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| show | On a heath in Scotland
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| show | Appearance vs Reality ("Fair is foul and foul is fair")
Good vs Evil
Winning and Losing
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| Who are the witches planning to meet? | show 🗑
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| show | King Duncan
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| Name King Duncan's two sons | show 🗑
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| Where is the military camp where King Duncan awaits news of the battles? | show 🗑
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| Who are the two people who bring King Duncan news of the battles? | show 🗑
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| Name the leader of the Irish mercenaries during the skirmishes. | show 🗑
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| Who assisted King Sweno in his attempt to invade Scotland? | show 🗑
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| show | He orders the Thane of Cawdor's execution.
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| show | Macbeth killed him on the battlefield.
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| show | King Duncan orders that Macbeth receive the title as a reward for his bravery and loyalty on the battlefield.
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| show | Thane of Glamis
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| show | He inherited this title from his father upon his death
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| show | They predict that he will be Thane of Cawdor and king of Scotland
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| What do the witches predict for Banquo? | show 🗑
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| What does King Duncan announce concerning Malcolm in A1S4? | show 🗑
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| show | Lady Macbeth
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| How is Macbeth related to King Duncan? | show 🗑
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| Where is King Duncan's castle at the start of the play? | show 🗑
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| show | Inverness
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| What name do the witches go by? | show 🗑
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| How many witches are there? | show 🗑
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| show | Duncan, king of Scotland
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| Where does Donalbain flee after his father's murder? | show 🗑
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| What does Macbeth see in his hallucinations before the murder of King Duncan? | show 🗑
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| Who discovers King Duncan's body? | show 🗑
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| Who arrives in A2S3 to wake King Duncan? | show 🗑
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| Name Banquo's son. | show 🗑
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| How do the witches greet Macbeth? | show 🗑
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| show | He will leave it to fate/chance
"If chance will have me king then chance may crown me without my stir."
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| show | She reads the news in a letter that was sent with a messenger from Macbeth. As A1S5 opens, she reads this letter aloud.
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| show | She believes that he does not possess the ruthlessness to fulfil the prophecy. She says he is too good and kind to take by force what he really desires.
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| When Lady Macbeth is informed that King Duncan is approaching the castle and will be spending the night, what does she decide to do? | show 🗑
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| show | Duncan is his cousin.
Macbeth is a subject of King Duncan and should be loyal.
Duncan is a guest of the Macbeths, and they should protect him from harm and show him hospitality.
Duncan has rewarded Macbeth and is good.
He is a well-loved king
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| show | Macbeth's own ambition to become king
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| show | King Sweno of Norway
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| show | False
Macbeth has internal conflict. He knows that the murder of King Duncan will have dire consequences.
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| show | Ominous, sinister, mysterious, troubled
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| show | One side wins, the other side loses, but even the winning side will have lost something (especially in a war against Norwegian Vikings, who were brutal warriors). King Duncan also loses two subjects: Macdonwald and the Thane of Cawdor.
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| What is King Duncan's fatal flaw? | show 🗑
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| What is the gift that Banquo hands Macbeth in A2S1? | show 🗑
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| show | He says that he does not think of them.
This is deceitful and ironic - Macbeth's willingness to murder King Duncan hinges on what was prophesied by the witches
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| How does Lady Macbeth signal to Macbeth that it is time to proceed with the murder? | show 🗑
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| show | The two daggers of Duncan's grooms
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| Who does Macbeth meet on his way to murder King Duncan? | show 🗑
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| Why can't Lady Macbeth murder King Duncan? | show 🗑
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| show | She returns the daggers to the grooms, and smears their faces with blood so that they appear guilty of the crime.
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| show | Guilt
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| show | She faints
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| What reason does Macbeth give for killing the grooms? | show 🗑
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| show | She is shocked that he went beyond her plan.
She faints on purpose to remove suspicions from Macbeth as he had revealed too much in his passionate speech
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| What do Duncan's sons do after their father has been murdered? | show 🗑
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| Where does Malcolm decide to go after his father's death? | show 🗑
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| What will people believe now that Malcolm and Donalbain have decided to flee? | show 🗑
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| What is Macduff's title? | show 🗑
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| What is the significance of Scone? | show 🗑
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| show | It is the ancient burial site of Scottish kings
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| show | He will not attend the coronation at Scone, but will return to his home in Fife.
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| show | She compares the messenger to a raven. This is an apt comparison as ravens were superstitiously believed to foretell death. The messenger unknowingly brings the news of King Duncan's death as Lady Macbeth sees this visit as an opportunity to murder him.
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| show | No. She emasculates him by calling him a coward, and not manly enough to take what he wants in A1S7. She does not support him in A2S2 when he is overwrought after the murder of King Duncan and speaks down to him as if he is a child.
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| show | Macbeth is guilt-ridden and overwhelmed. He is unfocussed and does not think clearly, bringing the daggers with him. He feels remorse about King Duncan's murder and cannot think of the murder plan, but remains devastated by what he had done.
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| show | At King Duncan's castle at Forres
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| Why does King Duncan decide to visit Inverness? | show 🗑
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| show | He has the ambition to be king himself. The first prophecy of the witches, that he would be Thane of Cawdor, came true and he believed he could make the king prophecy come true. Lady Macbeth manipulated him into killing King Duncan.
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| Who, except for King Duncan, does Macbeth see as an obstacle in his way towards becoming king in A1S4? | show 🗑
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| Who rides ahead from Forres to Inverness at the end of A1S4? | show 🗑
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| show | The porter, gatekeeper of Inverness
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| What does Lady Macbeth suggest Macbeth do in A2S2 in order to maintain his innocence? | show 🗑
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| Who is the goddess of the witches? | show 🗑
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| show | Macduff
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| Whose ghost does Macbeth see sitting in his seat during the banquet? | show 🗑
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| How was Banquo killed? | show 🗑
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| What is the significance of the appearance of Banquo's ghost at the banquet? | show 🗑
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| show | Seyton
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| Who is the general of the English forces sent to aid Malcolm? | show 🗑
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| show | Ten thousand English soldiers
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| Why does the witches' prediction about Banquo lead to his death? | show 🗑
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| show | To King Edward's palace in England. This is where Malcolm is.
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| What is Macduff's title? | show 🗑
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| Who is Macduff's wife? | show 🗑
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| In A3S1 when Banquo says, "I fear thou play'dst most foully for't", what does he mean? | show 🗑
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| show | He wants to know where Banquo will be so that he can inform the men he hires to kill Banquo where to place themselves.
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| show | He needs to remain unsuspicious in the murder of Banquo, and must be seen mourning his friend.
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| What is patricide? | show 🗑
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| show | Malcolm, Donalbain, and Fleance
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| show | The killing of a king, regent, or monarch
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| show | He lies to them about Banquo's involvement in their misfortune, giving them their own reasons for wanting him dead. He also questions if they are manly enough to commit this deed.
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| show | The castle at Forres
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| show | Good vs Evil/Light vs Darkness - Macbeth says that the more one commits evil, the easier it becomes. His moral decline is clear.
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| show | A third murderer claiming to be sent by Macbeth
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| Who brings Macbeth news of Banquo's murder at the banquet? | show 🗑
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| show | He tells him that Fleance escaped
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| What is the significance of Fleance's escape? | show 🗑
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| There is antithesis between the way that the banquet starts in A3S4 and the way that it ends. Explain the contrast. | show 🗑
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| show | Macduff
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| How has Macduff shown opposition against Macbeth in the first three acts of the play? | show 🗑
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| After the banquet, what does Macbeth tell Lady Macbeth he will do the next day? | show 🗑
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| Why is Hecate angry with the witches? | show 🗑
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| What are Hecate's feelings towards Macbeth? | show 🗑
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| What is Hecate planning for Macbeth in A3S6? | show 🗑
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| show | His ambition
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| show | In a dark cave
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| What are the witches doing before Macbeth meets with them in A4S1? | show 🗑
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| Comment on Macbeth's tone when he meets the witches in the cave? | show 🗑
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| show | Four
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| show | A helmeted head (head with armour) warning Macbeth against Macduff. This apparition represents Macbeth, a warrior, that will be beheaded by Macduff after they duel during the battle for Scotland.
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| show | A bloody baby saying that Macbeth cannot be killed by any man born of a woman. This makes him believe he cannot be killed, but this apparition represents Macduff, who was born by C-section and not naturally.
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| What is the third illusion the witches show Macbeth? | show 🗑
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| show | That there are two messengers to tell Macbeth that Macduff has gone to England.
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| What does the news of Macduff's fleeing to England make Macbeth decide to do? | show 🗑
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| show | 1. King Duncan reigned peacefully, while Macbeth brings chaos to Scotland. 2. King Duncan ruled fairly and rewarded his subjects; Macbeth rules through fear and punishment. 3. King Duncan was loyal to Scotland, where Macbeth seeks only personal power,
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| show | He wants to persuade Malcolm that there are people loyal to him in Scotland, who are willing to battle to make him king, and to persuade him that he should return.
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| Why doesn't Malcolm trust Macduff? | show 🗑
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| Malcolm tests Macduff by claiming he has 3 shortcomings. What are they? | show 🗑
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| Why does Malcolm lie to Macduff about his shortcomings? | show 🗑
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| Who arrives in England with the news of Macduff's family's murder? | show 🗑
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| show | 1. Good vs Evil
2. Kingship vs Tyranny
3. Guilt vs Innocence
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| What is the strategic importance of Dunsinane? | show 🗑
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| show | They watch as Lady Macbeth sleepwalks.
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| Mention a few things Lady Macbeth does during her sleepwalking. | show 🗑
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| show | After King Duncan was killed, Lady Macbeth told Macbeth that 'a little water clears us of this deed', yet now she obsessively rubs at the spot and cannot get it clean. She feels guilt for all the murders Macbeth has committed since.
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| What does Malcolm instruct the soldiers to do before they move through Birnam Wood? | show 🗑
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| show | Seyton
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| What is Macbeth's reaction to Lady Macbeth's death? | show 🗑
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| Who is killed by Macbeth in the battle at Dunsinane? | show 🗑
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| show | He asks if his wounds are on his front or on the back. If they are on the front, it would mean that he fought and died bravely. If on his back, it would mean he was a coward. He is proud that his wounds were on his front.
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| Malcolm tells Siward, "We have met with foes that strike beside us"; what does this mean? | show 🗑
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| Even after Dunsinane's defenses are breached, Macbeth still believes that one of the witches' prophecies will hold true; which one is this? | show 🗑
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| show | Macduff tells Macbeth that he 'was from my mother's womb untimely ripped', therefore not born naturally from a woman, but 'taken', meaning that he can kill Macbeth.
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| Why does Macduff want to be the one to kill Macbeth? | show 🗑
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| show | He wants to know whether Banquo's descendants will ever be kings of Scotland.
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| What do the witches show Macbeth when he demands to know about Banquo's descendants? | show 🗑
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| show | Macduff kills Macbeth
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| What is the first thing Malcolm does as king of Scotland? | show 🗑
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