GCSE English – Macbeth Answered With Quality Solutions
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Macbeth
Institution
Macbeth
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair." - Correct Answer ~ witches
- foreshadowing, setting the mood of the supernatural
"Let not light see my black and deep desires." - Correct Answer ~ Macbeth
- After Duncan announces that he will name his son Malcolm the next king, Macbeth hopes his disappoin...
GCSE English – Macbeth Answered With Quality
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"Fair is foul, and foul is fair." - Correct Answer ~ witches
- foreshadowing, setting the mood of the supernatural
"Let not light see my black and deep desires." - Correct Answer ~ 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." - Correct Answer ~ 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." - Correct Answer ~ 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.
"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!" - Correct Answer ~ 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." - Correct Answer ~ 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." - Correct Answer ~ 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) - Correct Answer ~ 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?" - Correct Answer ~ 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?" - Correct Answer ~ Macbeth
- Hallucinating that he sees a dagger before he kills Duncan.
"Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all,
As the weird women promised, and I fear
Thou play'dst most foully for't." - Correct Answer ~ Banquo (referring to Macbeth)
- meaning: well now you have everything that you were promised by the witches. I just fear that you did
something bad to get it.
"He's here in double trust. First, as I am his kinsman and his subject... then, as his host." - Correct Answer
~ Macbeth (referring to King Duncan)
- Listing reasons why he shouldn't kill Duncan. Duncan trusts Macbeth for two reasons: he is his
kinsman/subject, and his host.
"A little water clears us of this deed." - Correct Answer ~ Lady Macbeth
- After killing Duncan, she tells Macbeth that all they have to do is wash their hands and they will be
cleared of their sin.
, fair is foul and foul is fair - Correct Answer Act 1, Scene 1 - Witches - paradox - supernatural
O valiant cousin, worthy gentleman - Correct Answer Act 1, Scene 2 - Duncan - bloodshed is revelled in -
brutality a virtue
So foul and fair a day I have not seen - Correct Answer Act 1, Scene 3 - Macbeth - opening line - paradox
similar to witches - potential for supernaturalness
You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so - Correct Answer Act
1, Scene 3- Macbeth - Witches = supernatural and transgressive of gender
Thou shalt get Kings, though thou be none - Correct Answer Act 1, Scene 3 - Third Witch - prophecy -
Banquo
Why do you dress me in borrow'd robes? - Correct Answer Act 1, Scene 3 - Macbeth to Ross - disbelief
of prohpecy becoming true - theatrical imagery
The instruments of darkness tell us truths - Correct Answer Act 1, Scene 3 - Banquo - less trustworthy of
witches - calm and sceptical
Speak, I charge you! - Correct Answer Act 1, Scene 3 - Macbeth - imperative - witches fail to obey - lack
of control? - argues against supernatural powers
Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires - Correct Answer Act 1, Scene 4 -
Macbeth (aside) -
Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here - Correct Answer Act 1, Scene 5 - Lady
Macbeth - similar to witches - supernatural relations - transgression of gender - imperatives - urgency -
desperation - recurrence of 'un': cannot undo actions
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