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Cards (48)
- What is Macbeth principally a play about?
- What does the play Macbeth warn against?
- In Act I, Scene VII, what does Macbeth say is his only motivation?
- In Act I, Scene VII, what is Macbeth deciding?
- What does Shakespeare use to directly state Macbeth's hamartia to the audience?
- What is implied as the only motivation for Macbeth's actions?
- What does Shakespeare suggest about Macbeth's fatal flaw?
- What does Macbeth suggest his ambition will do later in his soliloquy?
- What is Lady Macbeth suggesting when she says "When you durst do it, then you were a man"?
- What has Macbeth expressed doubts about before Lady Macbeth speaks the line "When you durst do it, then you were a man"?
- What is Lady Macbeth attacking in Macbeth?
- What would manliness have been equated with in the Jacobean era?
- As a woman, where does Lady Macbeth's power lie?
- What is Macbeth suggesting in Act V, Scene V when he says life is meaningless?
- When does Macbeth say "Life [...] is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"?
- What philosophical idea does Macbeth's quote "Life [...] is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" exemplify?
- What would Macbeth's rejection of God's plan be considered to a Jacobean audience?
- What is represented by Macbeth's moment of anagnorisis?
- What were the majority of people in Jacobean England?
- How would supernatural events have been viewed in Jacobean England?
- What are Macbeth and Lady Macbeth asking for in the quotes "Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires" and "Come, thick night and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of Hell [...] nor Heaven peep through"?
- When do Macbeth and Lady Macbeth speak the lines asking for their evil desires to be hidden from God?
- When Macbeth and Lady Macbeth speak asking for their evil desires to be hidden, what does it suggest when they are alone?
- What does Lady Macbeth echoing Macbeth's words show?
- What does the religious symbolism in Macbeth suggest?
- What are Macbeth and Lady Macbeth attempting to disrupt when using imperative verbs?
- According to the text, can the word "dark" be replaced with which word in quotations?
- Who says "The dead butcher and his fiend-like queen"?
- When does Malcolm describe Macbeth and Lady Macbeth as a butcher and fiend?
- What is Shakespeare suggesting by calling Macbeth a "butcher"?
- What does the omission of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's names suggest?
- To whom is Lady Macbeth being compared when described as a "fiend"?
- Who speaks the line "Fair is foul and foul is fair"?
- What does the line "Fair is foul and foul is fair" introduce?
- What does the use of paradoxical language establish in the line "Fair is foul and foul is fair"?
- What does the use of rhyming language convey about the witches' speech?
- Who speaks of "a dagger of the mind"?
- What does the vision of the dagger lead Macbeth to do?
- What does Shakespeare's use of metaphorical language show about Macbeth's vision?
- What does the vision of the dagger act as for Macbeth?