Macbeth - kingship

Question 1

Who?

Answer 1

Duncan
Macbeth
Malcolm

Question 2

What?

Answer 2

Great Chain of Being

Question 3

When?

Answer 3

throughout the play, focus on the divine right

Question 4

Where?

Answer 4

through contrasting depictions of Duncan and Malcolm
king’s castle

Question 5

Why?

Answer 5

central theme
exploring its divine right
consequences of taking the throne
contrast between good and evil rulers

Question 6

‘Divine right..

Answer 6

..of Kings’

Question 7

‘most sainted..

Answer 7

..king’

Question 8

‘temple..

Answer 8

..of virtue’

Question 9

‘king..

Answer 9

..hereafter’

Question 10

‘dark strangles..

Answer 10

..the travelling lamp’

Question 11

‘Turn’d wild in..

Answer 11

..nature, broke their stalls, flung out’

Question 12

‘When you durst do..

Answer 12

..it, then you were a man’

Question 13

‘Banquo was..

Answer 13

..your enemy’

Question 14

‘Thou shall..

Answer 14

..not live’

Question 15

‘If thou speaks..

Answer 15

..false, thou shall be hanged’

Question 16

‘by the grace..

Answer 16

..of grace’

Question 17

‘thank to all..

Answer 17

..at once’

Question 18

‘to call home..

Answer 18

..our exiled friends abroad’

Question 19

‘we will perform..

Answer 19

..in measure, time and place’

Question 20

‘dead butcher..

Answer 20

..and his fiend-like queen’

Question 21

‘we should be more..

Answer 21

..careful than before’

Question 22

‘I think our country sink beneath the..

Answer 22

..yoke. It weeps, it bleeds’

Question 23

‘the bloody..

Answer 23

..tyrant dead and peace restored’

Question 24

‘Hail, King..

Answer 24

..of Scotland!’

Question 25

Conclusion key ideas

Answer 25

- cyclical nature - influence of the supernatural --> mention absence of the supernatural at the end

Question 26

Conclusion opening sentence

Answer 26

Ultimately, Shakespeare uses 'Macbeth' to explore the contrast of the legitimate rule of King Duncan, and Malcolm at the end, with the usurper, Macbeth, who abuses power.

Question 27

'Our suffering..

Answer 27

..country/Under a hand accursed!' said by Lennox in Act 3 - the middle

Question 28

'Our suffering country/Under a hand accursed!'

Answer 28

consequence of Macbeth's usurpation Macbeth is a tyrant who rules by violence - shows what the patriotic nobles on Malcolm's side think of him