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| What is the point of the first scene literally and in reference to the whole play? | show 🗑
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| What does Duncan call Macbeth when he hears Macbeth has defeated Macdonald? | show 🗑
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| show | The thane of Cawdor is sentenced to death.
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| What do the witches predict in Liii for Macbeth? For Banquo? | show 🗑
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| show | Ross tells Macbeth that Macbeth now holds the title of the Thane of Cawdor.
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| show | He says they often tell of good things which may happen without telling the bad consequences.
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| Malcolm describes Cawdor's last moments before execution. What is Duncan's reply? | show 🗑
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| Macbeth says "stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires." What are Macbeth's desires? | show 🗑
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| show | In short, Lady Macbeth thinks Macbeth could be a good king, but he lacks the hard-heartedness which would allow him to get to the position. She'll talk him into it.
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| What is Lady Macbeth's "prayer" to the spirits after she learns Duncan is coming? | show 🗑
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| show | She tells him he must learn to look innocent even when his heart is full of evil. He has to learn to hide his true feelings.
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| show | Macbeth is Duncan's kinsman and his subject. Duncan is a good king and virtuous man; he has done no particular evil. Duncan is a popular king, and his death would bring sorrow and unrest upon Scotland.
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| show | She tells him not to be a coward, not to say later that he "could have been" when he could "be" king. She tells him to be a man and go get what he wants. She says if she had made the promise to do this, that she would have killed her own baby to carry for
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| What is Lady Macbeth's plan? | show 🗑
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| show | He says he doesn't even think about them.
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| What is the signal Lady Macbeth is to give Macbeth to let him know that she has taken care of the guards (grooms)? | show 🗑
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| show | He looked like her father sleeping there.
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| After Macbeth kills Duncan, he goes to Lady Macbeth and is concerned about not being able to say "Amen." What is her advice to him? | show 🗑
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| Then, Macbeth is worried about hearing a voice saying, "Macbeth does murder sleep." What does Lady Macbeth then tell him to do? | show 🗑
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| show | He can't bear to look at Duncan again.
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| show | Macduff and Lennox were knocking at the gate.
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| What three things does drinking provoke? | show 🗑
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| show | Lennox goes through a great description of the terrible night, saying it predicted terrible, confusing times ahead. Macbeth brushes it off by saying it was a "rough night."
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| show | Macduff discovered Duncan's body
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| Macduff says, "oh gentle lady, 'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak. The repetition, in a woman's ear,would murder as it fell." what is ironic about this? | show 🗑
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| show | He did it out of pain and rage, but he actually wanted to be rid of any possible witnesses to the murder.
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| Why do Malcolm and Donalbain leave? | show 🗑
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| show | He says it is against nature -- both their personal natures and nature as the ruling force in the universe.
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| show | He knows they suspect him of foul play, and he is furious that he has done all of the work (so-to-speak) of becoming king, and Banquo's descendants will benefit from it.
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| show | He gets to convicted murderers to wait along the road to ambush them. The murderers kill Banquo, but Fleance escapes.
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| Macbeth says, "The worm that's fled Hath nature that in time will venom breed, no teeth for the present." What does that mean? | show 🗑
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| Who (what) did Macbeth see at the banquet table? | show 🗑
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| How does Lady Macbeth cover for Macbeth at the banquet? What excuses does she give for his wild talk? | show 🗑
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| Who else was missing from the banquet table (besides Banquo)? | show 🗑
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| show | There is no going back now. Macbeth is committed to this course of action, whatever terrible things he may yet have to do.
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| What does Hecate want the witches to do? | show 🗑
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| show | He thinks Macbeth is the "good guy," Fleance killed Banquo, and Duncan's sons killed the king.
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| show | Macbeth
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| What is Macbeth's attitude towards the witches this time? | show 🗑
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| What four things did the witches show Macbeth? What does each show/say? What is Macbeth's reaction? | show 🗑
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| show | He is in England helping Malcolm.
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| show | Macduff is not loyal to Macbeth, and Macbeth is angry.
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| Why does Lady Macduff's son say liars and swearers are fools? | show 🗑
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| Malcolm says, "Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, yet grace must still look so." What does that mean? | show 🗑
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| show | Malcolm has just told him what a horrid king he (Malcolm) would be if he were on the throne instead of Macbeth. Given a choice,then, between Malcolm and Macbeth, he gravely fears for his country's future.
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| What news does Ross bring to Macduff? | show 🗑
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| show | She is sleepwalking and talking about the murders. The doctor decides his best move is to not mention that he heard anything, and he tells the woman to keep an eye on Lady Macbeth.
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| show | He wants the doctor to ease her suffering, to give her something to make her oblivious to her weighty troubles.
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| What trick does Malcolm use to hide the number of men in his army? | show 🗑
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| Malcolm says, "And none serve with him but constrained things whose hearts are absent, too." what does that mean? | show 🗑
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| What is Macbeth's reaction to Lady Macbeth's death? | show 🗑
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| show | "Arm, arm, and out!" He's going to fight to the bitter end and take down the whole universe with him, if necessary.
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| show | Young Siward fights Macbeth and is slain.
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| show | Macbeth doesn't want to fight Macduff; he has already killed Macduff's family.
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| When does Macbeth know he's in trouble? | show 🗑
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| show | Macduff fights him and beheads him.
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| show | Malcolm will be king.
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