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Macbeth Act 1
Who said what in Act 1
Question | Answer |
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Who said this? "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" | The three witches |
Who is being described? "he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps" | Macbeth |
Who said this? "So foul and fair a day I have not seen." | Macbeth |
Who says this and to whom? "Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more." | Macbeth to the witches |
What is Macbeth talking about? "[the] horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs". | Murdering King Duncan. |
What is Macbeth saying? "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir." | If it's his fate to be king it will happen anyway. |
Who says this? "Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires:" | Macbeth - when he realises his only chance of becoming king is to kill Duncan |
What is Macbeth talking about? "that is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies." | Malcolm being made heir to the throne. |
Who said this? "Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be What thou art promised" | Lady Macbeth |
What is Lady Macbeth saying she wants to do? "Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear" | Manipulate and persuade Macbeth to commit the murder. |
What is Lady Macbeth asking evil spirits to do? "unsex me here" | Take away her feminine qualities (gentleness, kindness, weakness) |
What is Macbeth worried about? "we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor" | That if he kills the King, someone will then kill him (a bit like karma) |
What is Macbeth saying? "I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition," | He has no reason to kill the king except for his strong and overpowering ambition. |
Who says this? " Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire?" | Lady Macbeth to Macbeth - she is asking if he is too scared to kill the king. |