Madness Quotes

Question 1

through Banquo’s doubt about the witches prophecies

Answer 1

“Or have we eaten on the insane root, That takes the reason prisoner?” (Act 1, Scene 3)

Question 2

through Macbeth’s hallucinations

Answer 2

“Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee” (Act 2, Scene 1)

Question 3

through LM’s irony

Answer 3

“These deeds must not be thought After these ways; so, it will make us mad” (Act 2, Scene 2)

Question 4

through the symbol of sleep

Answer 4

“Methought I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more” (Act 2, Scene 2)

Question 5

as shameful

Answer 5

“You do unbend your noble strength to think So brain-sickly of things” (Act 2, Scene 2)

Question 6

as powerful and controlling over Macbeth’s actions

Answer 6

“Thou canst not say I did it; never shake Thy gory locks at me!” (Act 3, Scene 4)

Question 7

through LM’s sleepwalking

Answer 7

“The Thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now? What, will these hands ne’er be clean?” (Act 5, Scene 1)

Question 8

through LM’s suicide

Answer 8

“To bed, to bed, there’s knocking at the gate. Come, come, come, come, give me your hand; what’s done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed” (Act 5, Scene 1)

Question 9

through the mental deterioration of Macbeth

Answer 9

“Some say he’s mad; others lesser haye him Do call it valiant fury” (Act 5, Scene 2)