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What’s in Characters My Line? a Word? Objects In Macbeth Ladies in Macbeth Lines from the play that have stood the test of time and are unforgettable. 10 Points 10 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points
What is a thane?
A Scottish nobleman
What does Malcolm order cut down so his army can attack Macbeth clandestinely?
Birnam Wood
What is the “damned spot”?
What Lady Macbeth unsuccessfully tries to wash off –imaginary blood on her hands.
Who are “the sleepy grooms”?
The attendants (guards) of the king who are drugged to sleep by Lady Macbeth.
What is a divine?
A minister -who the doctor says Lady Macbeth needs “more than the physician. ”
King of Scotland at the opening of the play.
Duncan
He is given the title, “Thane of Cawdor”.
Macbeth
Banquo’s son whom Macbeth tries to murder.
Fleance
He lies to Macduff about his character.
Malcolm
He is a “man not born of a woman”.
Macduff
Blood, night, sleeplessness, and clothing are these in Macbeth.
Motifs in Macbeth
What Macbeth means by asking if Banquo is safe.
He means “Is Banquo dead? ”
“What is normally good is now bad, and what is normally bad is now good. ”
This is the meaning of ‘What’s fair is foul and what’s foul is fair”
Who said – and on what occasion - “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. ”?
Macbeth; on the occasion of hearing his wife has died.
Macbeth had a hard time saying this because he felt guilty about Duncan’s murder.
“Amen”
What exactly is “the knell that summons (Duncan) to heaven or to hell”?
A bell
“They must lie there: go carry them, and smear the sleepy grooms with blood. ”Lady Macbeth What are they?
The daggers used to kill Duncan
A falcon killed by an owl, and the king’s horses broken out of their stalls fighting and eating each other!
Signs in nature observed by Ross of the assassination of Duncan.
What Macbeth says he has murdered.
sleep
What Macbeth (to save face) says he has after he sees Banquo’s ghost.
a strange infirmity (sickness which makes him hallucinate)
What Macbeth wants to put on at one moment, but off at another.
his armor
Who met Macbeth “in the day of success” - causing him to “have learned by the perfect’st report they have more in them than mortal knowledge. ”
the three witches
Who complained that her husband left her and her children alone and who “loves us not”?
Lady Macduff
Who was “unknown to woman”?
Malcolm
“She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of that. Heaven knows what she has known. ” Who said it?
Lady Macbeth’s attendant (nurse, servant) on observing Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking.
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. ” Who said it?
Lady Macbeth
In Act IV, the witches say this three times in unison.
“Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble. ”
Lady Macbeth’s most famous line from the play, signifying her unreleaved guilt.
“Out, damned spot. ”
What Donalbain says to Malcolm can apply to any false friends.
“There’s daggers in men’s smiles. ”
When Lady Macbeth encourages her husband to not think constantly about Malcolm’s murder, in Act III, Sc. 2 she says: A. “What’s done is done. ” B. “All’s well that ends well. ” C. “Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck. ”
A. “What’s done is done. ”
When Macbeth seems hesitant to murder Duncan, he hallucinates and says: A. “I go, and it is done: the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven, or to hell. ” B. “That which has made them drunk hath made me bold. ” C. “Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? ”
C. “Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? ”
Make your wager
What does Macbeth want to have put on, put off, and put on? By whom?
His armor. By Seyton.
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