Macbeth Quotations (Up to Act 3)

Question 1

‘Un___ __ ___’

Answer 1

‘Unsex me here’ - Lady Macbeth, Gender & Supernatural

Question 2

‘ I would, while it was __________________’

Answer 2

‘I would, while it was smiling in my face, /Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums & dashed the brains out’ - Lady Macbeth, Violence & Gender

Question 3

‘Oftentimes, to win _____________’

Answer 3

‘Oftentimes, to win us to our harm /The instruments of darkness tells us truths’ - Banquo, Witches & Supernatural

Question 4

‘Sleep no ________________’

Answer 4

‘Sleep no more: Macbeth does murder sleep’ - Macbeth & Guilt

Question 5

‘Duncan’s ____ […] ‘Tis said, ____________’

Answer 5

‘Duncan’s horses […] ‘Tis said, they eat each other’ - Supernatural & Guilt

Question 6

‘Fair is ________________ air’

Answer 6

‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air.’ - Witches & Supernatural

Question 7

‘So foul _________’

Answer 7

‘So foul and fair a day I have not seen.’ - Macbeth, Witches & Supernatural

Question 8

‘Two truths are ________________’

Answer 8

‘Two truths are told, /As happy prologues to the swelling act /Of the imperial theme.’ - Macbeth & Ambition

Question 9

‘Yet I do fear ________________’

Answer 9

‘Yet I do fear thy nature, /It is too full o’th’milk of human kindness’ - Macbeth, Lady Macbeth & Gender

Question 10

‘When you durst ______________’

Answer 10

‘When you durst do it, then you were a man’ - Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Gender & Guilt

Question 11

‘I have no spur _________ other’

Answer 11

‘I have no spur /To prick the sides of my intent, but only /Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself /And falls on th’other’ - Macbeth & Ambition

Question 12

‘Stars ___________’

Answer 12

‘Stars hide your fires, /Let not light see my black and deep desires,’ - Macbeth & Ambition (Guilt?)