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Macbeth Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Scene 1.1 | Somewhere in Scotland Three witches plan to meet with Macbeth. They decide to meet with him “upon the heath” when the battle is over. All: “Fair is foul, and foul is fair, / Hover through the fog and filthy air” (1.1.12-3). |
| Scene 1.2 | The King’s presence in Scotland The war is over due to Macbeth’s fighting & Norway’s surrender. The King kills the Thane of Cawdor for committing treason & gives Macbeth his title instead. Duncan: “What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won” (1.2.78). |
| Scene 1.3 Location | “Upon the heath", outside in the country |
| Scene 1.3 Quote | Macbeth: “My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, / Shakes so my single state of man / That function is smothered in surmise, / & nothing is but what is not” (1.3.152-5). |
| Scene 1.3 Main Events | Macbeth & Banquo met by witches,who say that Macbeth=Thane of Glamis/Cawdor & will=king;Banquo's sons will=kings.Ross & Angus come & tell Macbeth&Banquo abt Cawdor’s upcoming execution/Macbeth’s new title, causing him to think abt murder to fulfill this. |
| Scene 1.4 Location | In the King’s presence again, likely in the castle |
| Scene 1.4 Quote (1.4.55-60) | "The Prince of Cumberland!That is a step/On which I must fall down or else o’erleap,/For in my way it lies.Stars,hide your fires;/Let not light see my black & deep desires./The eye wink@the hand,yet let that be/Which the eye fears,when it is done,to see." |
| Scene 1.4 Main Events | The Thane of Cawdor is executed, and Duncan thanks Macbeth & Banquo. He then announces that his son (Malcolm) will succeed him as king & that he will visit Macbeth’s castle, so Macbeth decides that he must kill Duncan if he wants to be king. |
| Scene 1.5 Location | Inverness (Macbeth’s castle) |
| Scene 1.5 Quote | Lady Macbeth: “Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full / Of direst cruelty” (1.5.47-50). |
| Scene 1.5 Main Events | Lady Macbeth hears abt Macbeth’s encounter w/ the witches & the prophecy. She believes that Macbeth will not be able to kill Duncan b/c he is too “womanly” & decides to take action herself by asking the spirits for cruelty so she can please her husband. |
| Scene 1.6 | Inverness (Macbeth’s castle) Duncan and Banquo arrive at Inverness. Lady Macbeth greets them while keeping up the façade of “being a flower” while she is a “serpent underneath”. Duncan: “By your leave, hostess” (1.7.39). |
| Scene 1.7 | Inverness Macbeth reasons thru why he shouldn’t kill Duncan. Lady Macbeth tells him to stop being afraid & comes up with a plan to frame the king’s servants for the murder. Macbeth: “False face must hide what the false heart doth / know” (1.7.95-6). |
| Scene 2.1 Location & Main Events | Inverness Macbeth has a vision of a dagger leading him to kill Duncan. Lady Macbeth rings a bell to signal that everything is ready, & Macbeth grabs his dagger & prepares to murder Duncan. |
| Scene 2.1 Quote | Macbeth: “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” (2.1.75-7). |
| Scene 2.2 Location & Main Events | Inverness Duncan is murdered by Macbeth. He returns with the daggers on accident, but Lady Macbeth returns them and frames the guards for the murder. |
| Scene 2.2 Quote | Lady Macbeth: “These deeds must not be thought / After these ways; so, it will make us mad” (2.2.45-46). OR Macbeth: “Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore / Cawdor / Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more” (2.2.54-7). |
| Scene 2.3 Location & Main Events | Inverness Macduff & Lennox arrive to meet w/ the King. Discovering him to be dead, chaos ensues in the house & Duncan’s sons (Malcolm & Donalbain) flee for their lives. |
| Scene 2.3 Quote | Donalbain: “Our separated fortune / Shall keep us both the safer. Where we are, / There’s daggers in men’s smiles. The near in blood, / The nearer bloody” (2.3.163-6). |
| Scene 2.4 Location & Main Events | Inverness Macduff tells Ross & an old man abt how Malcolm/Donalbain are suspicious b/c they fled so quickly after the murder. He announces that Macbeth will be king. |
| Scene 2.4 Quote | Macduff: “Malcom & Donalbain, the King’s two sons, / Are stol’n away & fled, which puts upon them / Suspicion of the deed” (2.4.36-8). |
| Scene 3.1 Location & Main Events | The Castle Banquo is suspicious of Macbeth after Duncan & the guards die in his household. Macbeth is afraid because Banquo makes him appear inferior, so he plans to murder him. |
| Scene 3.1 Quote | Banquo: “Thou hast it now–king, Cawdor, Glamis, all / As the Weïrd Women promised, and I fear / Thou played’st most foully for’t” (3.1.1-3). |
| Scene 3.2 Location & Main Events | Macbeth’s castle? Lady Macbeth & Macbeth talk about how unhappy they are, & Macbeth tells her of his fears about Banquo. He tells her that something terrible will happen tonight, but doesn’t fill her in on the details. |
| Scene 3.2 Quote | Macbeth: “O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife! / Thou know’st that Banquo and his Fleance lives” (3.2.41-2). |
| Scene 3.3 | Macbeth’s castle? Three murderers (convinced by Macbeth) kill Banquo. They try to kill Fleance, but he escapes. Third Murderer: “There’s but one down. The son is fled” (3.3.29-30). |
| Scene 3.4 Location & Main Events | Macbeth’s castle? During the banquet, Banquo’s ghost appears. Lady Macbeth claims Macbeth is having a momentary fit &tells everyone to leave. Macbeth decides to try to meet the witches again. |
| Scene 3.4 Quote | Macbeth: “Thou canst not say that I did it. Never shake / Thy gory locks at me” (3.4.61-2). |
| Scene 3.6 | Somewhere private in Scotland They discuss Macbeth’s tyranny and how people are planning to work against him. Lennox: “For from broad words, and ‘cause he / failed / His presence at the tyrant’s feast, I hear / Macduff lives in disgrace” (3.6.23-6). |
| Scene 4.1 Location & Main Events | Somewhere in Scotland Macbeth meets with the witches, who warn him of Macduff and show him apparitions (including one of Banquo and his descendants). Macbeth decides to kill Macduff’s family out of fear. |
| Scene 4.1 Apparitions | An armed head: “Beware Macduff!” The bloody child: “No one born of woman can harm you.” A child crowned w/ a tree in hand: “Macbeth can never be beaten until the forest literally moves locations.” Banquo’s kids as Kings (8, including Banquo’s ghost) |
| Scene 4.1 Quote (from Macbeth) (4.1.169-175) | 2 crown my thoughts w/acts,b it tho&/done:/The castle of Macduff I will surprise,/Seize upon Fife,give to th’edge o’th’sword/His wife,babes,& all unfortunate souls/That trace him in his line.No boasting like a fool;/This deed I’ll do b4 this purpose cool |
| Scene 4.2 Location & Events | Fife Ross tries to justify why Macduff went to England, and a messenger arrives to warn the Macduffs to flee. Before they do, Macbeth’s murderers arrive and kill her and her son. |
| Scene 4.2 Quote | Lady Macduff: “Whither should I fly? / I have done no harm. But I remember now / I am in this earthly world, where to do harm / Is often laudable, to do good sometime / Accounted dangerous folly” (4.2.81-5). |
| Scene 4.3 Location & Events | Somewhere in England Macduff tries 2 convince Malcolm 2 help him fight Macbeth. Malcolm tries to discover if it's a trap. Ross comes to tell the bad news abt Macduff’s family.Malcolm convinces Macduff 2 join England’s men in defeating Macbeth as revenge. |
| Scene 4.3 Quote (4.3.277-283) | Malcolm: “Come, go we to the King. Our power is ready; / Our lack is nothing but our leave. Macbeth / Is ripe for shaking, & the powers above / Put on their instruments. Receive what cheer you / may. / The night is long that never finds the day” |
| Scene 5.1 | Dunsinane (the castle), Lady Macbeth’s room? Lady Macbeth is sleepwalking and talking from the guilt of their actions. Doctor: “More needs she the divine than the physician” (5.1.78). |
| Scene 5.2 | On the way to Birnam Wood Scottish rebels are planning to join the English in fighting Macbeth. Caithness: “Well, march we on / To give obedience where ‘tis truly owed” (5.2.30-1). |
| Scene 5.3 Location & Events | Dunsinane Macbeth thinks he is going to be fine (Macduff can’t hurt him), but he is going crazy b/c of it. Lady Macbeth can’t be helped by a doctor, which frustrates him. |
| Scene 5.3 Quote | Macbeth: “Bring me no more reports. Let them fly all. / Till Birnam Wood remove to Dunsinane / I cannot taint with fear” (5.3.1-3). |
| Scene 5.4 Location & Events | Birnam Wood Scottish rebels meet up w/ English army & prepare to fight Macbeth. They cut off tree boughs to make it difficult for Macbeth to see how many of them there are. |
| Scene 5.4 Quote | Malcolm: “Let every soldier hew him down a bough / And bear’t before him. Thereby shall we shadow / The numbers of our host and make discovery / Err in report of us” (5.4.6-9). |
| Scene 5.5 Location & Events | Dunsinane Macbeth learns of his wife’s death. He isn’t worried about his own life until he hears that Birnam Wood is “moving” towards the castle, but he decides to fight because he believes no one can hurt him. |
| Scene 5.5 Quote (Macbeth) (5.5.50-7). | “‘Fear not till Birnam Wood / Do come to Dunsinane,’–arm, arm, and out!– / If this which he avouches does appear, / There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here. / I ‘gin to be aware of the sun / And wish th’ estate o’ th’ world were now / undone–” |
| Scene 5.6 | Dunsinane The army approaches the castle, and the troops prepare to fight Macbeth. Macduff: “Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath, / Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death” (5.6.10-1). |
| Scene 5.7 Location/Events | Near Dunsinane, on the battlefield The battle begins: Macbeth kills young Siward & flees as the castle is surrendered to Malcolm. Macduff goes to look for Macbeth. |
| Scene 5.7 Quote | Macduff: “Either thou, Macbeth, / Or else my sword with an unbattered edge / I sheathe again undeeded” (5.7.23-5). |
| Scene 5.8 | Dunsinane & the battlefield Macduff fights Macbeth, kills him, and cuts off his head. Malcom becomes king and honors his loyal supporters. Siward: “Here comes newer / comfort” (5.8.62-3). |
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