Macbeth Analysis

Question 1

Doth unfix my hair

Answer 1

1.3
Said in an aside
Afraid harm has to come to Duncan
Does not want to harm Duncan
Loyal to friend

Question 2

A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, satisfying nothing

Answer 2

5.5
Lady Macbeth dead
Macbeth has lost everything
Power lust lost all
Feels existential nihilism

Question 3

Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor:/ The greatest is behind

Answer 3

1.3
Speaks to himself
Thing he values most is yet to come
Superlative language

Question 4

My dearest love

Answer 4

1.5
First loves Lady Macbeth
Writes to her to tell her about prophecies
Treats her as an equal
Clue to influence she has

Question 5

Tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day

Answer 5

Macbeth is criticising the slowness of time and wants to die- existential nihilsm

Question 6

Is this a dagger I see before me or but a dagger of my mind?

Answer 6

Symbolises a warning of what happens to Macbeth psychologically
ABAB poem in trochee for stressed and unstressed syllable pattern

Question 7

All’s too weak for brave Macbeth

Answer 7

Juxtaposition foreshadows Macbeth’s later descent into witch’s blasphemous regime
Alternatively links to equivocation used to disorientate Macbeth and Banquo’s moral compass