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THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH
EXTRACT A
Read the following extracts from the play and answer the questions set on each
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NOTE: Answer questions in your own words unless you are asked to quote
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BANQUO
How far is it call'd to Forres? - What are these
So withered and so wild in their attire,
That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth,
And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught
That man may question? You seem to understand me,
By each at once her choppy finger laying
Upon her skinny lips: you should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so
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To me you speak not
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First Witch
Hail!
Second Witch
Hail!
Third Witch
Hail!
First Witch
Lesser than Macbeth, and greater
Second Witch
Not so happy, yet much happier
Third Witch
Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none:
So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!
First Witch
Banquo and Macbeth, all hail!

Questions
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Write only the letter (A-E) next to the question
number (1
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(d)) in the ANSWER BOOK
COLUMN A
(a) Macbeth
(b) Macduff
(c) Banquo
( d) Malcolm

COLUMN B
A Thane of Fife
B too trusting
C has better judgement than his
father
D brave, Noble and honest
E challenges the witches to
speak but is startled by their
predictions

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5 Explain why the following statement is FALSE
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6 ldentify and discuss the theme of appearance and reality which is evident in the extract
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7 Can the witches be blamed for the tragedy in this drama?
Discuss your views
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(Enter BANQUO)
BANQUUO
Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,
AS the weird women promised, and, I fear,
Thou play'dst most foully for't: yet it was said
It should not stand in thy posterity,
But that myself should be the root and father
Of many kings
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(Sennet sounded
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LADY MACBETH
If he had been forgotten,
It had been as a gap in our great feast,
And all-thing unbecoming
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BANQUO
Let your highness
Command upon me; to the which my duties
Are with a most indissoluble tie
For ever knit
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Is't far you ride?
BANQUO

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As far, my lord, as will fill up the time
Twixt this and supper: go not my horse the better,
I must become a borrower of the night
For a dark hour or twain
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BANQUO
My lord, I will not
MACBETH
We hear, our bloody cousins are bestow'd
In England and in Ireland, not confessing
Their cruel parricide, filling their hearers
With strange invention: but of that to-morrow
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Hie you to horse: adieu,
Till you return at night
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Questions
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1 Who are the weird women' (line 3)?
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2 If you were the stage director of this play, what tone of voice would you tell Lady Macbeth to use
when saying lines 12-14, ('If he had been forgotten
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')?
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3 From the extract, what do you learn about the character of Banguo?
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4 Choose the correct answer to complete the following sentence
Write only the letter (A-D) and the question number (1
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4) in the
ANSWER BOOK, At the beginning of the extract Banguo is speaking his thoughts
aloud
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A the dialogue
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D an action
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('Sennet sounded')
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7 Refer to lines 26-27
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Ireland, not confessing')
From your knowledge of the drama, briefly explain who the 'bloody cousins' are and what are they
suppose to 'confess'
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2
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9 Refer to the drama as a whole
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(b) A / Thane of Fife
(c) D / brave, noble and honest
(d) C / has better judgement than his father
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2 They have choppy fingers and skinny lips
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He is murdered by Macbeth
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4 Macbeth is no longer noble
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After their encounter with the witches, Macbeth saw
Banquo as a threat/obstacle to be King of Scotland
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5 Banquo was stunned/shocked because he realises that the witches' first prediction comes true
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Macbeth is reflecting on the
weird meeting with the witches and their
prophecies, which seem to have been fanatical, yet true
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7 Open-ended
No
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But it is
important to realise that the witches never force anyone to do anything
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The witches do not have the power to kill or murder
anyone
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The witches can be blamed for their prophecies
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They approached him and created greed and obsession in him
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EXTRACT B Answers
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1The three witches
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2 Lady Macbeth should have a very determined tone
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He has more reasons to as he was
present when the witches predicted Macbeth's future
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Macbeth and Lady Macbeth were just crowned as King and Queen
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Unlike Macbeth, Banquo resist putting selfish ambition above his honour for his country (Scotland)
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After the King was murdered they fled in fear of their lives
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8 These visions and hallucinations are figments of his guilty imagination
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Macbeth is not only at war with others, but with himself as well
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Yes
The drama is still relevant today because there are still people like Macbeth
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He became greedy when the first prediction came true
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Status made him disloyal
to his counterparts and friends
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No
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Hierarchy in royalty is followed honourably
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Test yourself 1
Read the extracts from the play below and answer the questions set on each
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[Macbeth and Banquo encounter the witches’ heath]
MACBETH
So foul and fair a day I have not seen
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MACBETH
Speak, if you can: what are you?
First Witch
All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!
Second witch
All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!
Third Witch
All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!
BANQUO

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Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear
Things that do sound so fair? - I'th' the name ore of truth
Are ye fantastical, or that indeed
Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner
You greet with present grace and great prediction
Of noble having and of royal hope,
That he seems rapt withal
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If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not,
Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear
Your favours nor your hate
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Write only the letter
(A-E) next to the question numbers
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2
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('So foul and
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A Macbeth's
B Banquo's
C Duncan's
D Macduff's
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4 Refer to lines 7-8 ('By each at
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Why do the witches perform this action?
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5 Explain the real reason why the witches address Macbeth as the 'Thane of Cawdor' (line 13)
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8 How does Macbeth's and Banquo's reactions differ after their encounter with the witches?
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8 The witches are responsible for Macbeth's actions after their first meeting with him
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Test yourself 2
[Ross meets with Macduff and Malcolm in England]
MACDUFF: Stands Scotland where it did?
ROSS:

Alas poor country!
Almost afraid to know itself! It cannot
Be called our mother, but our grave; where nothing,
But who knows nothing, is once seen to smile;
Where sighs and groans and shrieks that rend the air,
Are made, not marked, where violent sorrow seems
A modern ecstasy
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MACDUFF:

O, relation,
Too nice, and yet too true!

MALCOLM:

not What' the newest grief?

ROSS: That of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker,
Each minute teems a new one
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MACDUFF:
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And all my children?
Well too
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MACDUFF: Be not a niggard of your speech, how goes't
ROSS: When I came hither to transport the tidings,
Which I have heavily borne, there ran a rumour
Of many worthy fellows that were out
Which was to my belief witnessed the rather,
For that I saw the tyrant's power a-foot
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Questions
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1 Why does Macduff ask Ross
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in their caps')
(a) ldentify the figure of speech in these lines
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3 Why is the following statement FALSE?
Malcolm has fled to Ireland to seek help for Scotland
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5 Refer to line 22 ('No they were
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6 Refer to line 23 ('Be not a
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Discuss how this theme is relevant to the character of Macbeth
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Discuss your view
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[Macbeth shares his thoughts
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If the assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch,
With his surcease, success; that but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all here,
But here upon this bank and shoal of time,
We ld jump the life to come
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This even-handed justice
Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips
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First, as am his kinsman and his subject,
Strong both against the deed; then as his host,
Who should against his murderer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself
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I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o erleaps itself
And falls on the other
Questions
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1 Complete the following sentences by using the words in the
list below
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and his other son, Donalbain, flees to
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family
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also flees after his
father's death
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life to come)
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(b) Explain why this is a suitable tone
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Quote TWO consecutive words from the extract which means overpowering aspirations
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6 Explain what is implied by double trust in line 12
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9 Macbeth is responsible for the tragedy that takes place in this play
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Test yourself 4
[Macbeth sees Banquo s ghost
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Please your highness
To grace us with your royal company
MACBETH: The table is full
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What is it that moves your highness?
MACBETH: Which of you have done this?
LORDS: What, my good lord?
MACBETH: Thou can't not say I did it
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ROSS: Gentlemen, rise
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LADY M: Sit, worthy friends
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Pray you, keep seat;
The fit is momentary, upon a thought
He will again be well
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Feed, and regard him not
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This is the air-drawn dagger which, you said,
Led you to Duncan
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Shame itself!
Why do you make such faces? When all is done,

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You look but on a stool
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2 Refer to line 1(Here had we now our country s honour roofed)
Choose the correct answer to complete the following sentence
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A personification
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C metaphor
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(b) Explain how this figure of speech emphasises what Macbeth is saying
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3 Explain why Macbeth keeps on talking about Banquo, who is not present
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(a) ls the word 'moves' used literally or figuratively?
(b Give a reason for your answer to QUESTION 1
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4(a)
(C) Explain what moves Macbeth in this extract
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4
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locks at me')
If you were the director of this play, what would you tell Macbeth to do while saying these lines? State
TWO actions
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Discuss this theme
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In your view, is the abuse of power, as portrayed in Macbeth, still relevant today?
Discuss your view
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The greatest is behind
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To BANQUO Do you not hope your children shall be kings,
When those that gave the thane of Cawdor to me
Promised no less to them?
BANQUO
That trusted home
Might yet enkindle you unto the crown,
Besides the thane of Cawdor But tis strange:
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray's
in deepest consequence
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-I thank you, gentlemen
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Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor;
If good, why do I yield to that suggestion
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
Against the use of nature? Present fears
Are less than horrible imaginings:
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical

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Shakes so my single state of man,
That function is smother’d in surmise,
And nothing is, but what is not
Act1, scene 3
Questions
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2 What does he mean by "The greatest is behind"?
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Explain the irony
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2 Did they, in fact, give him the title? Explain your answer
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What does this say about his attitude towards them?
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"Cannot be ill; cannot be good" (line 132)
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2 Quote a SINGLE LINE from the extract from lines 134 - 143 that supports your answer to 7
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Complete the statement in the play by the witches that is also contradictory, like the words spoken by
Macbeth: Fair is
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Exit Attendant to be thus is nothing;
But to be safely thus--Our fears in Banquo
Stick deep, and in his royalty of nature
Reigns that which would be fear'd: tis much he dares;

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And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,
He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour
To act in safety
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He chid the sisters
When first they put the name of king upon me,
And bade them speak to him: then prophet-like
They hail'd him father to a line of kings:
Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,
And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,
Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand,
No son of mine succeeding if't be so,
For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind;
For them the gracious Duncan have I murder'd:
Put rancours in the vessel of my peace
Only for them; and mine eternal jewel
Given to the common enemy of man,
To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!
Rather than so, come fate into the list
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1 What is Macbeth saying here?
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Why is "Banquo's royalty of nature" (line 50) a particular source o pain to Macbeth now?
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1 What do these words say about Banquo?
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Who are the sisters (line 57)?
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2 How does Macbeth plan to make sure that the witches prophecies concerning Banquo never come
true?
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Macbeth's castle]
Enter LADY MACBETH, reading a letter
LADY MACBETH
They met me in the day of success; and I have
learned by the perfectest report, they have more in
them than mortal knowledge
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Whiles I stood rapt in
the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who
all-hailed me "Thane of Cawdor", by which title
before, these Weird Sisters saluted me, and referred
me to the coming on of time, with "Hail, king that
shalt be!" This I have thought good to deliver
thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou
mightst not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being
ignorant of what greatness is promised thee
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Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be
What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature
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What thou wouldst highly,
That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false,
And yet wouldst wrongly win
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Act 1, Scene 5
Questions
1 Choose a description from COLUMN A that matches the word in COLUMN A
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(a) Who are the 'they' that are referred to in this line?
(b) Substantiate your answer to Question (a) from evidence in the extract
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'Hail, king that shalt be!'
(a) Would Lady Macbeth have been surprised reading about this prophecy?
Substantiate your answer
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too full o' the milk of human kindness
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Macbeth sees Lady Macbeth as his equal
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What's the boy Malcolm?
Was he not born of woman? The spirits that know
All mortal consequences have pronounced me thus:
'Fear not, Macbeth, no man that's born of woman
Shall ever have power upon thee
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Enter a Servant
The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon!
Where got'st thou that goose look?
SERVANT
There is ten thousandMACBETH
Geese, villain!
SERVANT
Soldiers, sir
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What soldiers, patch?
Death of thy soul! Those linen cheeks of thine
Are counsellors to fear
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MACBETH
Take thy face hence
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I have lived long enough, my way of life
Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf,
And that which should accompany old age,
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,
I must not look to have, but in their stead,
Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath,
Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not
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power upon thee,'
Explain the irony in the above lines
2 (a) Choose the correct answer to complete the following sentence
The phrase 'Where got'st thou that goose look? in line 12 is used as
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B personification
C a metaphor
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(b) Explain your answer to Question 2 (a)
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4 Refer to lines 16-17
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lily-livered boy'
What does Macbeth mean when he tells his servant to 'prick' his face?
5 State TWO things that the extract tells us about Macbeth
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I am sick at heart,
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7 Discuss the theme of deception which is evident in this extract

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