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Macbeth – Homework Review
Part I – Identifications – define or explain the importance of each item as it relates to the play’s
plot and theme.
SETTING
1. Describe the setting of the play / where is it set? –
2. Inverness is
3. Dunsinane is
4. Birnam Wood is
5. England is
6. Ireland is
7. Inverness is
8. Fife is
9. Scone is
CHARACTERS
1. Macbeth
2. Macduff
3. Malcolm
4. Donalbain
5. Duncan
6. Banquo
7. Fleance
8. Siward
9. Young Siward
10. Lady Macbeth
11. Lady Macduff
12. The Witches
13. The Apparitions
14. The owl, falcon, scorpions, and horses
LITERARY TERMS
1. An aside is
2. Dramatic irony is
SYMBOLS AND THEMES (How/Where/When do we see these? How are they important?
1. Sleep
2. Animal imagery
3. Childlessness
4. Blood
5. Manhood
6. Ambition
7. Guilt
Part II – Quote identification (5)
1. Who is the speaker?
2. Who is the speaker talking to?
3. Why is the quote important? *** What does the quote inform us about?
1. Fair is foul, and foul is fair.
Speaker
Who is speaker talking to?
Why is it important?
2. The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements. 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!
Speaker
3. Here’s the smell of blood still. All
The perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little
Hand. Oh, oh, oh!
Speaker
Who is speaker talking to?
Why is it important?
Who is speaker talking to?
Why is it important?
4. The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap,
For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires:
Let not light see my black and deep desires;
The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be
Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Speaker
5. I am settled, and bend up
Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.
Away, and mock the time with fairest show:
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
Speaker
Who is speaker talking to?
Why is it important?
Who is speaker talking to?
Why is it important?
6. Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One; two. Why,
Then ‘tis time to do ‘t. Hell is murky! Fie, my lord, fie! A
solder, And afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when
none can call our power to account? Yet who would have
thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
Speaker
7. Be bloody, bold, and resolute!
Laugh to scorn
The pow’r of man, for none of woman born
Shall harm Macbeth
Speaker
Who is speaker talking to?
Why is it important?
Who is speaker talking to?
Why is it important?
8. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from
the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?
Speaker
9. Methought I heard a voice cry, “Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep,” the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,
The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast -
Speaker
10. What beast was’t, then,
That made you break this enterprise to me?
When you durst do it, then you were a man;
And, to be more than what you were, you would
Be so much more the man.
Speaker
11. Malcolm tells this character to “Dispute it like a man.”
I shall do so. But I must also feel it as a man. I cannot but
remember such things that were most precious to me.
Speaker
Who is speaker talking to?
Why is it important?
Who is speaker talking to?
Why is it important?
Who is speaker talking to?
Why is it important?
Who is speaker talking to?
Why is it important?
12. I will not yield to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s
feet and to be baited with the rabble’s curse. Though
Birnam Wood to come to Dunsinane and thou opposed,
being of no woman born, yet I will try the last. Before my
body I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff, and
damned be him that first cries “Hold! Enough!”
Speaker
Who is speaker talking to?
Why is it important?
Part III. Literary Essay
Describe Macbeth’s transformation from the beginning of the play until the end. How does he
change internally or psychologically? Be able to identify examples of all the ways he changes.