 goodness gone

Question 18

‘Hang those that talk or fear’

Answer 18

Ruling through violence

Question 19

‘I have liv’d long enough’

Answer 19

Pressure getting to Macbeth

Question 20

‘His secret murder sticking on his hands’

Answer 20

Tools of murder

Question 21

‘This disease is beyond my practice’

Answer 21

No one can help lady Macbeth - insanity

Question 22

‘What’s done cannot be undone’

Answer 22

Juxtaposes with her previous views on regicide

Question 23

‘Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles’

Answer 23

Justice - regicide causes unnatural consequences

Question 24

‘God god forgive us all’

Answer 24

God is the only help

Question 25

‘Here’s the smell of the blood still’

Answer 25

Guilt consuming sense

Question 26

‘Will these hands ne’er be clean?’

Answer 26

Juxtaposes with act 2 scene 2

Question 27

‘O hell-kite’

Answer 27

Animal imagery reference to hell

Question 28

‘Violent sorrow seems a modern ecstasy’

Answer 28

Order of world changed

Question 29

‘Poor country almost afraid to know itself’

Answer 29

Scotland’s suffering

Question 30

‘devilish Macbeth’

Answer 30

Evil

Question 31

‘Bleed bleed poor country - get tyranny’

Answer 31

Great Tiranny - poor ruler

Question 32

‘Damon’s all those that trust them’

Answer 32

Makes Macbeth appear foolish

Question 33

‘But one word more’

Answer 33

Witches have power over Macbeth

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Equivocation - misleads Macbeth

Question 35

‘Something wicked this way comes’

Answer 35

Witches emphasises how evil Macbeth is - dehumanising him

Question 36

‘You lack the season ps of all nature’s sleep’

Answer 36

Lack of sleep - causing own harm

Question 37

‘Blood will have blood’

Answer 37

Cycle of unjustified murders

Question 38

‘Are you a man?’

Answer 38

Emasculates Macbeth