Macbeth Act 1 Quiz

Front 1

Whether to kill Duncan or not, a moral choice

Back 1

Morality Play

Front 2

When a character confesses how he really feels to the audience but the other people in the play don't know

Back 2

Aside

Front 3

Only one person on stage giving a speech

Back 3

Soliloquy

Front 4

Audience knows what is about to happen to character but the character doesn't know

Back 4

Dramatic Irony

Front 5

2nd theme of the play, not being able to sleep

Back 5

Sleeplessness

Front 6

3rd major theme

Back 6

"false face" or appearance vs. reality

Front 7

Macbeth's reign

Back 7

1040-1057

Front 8

Has to get paws yet, just like Macbeth has to get his hands dirty (kill duncan)

Back 8

"the cat in the adage"

Front 9

Heir to the throne of Scotland

Back 9

Prince of Cumberland

Front 10

He was killed because of treason, his title was given to Macbeth

Back 10

Thane of Cawdor

Front 11

Macbeth's only motivating factor towards killing Duncan

Back 11

Ambition

Front 12

Lady Macbeth used this against Macbeth to get him to kill/help kill Duncan

Back 12

Manhood

Front 13

1st Major theme

Back 13

Witches, Foul is fair

Front 14

Macdonwald

Back 14

Thane of Cawdor who Macbeth killed by cutting him in half with his sword because of committing treason, gives Macbeth the title of "Thane of Cawdor"

Front 15

Sailors wife

Back 15

The witch asks a sailors wife who is cracking chestnuts if she could have some, the wife says no, so the witch is going to make her husbands ship go in circles out at sea

Front 16

"hang upon his penthouse lid"

Back 16

The witch is going to keep the sailor awake to the point of torture, his eyes wont be able to close so he can't sleep. She won't sink his ship but she'll make him wish it would sink. This brings in the second theme of "sleeplessness"

Front 17

"so foul and fair a day i have not seen"

Back 17

the storm is foul, and it is
"fair" that they won the battle against Norway

Front 18

"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?"

Back 18

Macbeth is contemplating the murder of Duncan so he can become the King of Scotland but Duncan doesn't deserve to be murdered so Macbeth is unsure

Front 19

"think upon what hath chanced, and at more time, the interim having weighed it, let us speak our free hearts to each other"

Back 19

Macbeth wants to speak privately and more openly with Banquo

Front 20

"there's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. He was a gentleman on whom i built an absolute trust"

Back 20

You can't tell what they're thinking just by looking at them

Front 21

"The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step on which I must...which my eye fears, when it is done, to see"

Back 21

Macbeth plans on murdering Malcolm

Front 22

"Hie thee hither, that i may pour my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valor of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round, which fate and metaphysical aid

Back 22

Lady Macbeth talking about how she is going to have to convict Duncan because Duncan is all that holds Macbeth from getting the crown

Front 23

"Your hand, your tongue. Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it"

Back 23

Pretend be nice like a flower, but inside be evil and mean. This all revolves around the theme of False Face.

Front 24

"Have theirs, themselves, and what is theirs in compt"

Back 24

Lady Macbeth talking to Duncan saying that what is theirs (servants) is Duncan's

Front 25

"With his surcease success, that but this blow might be the be-all and the end-all here"

Back 25

Macbeth in his soliloquy saying that if he only has to kill Duncan and no one else he's more likely to get away with it

Front 26

"Duncan, hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been so clear in his great office, this his virtues will plead like angels..."

Back 26

Macbeth in his soliloquy again saying Duncan has been a good king and doesn't really deserve to be killed

Front 27

Plan to kill Duncan by Lady Macbeth

Back 27

Shes going to knock out Duncan and his 2 guards with intense sleeping pills. Then she's going to take the guards daggers and stab Duncan to death. Then shes going to take the daggers and smear the blood all over the guards so in the morning when they're found it will look like the guards did it

Front 28

"As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that which thou esteem'st the ornament of life and live a coward in thine own esteem, letting "I dare not" wait upon "i would, like the poor cat in the adage?"

Back 28

Coming from Lady Macbeth telling Macbeth that if he wants the crown bad enough he's going to have to get dirty to get it by killing Duncan

Front 29

"I have given suck, and know how tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this"

Back 29

Lady Macbeth saying if she was breast feeding her own son she would take him from her nipple and throw him against a brick wall and kill him if she had sworn to Macbeth she would, or if Macbeth asked her to

Front 30

"Bring forth men-children only, for they undaunted mettle should compose nothing but males. Will it not be received, when we have marked with blood those sleepy two of his own chamber and used their very daggers, that they have done it"

Back 30

Macbeth saying to Lady Macbeth to only have male children cause males can do the "dirty work" better and he's worried females would end up like Lady Macbeth, crazy.