Macky Boo

Question 1

Moments of Supernatural in Macbeth

Answer 1

• the witches and their prophecies- catalyst for M ambition orpush him to commit regicide-lured into it

• lady Macbeth calling on “spirits”

• Hallucinations of daggers (M)

• banquo’s ghost

• Hecate and the witches

• lady Macbeth sleepwalking (rhyming and all that jazz)

Question 2

Moments of guilt in Macbeth

Answer 2

• BLOOD

• banquo’s ghost- “don’t shake thy gory locks at me”

• “Macbeth hath murdered sleep”

• “Neptune’s oceans” - can’t ask for help from the Christian god due to going against the divine right of kings

• Lady Macbeth sleepwalking - “out damned spot” , “all the perfumes of Arabia” cannot clear the blood off her hands

Question 3

Ambition in Macbeth

Answer 3

• witches prophecy-catalyst for M

• LM pushing M to kill Duncan and take the throne-no sense of morality

• murdering Duncan

• “is this a dagger I see before me” soliloquy

• hiring murderers to kill Banquo- eliminates those he sees as a threat to his reign

• ambition leads to paranoia- both M and LM

• banquo’s contrasting ambition-does not care his sons will be king

Question 4

Duncan

Answer 4

•King of Scotland
•murdered by Macbeth
•true and gracious king-appointed by god (Devine right of kings)

Question 5

Malcom

Answer 5

•Duncan’s eldest son
•named next king of Scotland
•after Duncan’s murder, he escapes to England
•at the end of the play, he is crowned king

Question 6

Macbeth

Answer 6

•thank of glamis
•a mighty and ambition warrior “brave Macbeth”
•killed traitor thane of Cawdor
•hears prophecy he will be king, fuels his ambition
•becomes a cruel and unjust ruler
At the end of the play, he is killed by Macduff

Question 7

Lady Macbeth

Answer 7

•more ambitious than her husband
•no regard for morality, refuses to understand husbands doubts
•husband and wife are at first affectionate, hiding nothing from eachother, but gradually this relationship is destroyed
•suffers from nightmares near the end of the play
•finally kills herself

Question 8

Banquo

Answer 8

•he and Macbeth are the leaders of Duncan’s army
•not so conspicuously valiant as Macbeth
•prophesied his sons will be king, takes no action in fulfilling this
•killed by murderers working for Macbeth

Question 9

Macduff

Answer 9

•Scottish thane
•first to discover Duncan’s body
•Macbeth is partially afraid of him
•born via c-section
•Macbeth orders murders to kill his wife and children
•persuades Malcom to lead an army against Macbeth
•He kills Macbeth and puts his head on a spike