| who kills macbeth | macduff |
| how many men reign as king of scotland throughout play | 3 (duncan, macbeth, malcolm) |
| whom does lady macbeth frame for murder of duncan | duncan’s drunken chamberlains |
| who kills banquo | group of murderers hired by macbeth |
| describe lady macbeth’s death | dies offstage |
| Who discovers Duncan’s body | macduff |
| Whom does Macbeth see sitting in his chair during the banquet | banquo’s ghost |
| What vision does Macbeth have before he kills Duncan | He sees a floating dagger pointing him to Duncan’s chamber. |
| With whom are the Scots at war at the beginning of the play | norway |
| Which nation’s army invades Scotland at the end of the play | england |
| Who is the goddess of witchcraft in the play | hecate |
| Who kills Donalbain | no one |
| What happens to Lady Macbeth before she dies | plagued by fits of sleepwalking |
| Who kills Lord Siward’s son | macbeth |
| where are scottish kings crowned | scone |
| Why is Macduff able to kill Macbeth despite the witches’ prophecy | he was born by cesarean section |
| where is duncan killed | in his bedchamber at macbeth’s castle |
| Who flees Scotland to join Malcolm in England | macduff |
| What was the weather like the night Duncan was murdered | stormy and violent |
| who kills lady Macbeth | Lady Macbeth |
| Who flees Scotland immediately after Duncan’s death | malcolm and donalbain |
| Who jokes that he works at “hell gate” | the porter |
| What title is Macbeth given after his victory described in Act 1? | thane of cawdor |
| Who tells Macduff that his family has been killed | ross |
| How does Birnam Wood come to Dunsinane | Malcolm’s army hides behind cut-off tree branches |
| The Porter equates drunken lechery with: | equivocation |
| Who says “Fair is foul and foul is fair?” | the witches |
| Macbeth is a play replete with: | supernatural phenomena |
| Lady Macbeth calls on evil spirits to: | unsex her and make her cruel |
| The witches prophesy that Banquo will: | sire a long line of kings |
| Macbeth believes he is led to the sleeping Duncan by: | airborne dagger |
| makes unexpected visit and macbeth’s dinner party | banquo’s ghost |
| who says “so foul and fair a day i have not seen”? | macbeth |
| macbeth’s spoken concern after he kills duncan is that | he will not be able to sleep |
| macbeeth’s major crime is | regicide |
| who says: fair is foul, and foul is fair/Hover through the fog and filthy air” | witches |
| who says: then “so foul and fair a day I have not seen”? | macbeth |
| who says: “Macbeth is murdered sleep | ghost of banquo |
| who is described as “valor’s minion”, | macbeth |
| “unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps, and fix’d his head upon our battlements | macbeth |
| the two truths are told, as happy prologues to the swelling act of the imperial theme…” | macbeth |
| “life is but an active shadow…” | macbeth |
| this supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good, if ill, why hath it given me earnest of success…” | macbeth |
| mean “if it were done with ’tis done, then ’twere well it were done quickly” | macbeth’s soliloquy |
| Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood, Stop up th’access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between Th’ effect and it. Come to my woman’s breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature’s mischief. Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry ‘Hold, hold!’ | lady macbeth |
| Whence is that knocking?— How is’t with me, when every noise appals me? What hands are here! Ha, they pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red. | macbeth hears knocking after he’s killed duncan |
| Out, damned spot; out, I say. One, two,—why, then ’tis time to do’t. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier and afeard? What need we fear who knows it when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? | lady macbeth when sleepwalking |
| She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle. Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. | macbeth after hearing lady macbeth’s death |
| macbeth | -thane of glamis, then thane of cawdor, then king of scotland-not virtuous-brave and powerful-response to every problem is violence or murder-unable to bear psychological consequences of actions-struggles to master: braver, self doubt, ambition-never contemplates suicide-“valor’s minion” by lady macbeth-develops blood lust after first murder |
| lady macbeth | -ambitious, lusts for power and passion-strong and ruthless in beginning and becomes victim of guilt and madness at end-speech implies her influence over macbeth is sexual-masculine soul in female body-becomes less brutal and more human throughout play-invocation of spirits helps become manlike |
| 3 witches/ weird sisters | -understand weakness of people they “help”-bent figures, beards, bizarre potions, prophecies-speak in chymed couplets; comical, male violent, nursery rhymes-most dangerous characters in play-servants of hecate-true identities unclear |
| hecate | -goddess of witchcraft |
| banquo | -thane of scotland-brave, noble, general-prophecy says children will inherit scottish throne-has ambitious thoughts but doesn’t act on them-represents path macbeth doesn’t take (where ambition doesn’t lead to betrayal & murder)-ghost haunts macbeth reminding that he didn’t emulate his reaction to witches’ prophecy-fleance is son |
| fleance | banquo’s son-survives macbeth’s attempt at murder-whereabouts unknown at end |
| macduff | -thane of fife, scottish nobleman-hostile with macbeth from start-becomes leader of crusade to unseat macbeth and place rightful king (malcolm) on throne-desires vengeance for macbeth’s murder of his family |
| king duncan of scotland | -good king, 2 songs – malcolm and donalbain-murdered by macbeth-model of a virtuous, benevolent, farsighted ruler-death symbolizes destruction of an order in scotland (only restored when someone from his line [malcolm] occupies throne |
| malcolm | -duncan’s older son, and bro to donalbain-becomes king after macbeth-becomes challenge to macbeth with macduff’s aid (before was weak and uncertain of own power)-he and donalbain flee scotland after father’s murder |
| iterative imagery | -sleep-blood stains-ill fitting clothing-contrast bw pic and object depicted |
| themes | -corrupting power of unchecked ambition-relationship between cruelty and masculinity -difference between kingship and tyranny -fate and free will-versions of reality-supernatural-violence-equivocation-evil |
| motifs | -hallucination-violence-prophecy |
| symbols | -blood-weather-water |
macbeth
September 10, 2019