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1
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What do the witches say to create an ambiguous atmosphere?

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‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’

2
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What quotation talks about Macbeth’s brutal killing of the rebel Macdonwald.

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‘He unseamed him from the nave to th’chops’

3
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What was the quotation that shows Banquo’s shock when the witches predictions come true?

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‘What! Can the devil speak true?’

4
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What quotation shows Macbeth’s struggles to hide his desires to kill the King?

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‘Let not light see my black and deep desires’

5
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What does Lady Macbeth say to show she is worried that Macbeth is too weak to kill Duncan?

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‘It is too full of the milk of human kindness’

6
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Duncan ironically says Macbeth’s castle is a lovely place.

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‘This castle hath a pleasant seat’

7
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What quotation shows that Macbeth recognises his ambition is running away from him?

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‘Vaulting ambition / Which overlaps itself’

8
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What does Macbeth say when he sees the vision of the dagger?

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‘Is this a dagger which I see before me?’

9
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What quotation shows that Lady Macbeth believes they can wash away the evidence after killing Duncan?

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‘A little water can clear us from this deed’

10
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What quotation shows Macduff’s utter disgust over finding Duncan’s corpse?

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‘Oh horror, horror, horror!’

11
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What quotation shows that Macduff goes home opposed to attending the coronation?

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‘No cousin, I’ll go to Fife’

12
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What quotation shows that Banquo is beginning to recognise Macbeth is scheming?

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‘I fear this play’dst most foully for it’

13
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What quotation shows that Macbeth’s mental state is beginning to deteriorate?

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‘O full of scorpions is my mind’

14
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What does Banquo cry to Fleance to escape.

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‘Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!’

15
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What does Macbeth order to Banqou’s ghost to get him to disappear?

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‘Hence, horrible shadow’

16
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What is Hecate’s description of Macbeth?

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‘A wayward son’ spiteful and wrathful’

17
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What quotation Lennox laments the state of Scotland under Macbeth’s reign?

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‘Our suffering country, under an accursed hand.’

18
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What quotation shows the witches describing Macbeth’s approach?

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‘Something wicked this way comes’

19
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What quotation shows Lady Macduff criticising her husband?

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‘Wisdom! To leave his wife, his babes?’

20
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What does Macduff say to show his utter grief when he discovers his family slaughtered?

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‘What, all my pretty chickens?’

21
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What quotation says that Lady Macbeth’s guilt cannot be washed away?

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‘Out, damned spot, out I say!’

22
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What quotation shows Angus’ description of Macbeth?

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‘Like a giant’s robe on a dwarfish thief’

23
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What does Macbeth say to remind himself that he is infallible ?

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‘No man born of woman shall ever have power upon thee’

24
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What quotation shows Malcolm ordering his soldiers to cut down trees for camouflage?

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‘Let every soldier hew him down a bough’

25
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What quotation shows Macbeth voicing his despair about the hopelessness of life?

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‘Life’s but a walking shadow’

26
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What quotations shows Malcolm’s description of Macduff as he leads the army into war?

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‘Worthy Macduff’

27
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What quotation shows Macbeth revelling in the belief he cannot be killed?

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‘But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn’

28
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What quotation declares that Macduff was not born of woman?

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‘Macduff was from his mothers womb/ Untimely ripped’