First Apparition | Armed Head |
Second Apparition | Bloody Child |
Third Apparition | Child crowned with a tree branch in his hand |
Message of First Apparition | “Beware Macduff, Beware the Thane of Fife” |
Message of Second Apparition | “None of Woman born can harm Macbeth” |
Message of Third Apparition | “Macbeth shall never vanquished be untilGreat Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane HillShall come against him.” |
How did First Apparition come true? | … |
How did Second Apparition come true? | … |
How did Third Apparition come true? | … |
For what monarch was this play written? | James I England / James IV Scotland |
What was Holinshed’s Chronicles? | historical source that helped Shakespeare write this play |
How does Lady Macbeth die? | She kills herself |
What were some of Lady Macbeth’s symptoms of her “illness?” | sleep-walking, sleep-talking, sleep-writing (to Lady Macduff as a warning), admitting to knowing about Duncan’s murder, always needing a light by her side, washing her hands, etc. |
“The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down or else o’erleap for in my way it lies.”Speaker?…about whom? | Macbeth about Malcolm |
“Yet I do fear thy nature; It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way.”Speaker?….to whom? | Lady Macbeth to Macbeth about how he’s too nice to kill Duncan |
“We love him highly and shall continue our graces toward him.”Speaker?…about whom? | Duncan about Macbeth |
“Come seeling night and scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day.”Speaker? | Macbeth |
“Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done it.”Speaker?…about whom? | Lady Macbeth about Duncan |
“Now does he feel his title hang loose about him, Like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief.”Angus is speaking about whom? | Macbeth |
“Fail not our feast.” “My Lord I will not.”Speaker?…Responant? | Macbeth…Banquo |
“Thou canst say I did it! Never shake thy gory locks at me!”Speaker?…about whom/what? | Macbeth to Banquo’s Ghost |
“Naught’s had, all’s spent, where our desire’s got without content.”Speaker? | Lady Macbeth |
“I’ll raise such artificial sprites As by the strength of their illusion shall draw him on his confusion.”Speaker?…about whom? | Hecate about Macbeth |
“Double, double, toil and trouble, Fire burn and cauldron bubble.”Speaker? | The Weird Sisters (The Three Witches) |
“Whither should I fly? I have done no harm. But I remember now that I am in this worldly world Where to do harm is often laudable And to do good is sometime accounted dangerous folly.”Speaker? | Lady Macduff….why should she run away…she has done nothing wrong…who would want to harm her…??? |
“… Were I king, I should cut off the nobles of the landDesire his jewels and this other’s house, and my more-havingShould forge quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,Destroying them for their wealth. I have none of the king-becoming graces.”Speaker? | Malcolm…Malcolm’s test to see if Macduff was going to be loyal to a king worse than Macbeth… |
“The Thane of Fife had a wife,Where is she now? What, will these hands ne’er be clean?”Speaker? | Lady Macbeth…sleep-talking about Duncan’s blood on her hands |
“This disease is beyond my practice.”Speaker?…about whom? | Doctor about Lady Macbeth |
“Remove from her the means of all annoyance.”Speaker?…about whom? | Doctor about Lady Macbeth |
“That which should accompany old age: as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have.”Speaker? | Macbeth |
“But, gentle Heavens, cut short all intermission; Front to front bring thou this fiend of Scotland and Myself; within my sword’s length set him.”Speaker?…about whom? | Macduff about Macbeth |
“Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier’s debt.”Ross is speaking to whom? | Old Siward about his son |
“And be thou these juggling fiends no more believed That palter with us I a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope.” What imagery or motif is being displayed in this quote? | equivocation |
“None of woman born shall harm Macbeth.”What imagery or motif is being displayed in this quote? | equivocation |
“Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill Shall come against him.”What imagery or motif is being displayed in this quote? | equivocation |
“By the clock, ’tis day, And yet dark night strangles the traveler’s lamp.”What imagery or motif is being displayed in this quote? | unnaturalness |
“That guest of summer, the temple-haunting martlet does approve …” What imagery or motif is being displayed in this quote? | bird imagery |
“I heard the owl screech.”What imagery or motif is being displayed in this quote? | bird imagery |
“Here lay Duncan, His silver skin laced with his golden blood; There, the murderers, steeped in the colors of their trade.”What imagery or motif is being displayed in this quote? | blood imagery, color imagery |
“No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine Making the green one red.”What imagery or motif is being displayed in this quote? | color imagery |
“Come seeling night and scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day.”What imagery or motif is being displayed in this quote? | petition for darkness |
“Stars, hide your fires! Let not night see my black and deep desires.”What imagery or motif is being displayed in this quote? | petition for darkness |
“May you see things well done there; adieu! Lest our old robes sit easier than our new!”What imagery or motif is being displayed in this quote? | ill-fitting clothing imagery |
“He cannot buckle his distemper cause Within the belt of rule.”What imagery or motif is being displayed in this quote? | ill-fitting clothing imagery |
“A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, And yet I cannot sleep.”What imagery or motif is being displayed in this quote? | sleeplessness |
“Me thought I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep!'”What imagery or motif is being displayed in this quote? | sleeplessness |
“Sleep shall neither night nor day Hang on his penthouse lid.”What imagery or motif is being displayed in this quote? | sleeplessness |
indicates that several people leave stage | exeuent |
main acting area of Shakespeare’s theatre | Platform |
to use ambiguous expressions with intent to mislead; to lie with the truth | equivocation |
dramatic convention in which a character speaks on stage but some or all of the others on stage “do not hear” his words | aside |
a blast of trumpets used to announce the entry of a royal personage | flourish |
a Scottish title, just below earl | thane |
band of oboe-like instruments, generally used in connection with a procession or banquet | hautboys |
ordinary form of address used in speaking to children and servants | sirrah |
dramatic convention in which a character is alone on stage and speaks his thoughts aloud | soliloquy |
confused sounds of trumpets, drums, voices shouting | alarum |
the country where the play is set??? | Scotland |
Macbeth’s original castle was called ??? | Inverness |
“(x) knits up the raveled sleeve of care, the death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, balm of hurt minds …” | Sleep |
After their father’s (Duncan’s) death, where does each son go? | Donalbain goes to Ireland / Malcolm goes to England |
“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much (x) in him? Fill in the missing…. the (x)… | blood |
royal castle of Macbeth | Forres |
“Look like the innocent flower, but be the (x) under it.” Fill in the missing… the (x)…Motif/Imagery? | serpent / equivocation or animal imagery |
“You all know (x) is mortal’s chiefest enemy.” Fill in the missing… the (x)… | Security / Over-confidence |
What was the title bestowed on Macbeth for bravery in war? | Thane of Cawdor |
Who was named the Prince of Cumberland? | Malcolm |
Who was with Macbeth when he first met the witches? | Banquo |
Who were called the weird sisters? | the witches |
Who killed Macbeth? | Macduff |
Who lost wife and children to Macbeth? | Macduff |
Who was queen of witches, more powerful than the others? | Hecate |
Who believed that the martlets at Inverness were a sign of good luck? | Duncan |
Who was the king murdered by Macbeth? | Duncan |
Who escaped when murderers were sent to him by Macbeth? | Fleance |
Who was the Thane of Fife? | Macduff |
What was the famous theatre where Shakespeare’s plays were performed? | The Globe Theatre |
Who was killed but re-appeared as a ghost? | Banquo |
Who was the first to suspect Macbeth? | Banquo |
Who used a trick to test Macduff’s loyalty? | Malcolm |
Give an example of verbal irony… | … |
Give an example of irony of situation… | … |
Give an example of dramatic irony… | … |
Give an example of tragic irony… | … |
What was Macbeth’s tragic flaw? | “vaulting ambition” |
What was Lady Macbeth’s tragic flaw? | greed |
Macbeth
August 31, 2019