Macbeth

Question 1

what is dramatic irony?

Answer 1

where the audience is aware of something that the characters are not

Question 2

How is dramatic irony presented in Macbeth?

Answer 2

The audience is aware of Macbeth’s ambitious nature and knows that he has serious thoughts about murdering the king. However, King Duncan doesn’t know this

Question 3

what is the effect of dramatic irony?

Answer 3

It creates suspense and worries

Question 4

2 quotes that best represent expectation vs reality

Answer 4

“look like an innocent flower but be the serpent under it”

“False face must hide what the false heart doth(do) know.”

Question 5

3 visions the witches have given Macbeth

Answer 5

“All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis!”
“All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!”
“All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!”

Question 6

Which quote from Macbeth shows that Banquo doesn’t believe in the witches

Answer 6

“What, can the devil speak true”?

Question 7

Quote that persuades Macbeth to kill the king told by Lady M

Answer 7

”

It is too full of the milk of human kindness”

Question 8

“I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which overleaps itself
And falls on the other”

Answer 8

The passage describes the tension between Macbeth’s unwillingness to move ahead with his plan, and his acknowledgment that his ambition is leading him down a dangerous path

Question 9

“Art not without ambition, but without

The illness should attend it”

Answer 9

Reflects Lady Macbeth’s own philosophy of power in which only people who have great ambition will achieve their dreams

Question 10

“There is no art to find minds construction in the face”

Answer 10

Dramatic irony showing Duncan’s worship as a leader and his innocentness

Question 11

“Stars, hide your fires let not light see my black and deep desires”

Answer 11

A metaphor to reflect on Macbeth’s wrong ambition

Question 12

“Here lay Duncan, his silver skin laced with his golden blood”

Answer 12

Symbolizes that Macbeth still has respect for Duncan and shows that he is actually Lady M’s victim

Question 13

“as the weird women promised, and I fear

Thou played’st most foully for it”

Answer 13

Banquo suspects Macbeth that all the visions have came true and thinks he might have done something wrong to achieve it

Question 14

“Fly good Fleance, thou may revenge”

Answer 14

Banquo’s last words insist Fleance fight revenge, the witches vision come true

Question 15

“This disease is beyond my practice”

Answer 15

Suggests that such a strong ambition is uncurable, Metaphor “disease”

Question 16

What is the keyword for the violation of accepting the social hierarchy?

Answer 16

Transgressive

Question 17

A quote that best describes the lack of transgression Macbeth had at the start?

Answer 17

“to be king stands not within the prospect of belief”

Question 18

Macbeth and Lady M’s different attitudes towards guilt

Answer 18

“Will great Neptune’s Ocean wash this blood clean from my hand”

“My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white”

Question 19

What is blood metaphoric for in Macbeth

Answer 19

Guilt

Question 20

“Is this a dagger which I see before me?”

Answer 20

The fact that Macbeth is troubled enough to hallucinate proves Macbeth’s guilt of his actions. In contrast with his later mental state when he clearly believes he sees Banquo’s ghost even though Lady M tells him there is no one there.