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Macbeth Quotes Exam Questions and Correct Answers"Fair is foul, and foul is fair." - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..~ witches
- foreshadowing, setting the mood of the supernatural
"Let not light see my black and deep desires." - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..~ Macbeth
- After Duncan announces that he will name his son Malcolm the next king, Macbeth
hopes his disappointment doesn't show. He must find a way to prevent Malcolm from
becoming king.
"Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full of the milk of human kindness." - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..~
Lady Macbeth (referring to Macbeth)
- She fears that Macbeth is too kind to go through with killing Duncan.
"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't." - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..~ Lady
Macbeth (speaking to Macbeth)
- This is just before King Duncan's arrival at their castle. Macbeth's wife wants him to
act nice to Duncan's face, and hide his evil intentions.
what will you do? let's not consort with them. to show an unfelt sorrow is an office which
the false man does easy. (2.3.160-162) - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Malcolm to Donalbain
doesnt trust anyone anymore
our separated fortune shall keep us both the safer. where we are, there's daggers in
men's smiles. the near in blood, the nearer bloody. (2.3.163-166) -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..Donalbain to malcolm
scared for their lives, going to leave scotland and go to ireland(donalbain) and
england(malcolm)
'tis unnatural, even like the deed that's done. on Tuesday last a falcon, tow'ring in her
pride of place, was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..old man to
ross
nature is strange/weird
and duncan's horses...turned wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out, contending
'gainst obedience, as they would make war with mankind. (2.4.17-22) -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..ross to duncan
horses turn wild, nature is acting strange
,Malcolm and Donalbain, the King's two sons, are stol'n away and fled, which puts upon
them suspicion of the deed. (2.4. 36-38) - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Macduff to Ross and old man
ironic because they are innocent and are running away to be safe. pretty much
straightforward.
God's benison go with you and with those that would make good of bad and friends of
foes. (2.4.55-56) - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Old Man to Macduff and Ross
fair is foul, foul is fair
make friends w/enemies
Thou hast it now - King, Cawdor, Glamis, all as the Weird Women promised, and I fear
thou played'st most foully for 't. (3.1.1-3) - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Banquo to self
MACBETH IS THE KILLER.
But that myself should be the root and father of many kings. If there come truth from
them (As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine) Why, by the verities on thee made
good, May they not be my oracles as well, and set me up in hope? (3.1.5-6) -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..Banquo to self
things came true for Macbeth, will they come true for Banquo?
let your highness command upon me, to the which my duties are with a most
indissoluble tie forever knit. (3.1.17-20) - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Banquo to Macbeth
they have a bond because of the witches
We hear our bloody cousins are bestowed in England and in Ireland, not confessing
their cruel parricide (3.1.33-35) - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Macbeth to Banquo
keeps on bringing up Duncan's sons
They hailed him father to a line of kings upon my head they placed a fruitless crown and
put a barren scepter in my grip, thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand, no son of
mine succeeding. If't be so, for Banquo's issue have I filed my mind; for them the
gracious Duncan have I murdered. (3.1.65-71) - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Macbeth to self
doesnt trust Banquo, doesnt want Banquo's son to be king, super jelly of banquo, afraid
of banquo, and paranoia from guilt
know that it was he, in the times past, which held you so under fortune, which you
thought had been our innocent self. This i made good to you (3.1.83-86) -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..Macbeth to Murderers
he is manipulating the murderers to hate Banquo, saying that Banquo made them lesser
than they could be
do you find your patience so predominant in your nature that you can let this go? are
you so gospeled to pray for this good man and for his issue, whose heavy hand hath
, bowed you to the grave and beggared yours forever? (3.1.96-101) -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..Macbeth to Murderers
questioning their manliness, just like Lady Macbeth did to him
false face must hide what the false heart doth know (1.7.95) - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..MB to
LMB
*fair is foul, foul is fair*
I am one, my liege, whom the vile blows and buffets of the world hath so incensed that i
am reckless what i do to spite the world...And i another so weary with disasters, tugged
with fortune, that i would set my life on any chance, to mend it or be rid on 't. (3.1.121-
128) - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Murderers to Macbeth
Let us prove that we are men
"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!" - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..~ Lady Macbeth
- calling on the spirits to take away her feminine, weakness and fill her with evil because
she wants Duncan dead.
"But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail." - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..~ Lady Macbeth
- before they kill Duncan, she is reassuring Macbeth that everything will work out if he
fixes his courage firmly in place.
"False face must hide what false heart doth know." - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..~ Macbeth
- He has decided he will go along with Lady Macbeth's plan to kill Duncan. Telling
himself that he must put on a false pleasant face to hide his false, evil heart.
"Had he not resembled
My father as he slept, I had done't." (referring to Duncan) - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..~ Lady
Macbeth
- She would've killed Duncan herself but as he was sleeping he looked like her father.
"What hands are here? Ha: they pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune's ocean
wash this blood clean from my hand?" - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..~ Macbeth
- looking at his hands after he has just killed Duncan. He wonders if all of the water in
the ocean could wash the blood off his hands.
"Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?" - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..~ Macbeth
- Hallucinating that he sees a dagger before he kills Duncan.
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