| There won’t be an essay section on this Test.Be sure to know who said each quote that appears within this quizlet, although there may be one or two that don’t appear in it. | … |
| Macbeth was written by _____ and historians believe that the play was written for King _____ of Scotland (later called _____) | William Shakespeare, James VI, King James I of Britain |
| Every Shakespearen play has 5 acts, they consist of the:-Act 1: Exposition (_____)-Act 2: Rising Action (_____)-Act 3: Climax (_____)-Act 4: Falling Action (_____)-Act 5: Catastrophe/Denouement (_____) | IntroductionComplicationCrisis/Most amount of tensionAfter the climax, but before the endFinal part and resolution of the plot. |
| Macbeth is considered to be of the _____ genre (also called a _____). Shakespeare also wrote _____ and _____. | tragedy, drama, comedies, histories |
| In a tragedy, we have a _____ hero.The Shakespearean definition of this hero is very similar to _____’s (Greek Philosopher) definition:-They are of _____-They have a _____, also known as the Greek term HARMATIA-They have _____ which is _____ and is many times the downfall of a hero-Their actions result in an increase of _____ and _____.-The _____ must feel pity and fear (also known as _____) for this character. | tragicAristotleNoble BirthTragic FlawHubris, excessive prideSelf Awareness, Self KnowledgeAudience, Catharsis |
| List Shakespeare’s Law of Natural OrderExample: If a nobleman attempted to break out of his realm and become king, this is where the tragedy would occur. Nature would step in to set things in their rightful place. However, chaos ensues as nature restores the balance of the natural order. | GodAngelsKingsNoblemenClergyArmyMerchantsPlebeians/Peasants |
| Was there a real Macbeth?-The real Macbeth took the throne of Scotland in 1040, after killing his cousin King _____ in a battle near Elgin in the Moray district of Scotland-The slain King’s eldest son, _____, ended Macbeth’s reign in 1057 by killing him in battle and later assuming the throne as _____.-The real Lady Macbeth’s first name was _____, although this is not mentioned in the play, and he was her second husband.-“_____” by Raphael Holinshed are publicans that are considered to be the source of this information.-The real Macbeth was part of a powerful tribe in Scotland called the _____. During this time, one felt more loyalty to _____ than to _____. | Duncan I, Malcolm, Malcolm III, GruochThe Chronicles of England, Scotland, and IrelandThanes, the tribe, the king |
| William Shakespeare was born in _____, England in what is believed to be April 23, 1564Son of a _____ who held political office but who later suffered financial lossesShakespeare probably attended the local grammar school, where he would have learned Latin and studied classical literature.He eventually married Anne Hathaway at age 18 and had three children: _____ and the twins _____ and _____. | Stratford-upon-Avon, prominent merchant, Suzanna, Hammet, Judith |
| It is believed that Macbeth was performed between _____ and _____. (Important)In this era, there was a huge demand for new entertainment and the drama would have been produced immediately following the completion of the play. | 1605, 1606 |
| Shakespeare knew that a play featuring _____ (which were a forbidden topic at the time) would attract theatregoers and increase his audience and revenue. He would also have been aware that King _____ (who this play was written for) was extremely interested in witches and sorcery. This king also wrote a book called _____ describing the demonic rites of witches. | witchesKing James I, Daemonologie (Demonology) |
| The tragic hero is better than the average person, and goes from good fortune to bad. this change comes from a mistake (known as a _____) that the hero makes. The change has nothing to do with the god’s or divine will, but depends solely on the free will of the hero and his/her actions.(This is important) | Harmatia |
| _____ was the King of Scotland at the start of the play. | Duncan |
| _____ was Duncan’s eldest son._____ was Duncan’s youngest son. | MalcolmDonalbain |
| _____ was a general in the army of King Duncan, originally Thane of Glamis, then Thane of Cawdor and later King of Scotland. | Macbeth |
| _____ was Macbeth’s wife, and later Queen of Scotland | Lady Macbeth |
| _____: Macbeth’s servant and attendant | Seyton |
| _____: Scottish Thanes | Ross, Lennox, Angus, Menteith, Caithness |
| _____: Macbeth’s friend and general in the army of King Duncan | Banquo |
| _____: Banquo’s son | Fleance |
| _____: The Thane of Fife | Macduff |
| _____: Make the prediction of Macbeth becoming a King and Banquo’s descendants being kings | Three Witches/The Weird Sisters |
| -The real _____ took the throne of Scotland in 1040, after killing his cousin King Duncan I in a battle near Elgin in the Moray district of Scotland-Duncan’s eldest son, _____, ended his reign in 1057 by killing him in battle and later assuming the throne as _____.-The real Lady Macbeth’s first name was _____, although this is not mentioned in the play, and Macbeth was her second husband. (This all is important) | MacbethMalcolm, Malcolm IIIGruoch |
| Shakespeare borrowed the story of Macbeth from several tales in _____ a popular history of the British Isles known to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. (Important) | Holinshed’s Chronicles |
| The real _____ portrayed in historical sources is significantly different from the person created by Shakespeare. He was related to the current King James so Shakespeare couldn’t make him an evil character. (In real life, he wasn’t a good person) | Banquo |
| -In the backstage world of theatre, some believe that the play, Macbeth, is cursed, and will not mention its title aloud. (Don’t say Macbeth backstage)-Many actors have been injured while playing Macbeth -Just to be safe, people refer to Macbeth only as _____. | “The Scottish Play” |
| _____ are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. (These consists of multiple words. Basically a topic and how it applies to the play) (Important, maybe. I listed it in my notes as such for some reason but I don’t know why anymore.) | Themes |
| Macbeth Themes:_____: The main theme of Macbeth—the destruction wrought when ambition goes unchecked by moral constraints—finds its most powerful expression in the play’s two main characters_____: The problem, the play suggests, is that once one decides to use violence to further one’s quest for power, it is difficult to stop. | Ultimate power corrupts totallyUnchecked ambition |
| Kingship vs. tyrannyIn the play, Duncan is always referred to as a “_____,” while Macbeth soon becomes known as the “_____”.Most important, the king must be loyal to Scotland above his own interests. (Duncan was, Macbeth wasn’t) (Macbeth stepped out of Shakespeare’s law of natural order) | KingTyrant |
| _____ is the embodiment of tyrannyHe, in direct contrast to _____, brings only chaos to Scotland—symbolized in the bad weather and bizarre supernatural events seen throughout the play | MacbethDuncan |
| _____ are recurring structures, contrasts, and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes. | Motifs |
| Motifs in Macbeth:_____: When he is about to kill Duncan, Macbeth sees a dagger floating in the air. Covered with blood and pointed toward the king’s chamber. Visions and hallucinations recur throughout the play and serve as reminders of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s are both responsible for the growing body count. Later, Macbeth sees _____ sitting in a chair at a feast, pricking his conscience by mutely reminding him that he murdered his former friend_____:-Macbeth is a famously violent play-Most of the killings take place offstage, but throughout the play the characters provide the audience with gory descriptions of the carnage. | Hallucinations, Banquo’s ghostViolence |
| Nature-“Thunder and lightning.” This is the description of the scene before Act I, Scene I, line 1. The thunder and lightning represent disturbances in nature -The witches are also surrounded by more undesired parts of weather: “Hover through the fog and filthy air” (line 11).-The weather might personify the witches, meaning that the witches themselves are disturbances, though not limited to nature. The bad weather also might mean that the witches are bad or foul (“filthy air”) creatures.(Basically, the three witches are personified by _____) | Bad Weather |
| Nature out of balance-In Act II, Scene I, it is a dark night. _____ says “The moon is down” (line 2), and _____ says, “[Heaven’s] candles are all out [there are no stars in the sky]” (line 5). -Darkness evokes feelings of evilness, of a disturbance in nature on this accursed night. It creates a perfect scene for the baneful murders. | Fleance, Banquo |
| -_____ sets Macbeth’s plot in motion—namely, the witches’ say that Macbeth will become first thane of Cawdor and then king. -The weird sisters make a number of other prophecies: they tell us that Banquo’s heirs will be kings, that Macbeth should beware Macduff, that Macbeth is safe till Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane, and that no man born of woman can harm Macbeth. (In short: The witches set the plot in motion) | Prophecy |
| Symbolism-Symbols are objects, characters, figures, and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts.Colors-Color is very important in Macbeth! _____ and _____ are the colors to watch for! | Red, Black |
| -The _____ chorus on Act I, Scene I, line 10: “Fair is foul, and foul is fair.” This is a _____. It is also a prophecy, where one thing seems like another or about how things will change through the story.-The first thing that _____ says when he enters scene three (line 38) is, “So foul and fair a day I have not seen.” | three witches, paradoxMacbeth |
| -_____ is everywhere in Macbeth, beginning with the opening battle between the Scots and the Norwegian invaders. -It comes to symbolize Lady Macbeth and Macbeth’s guilt They begin to feel that their crimes have stained them in a way that cannot be washed clean. “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?” is what _____ cries after he has killed Duncan, even as his wife scolds him and says that a little water will clean it.-“Out, damned spot; out, I say . . . who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?” Said by _____ | BloodMacbethLady Macbeth |
| -Lady Macbeth is honored nobility and is well respected like Macbeth. King Duncan calls her “our honored hostess.”-She is loving to her husband but at the same time very ambitious, she wants Macbeth to be king. -She immediately concludes that “the fastest way” for Macbeth to become king is by _____. | murdering King Duncan |
| -Later, Lady Macbeth’s conscience becomes too great for her and her mental and physical condition deteriorates. -A gentlewoman observes her sleepwalking and consults a doctor. -The doctor and the lady observe Lady Macbeth sleepwalking, madly trying to _____. | cleanse her hands of the blood of Duncan and Macduff’s family. |
| What does Lady Macbeth see is a man? “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 compunctions visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose, not keep peace between / Th’ effect and it!” (lines 43 – 48). She (Lady Macbeth) wishes she were a man-“Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,” says Lady Macbeth (Act I, scene v, lines 41 – 42). | This is probably important, but there’s not exactly much to put on this side. Just know that Lady Macbeth said these quotes I suppose. |
| To help convince Macbeth not to call the murder off, Lady Macbeth questions his manhood. She says, “When you durst do it, then you were a man; / And to be more than what you were, you would / Be so much more the man” (lines 49 – 51). The sad part is that Lady Macbeth truly does believe that Macbeth wouldn’t be a man if he didn’t agree to the killing. | … |
| -Probably the most direct example of manhood being a theme in Macbeth is _____ at the end of Act IV. While _____ implores him to “dispute it like a man” (line 220), he says that he must also “feel it as a man” (line 221), which changes the image of a man given above by Lady Macbeth.-While Lady Macbeth portrays men as being cruel and cold-hearted, he shows that a man is cruel and cold when he needs to be, but feels just as intensely as he acts. | Macduff, Malcolm |
| Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth-“Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: like th’ innocent flower, But be the serpent under ‘t.” — lines 65 – 67. (Lady Macbeth)-In scene vi, Lady Macbeth puts on her mask. She says (lines 14 – 20) that the service and hospitality are nothing “Against those honors deep and broad wherewith / Your Majesty loads our house . . .” (Lady Macbeth) She easily keeps any suspicion off of her in her ruse. -Banquo sees through Macbeth’s masks. In Act III, scene i, Banquo puts up his own masks. He almost knows that Macbeth is the murderer, but he hides his suspicions while he idly talks to Macbeth. The masks aren’t always limited to uses of evil. | Probably something important in here. No clue. |
| Much of this play is filled with the struggle between _____ -The dark throughout all the acts is _____-The light in the first two acts is _____, but the struggle went in favor of darkness. This struggle occurs in every act of the play. -_____ is the hero of the play. He is the light that will soon come to a final climactic battle with the dark (Macbeth). -There is also religious meaning to this: God against the devil, Macbeth being the devil (remember how he couldn’t say “Amen” in Act II?). This theme has been used in many contemporary stories; it’s an epic battle of good vs. evil. | Light and DarkMacbethDuncanMacduff |
| This quote was stated by _____:”What’s done is done.” (Act III, Scene II) | Macbeth |
| This quote was stated by _____:”There’s daggers in men’s smiles.” (Act II, Scene III) | Macbeth |
| This quote was stated by _____:”Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness.” (Act I, Scene V) | Lady Macbeth |
| This quote was stated by _____:”Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?” (Act II, Scene I) | Macbeth |
| This quote was stated by _____:”When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain?” | The Three Witches |
| This quote was stated by _____:”When the battle’s lost and won” (Act I, Scene I) | The Three Witches |
| This quote was stated by _____:”I bear a charmed life”. (Act V, Scene VIII) | Macbeth |
| This quote was stated by _____:”Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: like th’ innocent flower, But be the serpent under ‘t.” | Lady Macbeth |
| This quote was stated by: _____:”When you durst do it, then you were a man; / And to be more than what you were, you would / Be so much more the man” | Lady Macbeth |
| This quote was stated by _____:”By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes!” | One of the three witches (Witch 2 in the version we read) |
| Act I Question:What is the point of the first scene literally and in reference to the whole play? | To foreshadow the events that will happen in the story and to establish the three witches as characters. Basically: Sets the mood of the play (the mood is eerie/ominous) |
| Act I Question:What does Duncan call Macbeth when he hears that Macbeth has defeated Macdonwald? | “Valiant cousin, worthy gentleman” |
| Act I Question:Who is sentenced to death? | The former Thane of Cawdor before Macbeth |
| Act I Question:What do the witches predict in Act 1 Scene 3 for Macbeth and for Banquo? | They predict that Macbeth will become (he is already the Thane of Glamis) the Thane of Cawdor, and then King. They also predict that Banquo’s descendants will be king. |
| Act I Question:What news does Ross bring Macbeth? | Ross told Macbeth that the king had praised Macbeth for his actions and awarded him the title of Thane of Cawdor. |
| Act I Question:Banquo, like Macbeth, is surprised that the witches have predicted Macbeth’s new title. He is, however, leery. What does he say about the motives of “instruments of darkness” | The instruments of darkness tell them truths and give them honest trifles/rewards only to betray them more severely later on. (Tell some truths only to make the eventual downfall worse) |
| Act I Question:Malcolm describes Cawdor’s last moments before execution. What is Duncan’s reply? | You can never tell from a face what a person has in their hearts (people might seem nice but harbor evil intentions) |
| Act I Question:_____ says “Stars, hide your fires. Let not light see my black and deep desires.” What are his desires. | MacbethMacbeth’s desire is to somehow become king, even though it means betraying Duncan and others. |
| Act I Question:After Lady Macbeth reads the letter, what does she tell us is her opinion of Macbeth and how does she plan to help him? | Lady Macbeth states that Macbeth is too kind to find the nearest way to become king. He has the ambition to become king but lacks the wickedness to do what must be done. Lady Macbeth decides to try and influence Macbeth in various ways to eventually convince him to deal with all that stands in the way of him becoming king. |
| Act I Question:What is Lady Macbeth’s prayer to the “spirits” after she learns Duncan is coming. | That the spirits fill Lady Macbeth with the cruelty and dedication to do all the evil acts that must be done to ensure that Macbeth shall become king. |
| Act I Question:What advice does Lady Macbeth give Macbeth when he arrives home? | To have an outwardly innocent and trustworthy appearance so that people won’t be aware of his malicious intentions to become king. |
| Act I Question:What are Macbeth’s arguments to himself against killing Duncan? | Macbeth is both family and a servant to the king, killing Duncan would only encourage more regicide/assassinations in the future, and Duncan has not abused his powers as king and has generally been a just and moral king. |
| Act I Question:What arguments does Lady Macbeth use to convince Macbeth to commit murder | Lady Macbeth states that Macbeth will be a coward if he does not act upon his ambitions. Macbeth had promised to do so earlier and would not be a man if he refused to do so now. She also states that she would go to even more extreme lengths than this to make Macbeth king. |
| Act I Question:What is Lady Macbeth’s plan? | Lady Macbeth’s plan is to steal two daggers from Duncan’s guards and then use said daggers to kill Duncan and then leave the daggers there to shift any blame to the daggers’ original owners. |
| Act 2 Question:What is Macbeth’s lie to Banquo about the witches’ predictions. | That Macbeth doesn’t dwell on/think about the witches’ predictions |
| Act 2 Question:What is the signal that Lady Macbeth uses to let him know that she has taken care of the guards (grooms)? | Lady Macbeth rings a bell. |
| Act 2 Question:What excuse does Lady Macbeth use for not killing Duncan herself. | Duncan resembled Lady Macbeth’s father as he slept. |
| Act 2 Question:After Macbeth kills Duncan, he goes to Lady Macbeth and is concerned about not being able to say “Amen”. What is her advice to him? | That Macbeth and she would go mad if they dwelled upon the action they had done, so don’t think about it. |
| Act 2 Question:Then, Macbeth is worried about hearing a voice saying “Macbeth does murder sleep”. What does Lady Macbeth tell him to do? | Lady Macbeth tells him to try and relax himself and wash the blood off of his body. “Wash this filthy witness from your hands.” |
| Act 2 Question:Why won’t Macbeth take the daggers back to the scene of the crime? | Macbeth dares not look at the crime he has committed/what he has done. |
| Act 2 Question:Who was knocking? | Malcolm and Donalbain |
| Act 2 Question:What three things does drinking provide? | Nose-picking (brightness of nose/cheeks), Sleep, and Urine (It gives and takes away lechery as well) |
| Act 2 Question:How does Lennox describe the night, and what is Macbeth’s response. | Lennox describes the night as unruly and Macbeth agreed that it was a rough night. (Lennox: The night has been unruly. Where we lay, pour chimneys were blown down, and, as they say, laments heard in the air, strange screams of death. And prophesying with accents terrible of dire combustion and confused events new hatched to the woeful time: the obscure bird clamored the livelong night. Some say, the earth was feverous and did shake.) |
| Act 2 Question:What did Macduff discover? | Macduff discovered the king’s dead body. |
| Act 2 Question:_____ says to Lady Macbeth: “Oh gentle lady, ’tis not for you to hear what I speak. The repetition, in a woman’s ear, would murder as it fell”. What is ironic about this? | MacduffIt’s ironic since he was saying this to Lady Macbeth, who had plotted and convinced Macbeth to follow through with killing Duncan. |
| Act 2 Question:What excuse or explanation does Macbeth give for killing the guards (grooms)? What is his real reason? | His excuse is that he killed the two guards out of rage after seeing them with bloodied weapons by Duncan’s corpse. The real reason is so the guards could not deny their crimes? |
| Act 2 Question:Why do Malcom and Donalbain leave? | Malcom and Donalbain (the king’s two sons) leave to England and Ireland respectively out of fear of being assassinated by whoever it was that was aspiring to become king. |
| Act 2 Question:Why did Ross not believe Malcolm and Donalbain were responsible for Duncan’s murder? | That if they had committed the crime, then they would have been attempting to become king themselves rather than fleeing for Ireland. |
| Act 3 Question:Why does Macbeth want Banquo and Fleance dead? | Macbeth feared that Banquo would also have aspirations to become king (so that his descendants would be kings) and plot to kill Macbeth due to the witches’ predictions as Macbeth killed Duncan. Fleance is also the son of Banquo so he must be disposed as well. |
| Act 3 Question:What is Macbeth’s plan for killing Banquo and Fleance? Does it work? | Macbeth will direct the murderers to a place where Banquo and his son will end up being, and Macbeth and his wife will keep up a friendly façade and end up directing them to the place where the murderers are, and then, obviously, the murderers will murder Banquo and Fleance. In the end, Banquo is killed but Fleance escapes. |
| Act 3 Question:_____ says “The worm that’s fled nature that in time will venom breed, no teeth for the present”. What does that mean? | MacbethBanquo is dead but Fleance escaped. Fleance will not be a threat at first, but eventually will become a threat to Macbeth out of revenge. |
| Act 3 Question:Who (what) did Macbeeth see at the banquet table? | Macbeth sees the Ghost of Banquo sitting on his seat at the banquet table. |
| Act 3 Question:How does Lady Macbeth cover for Macbeth at the banquet table? What excuses does she give for his wild talk. | Lady Macbeth states that Macbeth has always been prone to brief fits of madness and that it will subside quickly if nobody indulges him. |
| Act 3 Question:Who else was missing from the banquet table (besides Banquo)? | Macduff |
| Act 3 Question_____ says “I am in blood, stepped in so far that should I wade no more. Returning were as tedious as go o’er”. What does he mean? | MacbethThat Macbeth can’t ever obtain forgiveness/peace with what he has done but does not want to commit any more murders or wicked acts. |
| Act 3 Question:What does Hecate want the witches to do? | Hecate wants the witches go to Macbeth once more and tell them the destiny that awaits him? (Need more information on this one) |
| Act 3 Question:What does Lennox think about Macbeth, Fleance, and Duncan’s sons? | Lennox thinks that Macbeth might be a tyrant and has doubts that Duncan’s sons were the ones that killed Duncan. |
| Act 4 Question_____ says “By the pricking of my thumb, something wicked this way comes.” Who comes? | Witch 2Macbeth is the one who comes |
| Act 4 QuestionWhat is Macbeth’s attitude towards the witches this time? | He’s angry towards the witches but demands answers from them. (Basically: Demanding assistance) |
| Act 4 QuestionWhat four things did the witches show Macbeth? What does each show/say? What is Macbeth’s reaction? | Macbeth is shown 3 apparitions and an image of Banquo and his descendants as kings. The first apparition tells Macbeth to beware Macduff, the second apparition tells Macbeth that no person born of women will harm Macbeth, the third apparition tells Macbeth that Macbeth will not die until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill rise against him, and the image shows Macbeth each of Banquo’s descendants that shall become king. Macbeth’s reaction to the first two apparitions is to slay Macduff, and he doesn’t worry about the third apparition as that’s unlikely to happen. His response to the final image is panic while demanding more answers. (The first two apparitions are symbols of Macduff, and the third apparition is a symbol of Fleance and or Malcolm) |
| Act 4 Question_____ says (about the witches), “Infected be the air whereon they ride, and damned all those that trust them!” What is he, in effect, saying about himself. | MacbethThat Macbeth himself is corrupted by them already and that he laments this. (He’s damned) |
| Act 4 QuestionWhere is Macduff? | Macduff has fled Scotland and went to England. |
| Act 4 QuestionWhy does Macbeth have Macduff’s family and servants killed? | Because Macbeth is angry at Macduff and wants to get revenge somehow. |
| Act 4 QuestionWhy does Lady Macduff’s son say liars and swearers are fools. | Since there are enough liars and swearers to beat up the honest men who would punish them. |
| Act 4 Question_____ says, “Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, yet grace must still look so.” What does that mean? | MalcolmThe devil was an angel, and then the devil fell. Macbeth is being compared to the devil and this means that Macbeth will eventually fall. |
| Act 4 Question_____ says “Oh, Scotland, Scotland!” Why? | MacduffThat he fears for his country’s future since it is currently occupied by a tyrant. |
| Act 4 QuestionWhat news does Ross bring to Macduff? | That Macduff’s family was murdered |
| Act 5 QuestionWhat do the doctor and gentlewoman see Lady Macbeth doing? What do they do about it? | The Doctor and Gentlewoman see Lady Macbeth sleep walking and trying to wash blood of her hands while speaking of some of the murderous acts she has done. The Doctor states that she needs an exorcism and that he lacks a physical cure for this. |
| Act 5 QuestionWhat does Macbeth want the doctor to do for his wife? | Any means possible to save his wife. |
| Act 5 QuestionWhat trick does Malcolm use to hide the number of men in his army? | Malcolm has the men uproot or cut down shrubs, trees, and plants and hide behind them as they march to siege Macbeth. |
| Act 5 Question_____ says “And none serve with him but constrained things whose hearts are absent, too.” What does that mean? | MalcolmThe soldiers that serve Macbeth only do so out of duty and not because of their own choice. |
| Act 5 QuestionWhat is Macbeth’s reaction to Lady Macbeth’s death? | He is very calm and collected and states that it would happen anyways. |
| Act 5 QuestionWhat is Macbeth’s reaction to the news that Birnam Wood is moving? | Macbeth states that he’ll die while fighting instead of cowering or fleeing |
| Act 5 QuestionWho first fights Macbeth? What happens? | The Young Steward and Macbeth kills the Young Steward. Afterwards, Macbeth states that since the Young Steward was born of women, he could not beat Macbeth. |
| Act 5 Question_____ says to Macduff: “But get thee back, my soul is too much charged with blood of thine already.” To what is he referring? | MacbethMacbeth states that he has already killed Macduff’s family and spilt enough of their blood and has no desire to kill Macduff. |
| Act 5 QuestionWhen does Macbeth know he’s in trouble? | When Macduff says that he was ripped out of his mother’s womb (meaning that he wasn’t born of women) |
| Act 5 QuestionHow does Macbeth die? | Macduff beheaded Macbeth |
| Act 5 QuestionWho will be King of Scotland? | Malcolm |
| Who does Duncan name the Prince of Cumberlain?(Review Question) | Malcolm |
| Lady Macbeth fears that her husband is _____.(Review Question) | Too Kind/Lacks the ambition |
| Who is the Thane of Fife?(Review Question) | Macduff |
| What character provides comic relief in the play after Duncan dies?(Review Question) | Porter |
| The witches predicted that _____ would be the father of kings. (Review Question) | Banquo |
| This character believes that her husband is a traitor(Review Question) | Lady Macduff |
| What was the source for Shakespeare’s Macbeth?(Review Question) | Holinshed’s ChroniclesorThe Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland by Holinshed |
| “Sirrah, your father is dead. And what will you do now? And how will you live?Who says this?(Review Question) | Lady Macduff |
| “Out! Out! Brief candle, life is but a brief shadow. A player strutting across the stage who plays no more.”(This isn’t exact but the quote’s similar to this)Who says this?(Review Question) | Macbeth |
| “The Thane of Fife had a wife, where is she now?”Who says this?(Review Question) | Lady Macbeth |
| How does Shakespeare’s law of natural order apply to this play?(Review Question) | Macbeth is a noble and he tries to become king. This breaks the law. This causes chaos to ensure and nature restores it. (This is a basic summary. I advise against copying this verbatim) |
| Name the four apparitions of the Three Witches and what they symbolize.(Review Question) | 1. Armed Head: Macduff2. Bloody Child: Macduff being ripped from his mother’s womb3. Crowned Child with a tree in his hand: Malcolm4. The 8 kings that are walking: Banquo and his descendants |
| _____: The painful or destructive action that a tragic hero experiences. | Pathos |
| _____: When the character realizes that his/her actions have created their own bad future. | Recognition |
| _____: A change in action to its opposite. | Peripety |
| Some dramatists argue that Lady Macbeth is a witch? Do you agree or disagree, and why?”Who was Macbeth written for and why was it written like it is for them?How does Shakespeare’s Law of Natural Order apply to this play?(Possible Short Answer Questions) | You have to write your own answer for these. |
Hilty Honors English Macbeth Test
September 2, 2019