Mb quotations

Question 1

Quotations from Rebellion against Scotland

Answer 1

• “ne’er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him”
• “unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps”
• “or memorise another Golgotha”
  “O valliant cousin, O worthy gentleman”

Question 2

Key events of Rebellion against Scotland

Answer 2

Mb’s killing of Macdonald is reported and praised

Question 3

Quotations from Mb’s first Meeting w/ witches

Answer 3

• “Why do I yield to that suggestion / Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair”
• “If chance will have me King, why, chance may crown me without my stir”

Question 4

Key details from first meeting w/ witches

Answer 4

• DON’T TELL HIM TO DO ANYTHING!
• They tell him he will be Thane of Cawdor and that he will be king
  o He becomes ToC shortly after, so logically he will become King without his input. Despite this, he turns to the idea of murder anyway.

Question 5

Quotations of Mb writing to LMb

Answer 5

• “my dearest partner of greatness”
• “what greatness is promised thee”
• “too full o’ th’milk of human kindness”

Question 6

Quotations of the plan to kill D

Answer 6

• “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on th’other”
  “My dearest partner of greatness”

Question 7

Key details of the plan to kill D

Answer 7

Mb doesn’t mention LMb in his soliloquy before he kills D
This suggests he wants to do it anyway

Question 8

What is Shakespeare’s political message regarding reactions to the regicide?

Answer 8

destroys the Great Chain of Being, it’s an attack on God (political message)

Question 9

Quotations for Mb’s reactions to the murder of Duncan

Answer 9

· “To know my deed, ‘twere best not know myself”
“Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!”
“silver skin lac’d with his golden blood”

Question 10

Quotations for nature’s reactions to the regicide

Answer 10

“A falcon, tow’ring in her pride of place, / Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.”
“’Tis said [Duncan’s horses] eat eachother.”

Question 11

Mb’s plan to kill Bq - details

Answer 11

· Both support the plan BUT Mb doesn’t let LMb plan it.

Question 12

Quotation for Bq’s ghost

Answer 12

“Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake thy gory locks at me”

Question 13

Why does Mb see Bq’s ghost?

Answer 13

GUILT LOL

Question 14

Quotation of second meeting w/ witches + simple analysis

Answer 14

· “By the pricking of thy thumbs, Something wicked this way comes”: The witches are not the most evil! Mb is worse. Proves Mb isn’t driven by Witches’ power, but his own evil (bloodlust)

Question 15

Quotations for decides to kill Md’s family

Answer 15

“give to the edge o’ the sword / His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls / That trace him in his line”

“I am in blood stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er”

Question 16

Quotations for LMb sleepwalking

Answer 16

“Here’s the smell of blood still”
“The Thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now?”

Mb’s reactions - he knows witches lied. Too many lords have abandoned him

“damn’d all those that trust them!”

Question 17

Quotations for Mb’s reactions to death of LMb (and his following mental state)

Answer 17

: “Out, out, brief candle!”,
“She should’ve died hereafter”.

“a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/ Signifying nothing”,
“a poor player”
“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, / Creeps in this petty pace from day to day”
“Why should I play the Roman fool, and die On mine own sword?”

Question 18

Quotations for fight w Md and Mb

Answer 18

“thou loosest labour”
“What’s he that was not born of woman?”

When he finds out Md was born by C-section: “I’ll not fight with thee”

“live to be the show and gaze o’ th’time” … “as our rarer monsters are”

Question 19

Quotations for the very ending

Answer 19

Mb is a “dead butcher”
LMb is a “fiend-like queen”