Supernatural

Question 1

Introduces the witches’ paradoxical worldview and blurs moral boundaries.

Answer 1

Fair is foul, and foul is fair

Question 2

Macbeth hallucinates a dagger leading him to murder, symbolising supernatural temptation.

Answer 2

Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?

Question 3

She calls on dark forces to strip her of femininity and conscience.

Answer 3

Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here

Question 4

The witches sense Macbeth’s approach—he has become the wicked force.

Answer 4

By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.

Question 5

Their incantation reflects chaos and evil, reinforcing their supernatural power

Answer 5

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble

Question 6

The witches’ unnatural appearance challenges gender norms and natural order

Answer 6

You should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so.

Question 7

Banquo warns that the witches may lure with truth to destroy

Answer 7

The instruments of darkness tell us truths…to betray us