Macbeth

• Duncan is at Macbeth's castle in 'double trust'
• What is a motif for guilt?

  Sleep
• What does MB say after killing Duncan, showing his guilt is already manifesting?

  'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?'
• What quotation implies LMB is trivialising the murder to hide her own feelings?

  'A little water clears us of this deed'
• What does MB say to BQ's ghost?

  'Thou canst not say that I did it; never shake thy gory locks at me'
• First line of play?

  When shall we three meet again in thunder lighting or in rain
• When did witches plan to meet MB?

  When the hurlyburly's done, when the battle's lost and won
• Fair is foul and foul is fair; hover through fog and filthy air
• Duncan's first line?

  What bloody man is that? He can report As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt The newest state'
• What is Malcolm's first line?

  This is the sergeant who, like a good and hardy soldier fought gainst my captivity
• How was battle going before MB stepped in?

  Two spent swimmers that do cling together and choke their art
• Who were the two rebels at the start?

  'Merciless Macdonald' and 'Thane of Cawdor'
• What was going to happen to Thane of Cawdor?

  Go pronounce his present death, and with his former title greet Macbeth
• Macbeth's first line?

  So foul and fair a day i have not seen
• How are witches described?

  'So withered, and so wild in their attire'

  'Look not like the inhabitants of the Earth and yet are on it'

  You should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so'
• How does BQ warn MB?

  'Oftentimes, to win us to our harms, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles , to betray's in deepest consequence'
• How does Macbeth describe the meeting with witches?

  'Supernatural soliciting'
• Cannot be ill, cannot be good
• What is Macbeth's first lie to BQ?

  my dull brain was wrought with things forgotten
• What does Duncan say about traitors to Malcolm?

  He was a gentleman on whom i built an absolute trust
• How does Duncan show his gratitude to Macbeth?

  More is thy due than more than all can pay
• How does MB show guilt before even killing king?

  Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires
• What MB quotes are similar about hiding regicide from himself?

  'The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done to see'

  'That my keen knife see not the wound it makes'
• What does LMB tell MB about hiding his thoughts on his face?

  'Your face, my Thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters'
• How does MB dismiss LMB about discussing regicide?

  'We will speak further'
• What does MB wish would happen?

  'If it were done, when tis done, then twere well it were done quickly'
• What does MB say he doesn't have?

  'I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition'
• How does LMB change MB's mind?

  'Art thou afeard'

  'live a coward in thine own esteem'

  'I would while it was smiling in my face...dashed the brains out'
• What does MB say in witch language?

  'I conjure you'

  'Eternal curse shall fall on you'
• What do the witches say before MB arrives in act 4?

  'By the prickling of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes'
• What is the first apparition?

  'an armed head'

  'Macbeth Macbeth Macbeth, beware Macduff; Beware the Thane of Fife'
• What is the second apparition?

  'A bloody child'

  'Be bloody, bold and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth'
• What is the third apparition?

  'a child crowned, with a tree in his hand'

  'Macbeth shall never vanquished be, until great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him'