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1EXTRACT ONE
Study the extract below and answer the questions which follow.
Lady Macbeth: Give him tending,
He brings great news.
Attendant off
The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements . . . Come, you spirits 5
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me, from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood,
Stop th’ access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature 10
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
Th’ effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature’s mischief! Come, thick night, 15
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor Heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry ‘Hold, hold!’
Enter Macbeth
Great Glamis! Worthy Cawdor! 20
Greater than both, by the all hail hereafter!
Thy letters have transported me beyond
This ignorant present, and I feel now
The future in the instant.
Macbeth: My dearest love, 25
Duncan comes here tonight.
Lady Macbeth: And when goes hence?
Macbeth: To-morrow, as he proposes.
Lady Macbeth: O never
Shall sun that morrow see! 30
Your face, my Thane, is a book, where men
May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
Look like the time, bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue; look like th’ innocent flower,
But be the serpent under’t. He that’s coming 35
Must be provided for; and you shall put
This night’s great business into my dispatch,
Which shall to all our nights and days to come
Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.
(act 1, sc, 5)
D. RAMSAMOOCH
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QUESTIONS
1. Place the above extract in context. (2)
2. Comment on the image of the raven (l. 3) (3)
3. Paraphrase lines 5 – 8 (Come, you spirits. . . Of direst cruelty!) (2)
4. Explain why Lady Macbeth “Greater than both” (l. 21) (4)
5. Discuss the importance of the image of darkness as revealed in ll. 15 – 18 (Come,
thick night . . . of the dark). (3)
6. Refer to ll. 32 – 35. (To beguile the time . . . the serpent under’t.) Explain the
dominant theme in these lines. (3)
7. What “great business” is Lady Macbeth referring to in line 36? (2)
8. Give three reasons why Macbeth refuses to perform this “great business”. (3)
9. Briefly explain how Lady Macbeth plans to carry out this “great business”. (3)
EXTRACT TWO
Study the extract and answer the questions which follow.
LENNOX: My former speeches have but hit your thoughts,
Which can interpret farther. Only I say
Things have been strangely borne. The gracious Duncan
Was pitied of Macbeth; marry, he was dead.
And the right valiant Banquo walked too late – 5
Whom you may say (if’t please you) Fleance killed,
For Fleance fled: men must not walk too late.
Who cannot want the thought, how monstrous
It was for Malcolm and for Donaldbain
To kill their gracious father? Damned fact! 10
How did it grieve Macbeth! Did he not straight,
In pious rage, the two delinquents tear,
That were the slaves of drink and thralls of sleep?
Was not that nobly done? Ay, and wisely too;
For ‘twould have angered any heart alive 15
To hear the men deny’t. So that, I say,
He has borne all things well. And I do think
That, had he Duncan’s sons under his key
(As, an’t please heaven, he shall not) they should find
What ‘twere to kill a father; so shoud Fleance. 20
But, peace! For from broad words, and cause he failed
His presence at the tyrant’s feast, I hear,
Macduff lives in disgrace. Sir, can you tell
Where he bestows himself?
D. RAMSAMOOCH
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