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English GCSE Macbeth Exam With 170 Q&A 2024 Verified Answers
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English GCSE Macbeth Exam With 170 Q&A 2024Verified Answers
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair." - ANSWER~ witches
- foreshadowing, setting the mood of the supernatural
"Let not light see my black and deep desires." - ANSWER~ Macbeth
- After Duncan announces that he will name his son Malcolm the next king, Macbeth
hopes his disappointment doesn't show. He must find a way to prevent Malcolm from
becoming king.
"Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full of the milk of human kindness." - ANSWER~ Lady
Macbeth (referring to Macbeth)
- She fears that Macbeth is too kind to go through with killing Duncan.
"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't." - ANSWER~ Lady Macbeth
(speaking to Macbeth)
- This is just before King Duncan's arrival at their castle. Macbeth's wife wants him to
act nice to Duncan's face, and hide his evil intentions.
"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!" - ANSWER~ Lady Macbeth
- calling on the spirits to take away her feminine, weakness and fill her with evil because
she wants Duncan dead.
"But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail." - ANSWER~ Lady Macbeth
- before they kill Duncan, she is reassuring Macbeth that everything will work out if he
fixes his courage firmly in place.
"False face must hide what false heart doth know." - ANSWER~ Macbeth
- He has decided he will go along with Lady Macbeth's plan to kill Duncan. Telling
himself that he must put on a false pleasant face to hide his false, evil heart.
"Had he not resembled
My father as he slept, I had done't." (referring to Duncan) - ANSWER~ Lady Macbeth
- She would've killed Duncan herself but as he was sleeping he looked like her father.
"What hands are here? Ha: they pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune's ocean
wash this blood clean from my hand?" - ANSWER~ Macbeth
- looking at his hands after he has just killed Duncan. He wonders if all of the water in
the ocean could wash the blood off his hands.
,"Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?" - ANSWER~ Macbeth
- Hallucinating that he sees a dagger before he kills Duncan.
"Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all,
As the weird women promised, and I fear
Thou play'dst most foully for't." - ANSWER~ Banquo (referring to Macbeth)
- meaning: well now you have everything that you were promised by the witches. I just
fear that you did something bad to get it.
"He's here in double trust. First, as I am his kinsman and his subject... then, as his
host." - ANSWER~ Macbeth (referring to King Duncan)
- Listing reasons why he shouldn't kill Duncan. Duncan trusts Macbeth for two reasons:
he is his kinsman/subject, and his host.
"A little water clears us of this deed." - ANSWER~ Lady Macbeth
- After killing Duncan, she tells Macbeth that all they have to do is wash their hands and
they will be cleared of their sin.
fair is foul and foul is fair - ANSWERAct 1, Scene 1 - Witches - paradox - supernatural
O valiant cousin, worthy gentleman - ANSWERAct 1, Scene 2 - Duncan - bloodshed is
revelled in - brutality a virtue
So foul and fair a day I have not seen - ANSWERAct 1, Scene 3 - Macbeth - opening
line - paradox similar to witches - potential for supernaturalness
You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so -
ANSWERAct 1, Scene 3- Macbeth - Witches = supernatural and transgressive of
gender
Thou shalt get Kings, though thou be none - ANSWERAct 1, Scene 3 - Third Witch -
prophecy - Banquo
Why do you dress me in borrow'd robes? - ANSWERAct 1, Scene 3 - Macbeth to Ross -
disbelief of prohpecy becoming true - theatrical imagery
The instruments of darkness tell us truths - ANSWERAct 1, Scene 3 - Banquo - less
trustworthy of witches - calm and sceptical
Speak, I charge you! - ANSWERAct 1, Scene 3 - Macbeth - imperative - witches fail to
obey - lack of control? - argues against supernatural powers
Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires - ANSWERAct 1,
Scene 4 - Macbeth (aside) -
, Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here - ANSWERAct 1, Scene
5 - Lady Macbeth - similar to witches - supernatural relations - transgression of gender -
imperatives - urgency - desperation - recurrence of 'un': cannot undo actions
Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell - ANSWERAct 1, Scene 5
- Lady Macbeth - light/dark imagery - Hellish imagery - guilt - shroud for dead bodies -
concealment - conspiracy - relates to Macbeth's 'Stars hide your fires...' - femme fatale
Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't - ANSWERAct 1, Scene 5 -
Lady Macbeth - religious imagery - Adam and Eve - sin against God - regicide -
deception - conspiracy -transgressive femme fatale
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague th'inventor - ANSWERAct 1,
Scene 7 - Macbeth - fears moral consequences - humility - psychological state
Vaulting ambition - ANSWERAct 1, Scene 7 - Gothic ambition - fatal flaw of tragic hero -
only motive to kill - realises it is untrustworthy
There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out - ANSWERAct 2, Scene 1 -
Banquo - Religious imagery - dark imagery
Is this a dagger which I see before me - ANSWERAct 2, Scene 1 - Macbeth - visions -
horror image - two interpretations: dagger of Macbeth's imagination OR conjured by the
Witches to spur on Macbeth to kill Duncan - ambiguity of supernatural
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still - ANSWERAct 2, Scene 1 - Macbeth dagger
soliloquy - contradictions like the Witches
Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done't - ANSWERAct 2, Scene 2 -
Lady Macbeth - indicates she has some conscience - not purely evil
I could not say 'Amen' - ANSWERAct 2, Scene 2 - Macbeth - Amen means 'so be it' in
Hebrew - cannot ask for anything given his sin - guilt
Macbeth shall sleep no more - ANSWERAct 2, Scene 2 - Macbeth thinks he heard a
voice cry 'sleep no more!' - accepts danger of sleep when he is to be king - insomnia -
erratic and tyrannical behaviour
The devil himself could not pronounce a title more hateful to mine ear - ANSWERAct 5,
Scene 7 - Young Siward - religious imagery - hatred for Macbeth publicly known
This dead butcher and his fiend like queen - ANSWERAct 5, Scene 8 - Malcolm -
butcher: someone who kills with no remorse or regret or reason - fiend - evil and
immoral, capable of enchanting victims into a false sense of security
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