simplified macbeth quotes

Question 1

“ fair is foul and foul is fair “ - witches

Answer 1

equivocal language
- so foul and fair a day i have not seen
rhyming couplets

Question 2

is this a dagger i see before me, the handle towards my hand “ - macbeth

Answer 2

soliloquy
supernatural influence on madness

Question 3

“come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here” - lady macbeth

Answer 3

subvert Jacobean stereotypes
wants dark forces to strip her of her femininity

Question 4

“ never shake thy gory locks at me “ - macbeth

Question 5

by the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes - second witch

Answer 5

even the witches sense macbeths decent into unnatural evil

Question 6

i had most need of blessing and ‘Amen’ stuck in my throat “ - macbeth

Answer 6

betrayed god by the act of regicide
immediate sense of guilt and spiritual disconnection
shakespeare uses this moment to show how murder corrupts not only macbeth’s conscience but also his soul
spiritually damned

Question 7

“ instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betrays in deepest consequence” - banquo

Answer 7

banquo is a foil to macbeth

Question 8

stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires - macbeth

Answer 8

asking for their evil to be hidden from god
rejection and betrayal of god

Question 9

a dagger of the mind - macbeth

Answer 9

metaphor

Question 10

he hath wisdom that doth guide his valor to act in safety - macbeth about BANQUO

Answer 10

macbeth realises banquo has the ability to restrain his ambition unlike himself

Question 11

banquo is a moral COUNTERPOINT to macbeth

Question 12

look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow, and will shall not, speak them to me!” banquo

Answer 12

command

Question 13

o’full of scorpions is my mind dear wife

Question 14

“it is too full of the milk of human kindness“

lady macebth about macbeth

Answer 14

shows lm ambition for POWER

Question 15

“when you durst do it, then you were a man”

Answer 15

heinous belittling of macbeths masculinity
emasculates macbeth

Question 16

“dashed the brains out”

Answer 16

infanticide
jacobean audience horrified
advert dashed - violent imagery

Question 17

ambition is presented as

Answer 17

• the hamartia ( downfall )
• controlling
• delusion inducing

Question 18

peripeteia

Answer 18

A sudden and unexpected reversal of fortune, often used to describe Macbeth’s downfall.

Question 19

when shall we three meet again / in thunder lighting or rain

Answer 19

foreshadows
pathetic fallacy

Question 20

the charms wound up

Answer 20

spell is complete on macbeth

Question 21

darkness doth the face of earth

Answer 21

affect of ambition and regicide

Question 22

turn’d wild in nature

Answer 22

breakdown of nature