English honors - macbeth questions (fake)

What prophecy do the witches give Macbeth at the beginning of the play?

C. He will become Thane of Cawdor and eventually king.

Which character most strongly encourages Macbeth to murder King Duncan?

Lady Macbeth

What is the significance of Banquo's ghost?

represents Macbeth's guilt and growing paranoia.

Why does Macbeth hesitate before killing Duncan?

He believes Duncan is a good king and his guest HE FEELS GUILT

What title does Macbeth receive shortly after meeting the witches?

Thane of Cawdor

What does Lady Macbeth ask the spirits to do?

"Unsex" (make her manly) her and remove her compassion

Who discovers Duncan's body?

Macduff

Why do Malcolm and Donalbain flee Scotland after Duncan's death?

They fear they will be blamed or killed. (knives in mens smiles- donalbain)

Why does Macbeth arrange for Banquo to be murdered?

Macbeth fears Banquo's descendants will become kings.

What apparition tells Macbeth that "none of woman born" can harm him?

A bloody child

How is Macbeth's confidence ultimately proven false?

Macduff was born by Caesarean section, not born naturally from woman

What happens to Lady Macbeth near the end of the play?

She dies after suffering from guilt and madness.

Who becomes king at the end of Macbeth?

malcom

Which theme is most central to Macbeth?

Ambition and the corrupting desire for power

What does blood often symbolize throughout the play?

Guilt and violence

It is evident that banquo’s moral character is intact even after thinking about the witches prophecies when he says

“so i lose none in seeking tu augment it, but still keep my bosom franchised and allegiance clear. it shall be counseled.”

macbeth’s “dagger” soliloquy serves all but which of the following purposes (act 2)

to illustrate his guilty conscience after murdering duncan

macbeth’s emotional status in the following lines can best be describbed as

what hands are here? ha; they pluck out mine eyes. will all great neptunes ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? no, this is my hand rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.

responsible and guilty

while they hear knocking at the castle gate, lady macbeth tells her husband to do these two things

put on his nightgown and wash his hands

lennox

a scottish nobleman

“thou hast it now; king, cawdor, glamis, all. as the weird sisters promised, and i fear thou play’dst most foully for’t”

banquo

“do not muse at me, my most worthy friends. i have a strange infirmity, which is nothing to those that know me. come love and health to all. then ill sit down.”

macbeth

“are you a man?”

lady macbeth

“be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck.”

mcabeth

get you gone, and at the pit of acheron. meet me i’ the morning. thither he will come to know his destiny

hecat

“tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word macduff’s fled to england

lennox

wisdom! to leave his wife, his babes, his mansion and his titles, in a place from whence himself does fly? he loves us not

lady macduff

was my father a traitor, mother?

macduff’s son

it is myself i mean, in whom i know all the particulars of vice so grafted that, when they shall be opened, black macbeth will seem so pure as snow, and the poor state esteem him as a lamb, being compared with my confineless charms

malcolm

i am not treacherous

macduff

we know macbeth is seeing banquo’s ghost because he says

“the times have been/that, when the brains were out, the man would die/and there an end but no they rise again/ with twenty mortal murders on their crowns…”

what does mcabeth means when he says to lady macbeth: “when i think you can behold such sights, and keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, when mine is blanched in fear”

he is scared and lady macbeth does not appear to be

when lord and lennox have a conversation, the lord reveals that

macbeth is a tyrant and macduff has gone to england for help