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“alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back one thousand times. And now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!”(V,1, 172) Speaker: HamletMeaning: Hamlet is…

When do the witches like to meet? (scene 1) During storms What does the Captain tell Duncan and his sons? Macdonwald, thane of Cawdor, turned treasonous and began to work with the Norweigans. But brave, loyal Macbeth defeated him. What…

Is this a dagger I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Macbeth soliloquy; Line 44-45He sees a hallucination of dagger. It is a way of showing mental turmoil over the act of murder. With Tarquin’s ravishing {strides,} towards…

‘Is this a dagger which I see before me/the handle towards my hand?’ The character hallucinates and see’s a dagger on his way to killing the king Macbeth ‘How is’t with me, when every noise appals me’ After he killed…

when, where and with whom do the witches plan to meet next? when- after the battlewhere- on a heath in the fieldwith- macbeth who does the captain say is “brave”? what did this brave man to do deserve the title?…

True/False: Macbeth has just defended King Duncan in a war true True/False: The title of Thane of Cawdor was given to Macbeth true True/False: Banquo notices Macbeth’s uneasy reaction to the witches’ prophecies true True/False: The witches’ first prediction for…

Where has the second witch been? Killing Swine What does the first witch say to mean she will stop him sleeping? I’ll drain him dry as hay: Sleep shall neither night nor day Hang upon his penthouse lid What does…

Fair is foul, and foul is fairHover through the fog and filthy air. All Witches My noble partnerYou greet with present grace and great predictionOf noble having and of royal hope Banquo And, for an earnest of a greater honor,He…

What is the central theme of Act 1 of the Tragedy of Macbeth? betrayal The Tragedy of Macbeth and other Elizabethan plays representeda radical shift in english drama because they were not about religous themes Based upon the information in…

As he considers Macbeth’s kingship, Banquo feels? Glimmers of Hope for his sons The “barren scepter” Macbeth refers to is a symbol implying that he? Will have no heirs to the throne Macbeth explains to the hired murderers that they…