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What two predictions do the witches make about Macbeth?
What are their predictions for Banquo?
What title does King Duncan give to his son, Malcolm?
What does the Thane of Cawdor do?
What does Duncan order be done to the Thane of Cawdor?
While Banquo speaks to Ross and Angus in Scene 3, what does Macbeth
contemplate doing that makes his heart pound?
Where do the witches agree to meet?
What happens to the thane of Cawdor's titles?
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What prediction do the witches make about Banquo?
Paradox
Directions: Explain the following paradoxes.
The witches chant "Fair is foul, and foul is fair." Explain this paradox.
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In an aside Macbeth declares that the witches prophesies "cannot be ill,
cannot be good." Explain this paradox.
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Quote Identification
Directions: Identify the speaker, the setting, and explain the meaning of the
quote.
"Look like th' innocent flower, but be the serpent under 't"
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"I dare do all that may become a man, who dares do more is none."
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"I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, only vaulting ambition which
o'erleaps itself and falls on th' other."
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"If it were done when 'tis done then 'twere well It were done quickly."
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"Unsex me here"
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"We will proceed no further in this business."
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"...we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague
th' inventor..."
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