3432490702 | animals in macbeth | after duncan's death, the horses eat each other | 0 | |
3432493221 | birds in macbeth | an owl eats a raven after duncan's death showing how the natural order of things are turned around | 1 | |
3432573918 | blood | lady macbeth trying to wash the "blood" off her hands | 2 | |
3432577669 | children | macbeth = no kids; corrupted macduff = kids; normal | 3 | |
3432581547 | clothing | macbeth wearing a dead's man clothes/ill fitting robes | 4 | |
3432587321 | light/darkness | night during day time; audience = in the dark | 5 | |
3432589016 | sleep | sleep = death's foil | 6 | |
3432598130 | guilt | macbeth going mad after mudering duncan, lady macbeth sleep walking and trying to get the blood off her hands | 7 | |
3432611503 | king james and king edwards | macbeth written for king james; king edward is related to king james | 8 | |
3432615391 | what 3 things does drink cause | nose painting, urination, sleep | 9 | |
3432618692 | how is lady macduff a foil to lady macbeth | 1) children: lady macduff has children where as lady macbeth does not 2) femininity: lady macbeth asked to be unsexed but lady macduff relies on her femine nature | 10 | |
3432659391 | why do actor believe the play is cursed? | believed shakespeare wrote actual curse rather than writing a made up one | 11 | |
3432674059 | who said this: "life's but a walking shadow, a poor player/ that struts and frets his hour upon the stage/ and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/ signifying nothing" what literary device? | macbeth ; metaphor | 12 | |
3432729188 | who said this: "will all great neptune's ocean wash this blood/clean from my hand? no. this my hand will rather/the multitudinous seas incarnadine,/making the green one red" what literary device? | lady macbeth ; hyperbole | 13 | |
3432739485 | who said this: "look like th' innocent flower but be serpent under't" what literary device? | lady macbeth ; simile | 14 | |
3432762481 | who said this: "all the perfumes of arabia will not sweeten this little hand" what literary device? | lady macbeth ; hyperbole | 15 | |
3432813903 | who is thomas middleton | wrote scenes with hecate | 16 | |
3432819610 | what is the archetypical for witches | "double bubble toil and trouble" | 17 | |
3432828319 | who says "fair is foul and foul is fair" | the witches | 18 | |
3432855902 | who is king when the play starts | duncan | 19 | |
3432857635 | whom does macbeth defeat in battle | the armies of norway and ireland | 20 | |
3432861882 | what do the witches prophesy | macbeth will be king and banquo's children will be kings | 21 | |
3432867620 | what tile, predicted by the witches, does macbeth receive | thane of crawdor | 22 | |
3432870235 | who is made heir to duncan's throne | duncan's son, malcom | 23 | |
3432907020 | what does lady macbeth resolve to do | whatever necessary to help macbeth become king | 24 | |
3432908400 | what does lady macbeth think macbeth lacks | the manliness to follow through on his ambitions | 25 | |
3432914173 | what do lady macbeth's words "unsex me here" mean | she wants to set aside feminine sentiments that could hinder he bloody ambitions | 26 | |
3432918922 | what is lady macbeth's plan for murdering duncan? | macbeth will stab him in his sleep and put the bloody evidence on the servants | 27 | |
3432923778 | what does macbeth realize about the consequences of duncan's murder? | other than satisfying his own ambitions, it will make everything worse | 28 | |
3432942123 | why is banquo up late | he had nightmares about the witches | 29 | |
3432945549 | what eerie vision does macbeth have before he kills duncan | a bloody floating dagger pointing at him | 30 | |
3432949724 | what does macbeth hear a voice saying | that he murdered sleep | 31 | |
3432953329 | why can't lady macbeth kill duncan | he looks like her father | 32 | |
3432956910 | how does lady macbeth feel about macbeth carrying out the ordeal | she is ashamed by how scared he acts through it all | 33 | |
3433001407 | who kills the servant who look guilty of the murder | macbeth | 34 | |
3433004080 | how does lady macbeth publicly react to the news of the murder | she says it is horrible and pretends to faint | 35 | |
3433013054 | why do malcom and donalbain run away from the courts | they fear that they are next to be murdered | 36 | |
3433017982 | why is macbeth named king instead of duncan's son and heir, malcom | because marcom's flight makes him look guilty | 37 | |
3433030294 | what does banquo wonder about the witches prophecy | if his descendants will really become kings | 38 | |
3433034124 | how does macbeth feel about banquo | he fears that banquo and his sons will cut his reign short | 39 | |
3433038407 | what does macbeth hire three mean to do | kill banquo and his son | 40 | |
3433042266 | does lady macbeth think this murder of banquo and son = necessary | no but she will help him | 41 | |
3433044404 | what happens to banquo and fleance | banquo is murdered and fleance escapes into the dark | 42 | |
3433057733 | how does macbeth feel about fleance escaping | leaves him vulnerable | 43 | |
3433060252 | what does macbeth see when he enters the banquet | bloody ghost of banquo | 44 | |
3433062668 | how does lady macbeth explain macbeth odd behavior | she says not to worry bc he's had strange visions since childhood | 45 | |
3433066533 | what does hecate plan for macbeth | to show him visions that will falsely make him feel secured | 46 | |
3433068446 | who is hectae | goddess of witchcraft | 47 | |
3433070568 | why does macduff go to england | to ask king edward for aid in fighting macbeth | 48 | |
3433084705 | how many apparitions do the witches show macbeth | 4 | 49 | |
3433087130 | what does macbeth do when he hears macduff has fled to england | he orders the murder of macduff's family | 50 | |
3433089810 | what do macduff's wife and son argue about | whether macduff betrayed them or nah | 51 | |
3433092580 | what does marcom say to test macduff's loyalty to scotland | he says he's more ambitious, greedy, and bloodthirsty than macbeth | 52 | |
3433098518 | what does macduff plan when he hears what happened to his family | revenge on macbeth | 53 | |
3433118490 | what does lady macbeth obsess over as she goes mad | blood she can't wash off her hands | 54 | |
3433122494 | what armies join forces against macbeth | scotish and british | 55 | |
3433125972 | what does it mean when birnam wood comes 2 dunisdane | the advancing army rides 2 dunisdane holding branches from briam wood | 56 | |
3433131471 | in what way is macduff not born of a woman | he was born by c section (i was too!!) | 57 | |
3433134034 | who kills macbeth and puts his head on a spike | macduff | 58 | |
3433135980 | we think lady macbeth dies by ... ? | suicide | 59 | |
3433263718 | what 3 visions do macbeth feel safe | 1. head saying "beware macbeth" 2. bloody child: "laugh at anyone who was not born of a woman 3. child w/ tree: won't be defeated until birnam wood comes 2 dunisdane 4. line of kings that all represent banquo's sons | 60 | |
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