Macbeth Exam Questions And Answers.

Macbeth Exam Questions And Answers. Fair is foul and foul is fair - answerAct 1, Scene 1 - Witches - paradox - supernatural O valiant cousin, worthy gentleman - answerAct 1, Scene 2 - Duncan - bloodshed is revelled in - brutality a virtue So foul and fair a day I have not seen - answerAct 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 - answerAct 1, Scene 3- Macbeth - Witches = supernatural and transgressive of gender Thou shalt get Kings, though thou be none - answerAct 1, Scene 3 - Third Witch - prophecy - Banquo Why do you dress me in borrow'd robes? - answerAct 1, Scene 3 - Macbeth to Ross - disbelief of prohpecy becoming true - theatrical imagery The instruments of darkness tell us truths - answerAct 1, Scene 3 - Banquo - less trustworthy of witches - calm and sceptical Speak, I charge you! - answerAct 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 - answerAct 1, Scene 4 - Macbeth (aside) - Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here - answerAct 1, Scene 5 - Lady Macbeth - similar to witches - supernatural relations - transgression of gender - imperatives - urgency - desperation - recurrence of 'un': cannot undo actions Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell - answerAct 1, Scene 5 - Lady Macbeth - light/dark imagery - Hellish imagery - guilt - shroud for dead bodies - concealment - conspiracy - relates to Macbeth's 'Stars hide your fires...' - femme fatale Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't - answerAct 1, Scene 5 - Lady Macbeth - religious imagery - Adam and Eve - sin against God - regicide - deception - conspiracy -transgress