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What 3 qualities define a King? Piety, humbleness and temperance. Examples of piety? Old Man giving his blessing, Macbeth murdering the guards breaking the hierarchy under God, Macbeth talking about the devil is disobedient. Examples of temperance? terrible desires within…

witch predicts with a sense of foreboding Macbeth’s arrival By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Start of witches chant, menacing atmosphere double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. Macbeth demands answers from…

The setting of the play is primarily in Scotland It is believed that Shakespeare wrote this play largely to please whom? King James I At the beginning of the play, Scotland is at war with which country? Norway An extended…

Think about Macbeth’s statement, “To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus” (pg39) What does this line mean? To Macbeth, being the king means nothing if he cannot be safe as the king. Do you think Macbeth is…

Foul is foul and fair is fair The witches he unseam’d him from the nave to the chops Sergeants description of macbeth’s defeat of Macdonwald What, can the devil speak the truth? Banquo’s reaction when Macbeth has been named Thane…

brandished to shake or wave menacingly chastised to inflict verbal reprimand or punishment cherubim an order of angels usually short and rotund (cupid-like in appearance) dire dreadful, serious, warning of disaster furbish to make lustrous, looking new; polish harbinger something…

She should have died hereafter: There would have been a time and place for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrowCreeps in this petty pace from day to dayTo the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays…

Words to describe Macbeth (22) Ambitious, gullible, foolish, malleable, greedy, dependent, tyrannical, obsessive, brave, ruthless, impulsive, desperate, naive, unprepared, devoted, submissive, jealous, egocentric, arrogant, violent, contemplative, haunted Words to describe Lady Macbeth (20) Manipulative, cowardly, scheming, callous, hypocritical, determined, organised,…

How does the play start? the battle between Norway and Scotland (caused by the traitor – macdonwald) Alternate name for Macbeth The Scottish Play Who wrote Macbeth? William Shakespeare King Duncan King of Scotland; Father of Malcolm and Donalbain; murdered…

The Three Witches make the prediction of Macbeth becoming a King and Banquo’s descendants being kings. Duncan King of Scotland Malcom Duncan’s elder son Ross, Lennox, Angus Scottish Thanes. (3 total) Macbeth a general in the army of King Duncan;…