MACBETH EXAM

Duncan’s youngest son who flees to Ireland

Donalbain

which character says this?“[life] is a tale/ told by an idiot. full of sound and fury/ signifying nothing”

Macbeth

Son of Banquo who narrowly escapes being murdered

Fleance

The king whose murder ignites a series of bloody and unfortunate events

King Duncan

Woman who before her murder accuses her husband of being a traitor

Lady Macduff

Duncan’s named heir

Malcom

He will never be king, but will be the father of king

Banquo

The weird sisters who hovers through the “fog and filthy air”

The Three Witches

Which character says this? “out damned spot! out, I say! - One, two. Why, then, “tis time to do’t Hell is murky!”

Lady Macbeth

The man who is NOT born of a woman

Macduff

The goddess of witchcraft, who helps the three witches work their mischief on Macbeth

Hecate

A trio of ghost summoned by the three witches in order to warn Macbeth of his impending doom

Three Apparitions

What was the First Apparition?

an armed head

What was the Second Apparition?

a bloody child

What was the Third Apparition?

a crowned child

Siward’s son who joins him on the battlefield at dunsinane. He encounters Macbeth during the fight and despite his attempts to bring his enemy down, Macbeth ultimately kills him

Young Siward

At the beginning of the play what two nations are at war?

Scotland vs. Norway

before macbeth makes his first appearance in the play what does the audience learn about him

brave, brutal, good fighter, loyal, respected warrior

In act 1 scene 3 what astonishing news does ross bring macbeth

He is appointed to the thane of cawdor

In Act 1, Scene 5, Lady Macbeth learns about her husband’s prophecy but says “‘Yet I do fear thy nature; it is too full of the milk of human kindness”’ What is she worried about?

Macbeth is too kind to kill/hurt Duncan.

What was Lady Macbeth’s plan to murder Duncan?

Get everyone drunk, Kill Duncan, Blame on guards

In Act 1, Scene 7 which reasons for sparing Duncan’s life does Macbeth consider?

fear of losing his good reputation, likes duncan, his own morality and kindness.

Why does Lady Macbeth refuse to kill Duncan

He resembles her father

In act 2 scene 1 Macbeth remarks ‘“Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible…Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible As this which now I draw.”’ What is the "fatal vision” he is referring to?

the hallucination of the dagger he will use to kill duncan

How does Macbeth change after killing Duncan?

Turns into a paranoid, crazy, tyrant.

The morning after the death of duncan, Lennox comments about unusual natural events that occurred the night before. What do these events foreshadow

the “unnatural” event of Macbeth’s ruling (as king); disruption of natural events

In Act 3, Scene 4, Macbeth is hosting a banquet when a assasion returns to report the results of the ambush agianst Banquo and Fleance. In response Macbeth says,”The worm that’s fled Hath nature that in time will venom breed; No teeth for th' present.”’ What does this mean?

Fleance will become a threat in the future due to him escaping death.

Why is the murder of Macduff’s child aged son so significant?

It shows how Macbeth does not care who dies and he lost his morals.

In Act 5, scene 1 what is the “damned spot” to which Lady Macbeth refers?

The blood of the victims she has been involved with.

By Act five, what do Angus and the other Scottish nobles notice about Macbeth?

He has became a violent tyrant and he is not fit to rule.

What does Lady Macbeth indicate in this passage? "“Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valor of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round”’

For Macbeth to leave all his doubts about murdering Duncan and becoming king; to come back so they can discuss about the prophecy.

What does Macbeth mean in the following passage? ‘“Upon my head they places a fruitless crown, And put a barren scepter in my gripe”’

He is paranoid someone will take the throne and believes killing duncan for the crown was not worth it if there are continuous obstacles.

What does the First Apparition predict?

Beware of Macduff

What does the Second Apparition predict?

No one born from a woman can harm Macbeth

What does the Third Apparition predict?

Macbeth cannot die unless Birnam Forest marches.

Who becomes King at the end of the play?.

Malcom

Who was “from his mother’s womb, untimely ripped?’’’ (C-SECTION)

Macduff

At the beginning of the play, what does Lady Macbeth think of Macbeth’s ambition

he has ambition but lacks ruthlessness to do anything about it.

Who develops the plan of ‘‘‘Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under''t”’

Lady Macbeth

Identify the speaker “‘My hands are of your color, but I shame/To wear a heart so white… A little water clears us of this deed’’’

Lady Macbeth

Why does Macbeth want to kill Fleance (Banquo’s son)?

he poses a threat to Macbeth since he could become king

Who speaks the following like? ‘‘‘The prince of Cumberland! that is a step/ ON which I must fall down, or else o’erleap’’’

Macbeth

At the end of the play, how does Lady Macbeth indicate her decline?

Sleepwalking showing her intense guilt and suicide

At the end of the play, how does the army fighting Macbeth conceal itself?

hide using the tree branches of Birnam Woods

At the end of the play, how does Lady Macbeth mostly likely die?

Suicide, KYS

How does Macbeth die?

Beheaded by Macduff

Which character says ‘‘‘Oh, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!”’

Macbeth

Which character says ‘‘‘‘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."‘

Lady Macbeth

Which character says "‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair”’

The Three Witches

Which character says “‘There’s no art

To find the mind’s construction in the face.”’

Duncan

Which character says “‘Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,

As the weird women promised, and I fear

Thou played’st most foully for ’t.”’

Banquo

Which character says “‘Tyrant. show thy face! If thou beest slain, and with no stroke of mine,

My wife and children’s ghosts will haunt me still.”’

Macduff

Which character says “‘This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,

Was once thought honest. You have loved him well.

He hath not touched you yet. I am young, but

something

You may deserve of him through me, and wisdom

To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb

T' appease an angry god.”’

Malcom

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