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1) ‘Had I but died an hour before this chance
I had liv’e a blessed time; for, from this instant,
There’s nothing serious in mortality,
All is but toys; renown and grace is dead,
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.’
a) The value of life
b) Man versus Nature
c) Man’s relationship with God
d) Deciding where loyalty is due
e) Faith
2) O gentle lady!
‘Tis not for you to hear what I can speak;
The repetition in a woman’s ear
Would murder as it fell.’ -Macduff
a) This is an instance of metaphor
b) This is an instance of catharsis
c) This is an instance of the tragic flaw
d) This is an instance of aside
e) This is an instance of dramatic irony
3) ‘The night has been unruly: where we lay,
Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,
Lamentings heard i’ the air; strange screams of death,
And prophesying with accents terrible
Of dire combustion and confus’d events
New hatch’d to the woeful time. The obscure bird
Clamour’d the livelong night: some say the earth
Was feverous and did shake.’ -Lennox
a) Man versus Nature
b) Natural versus the Supernatural
c) The ends justify the means
d) Violence and Peace
e) Gluttony
4) ‘My hands are of your colour, but I shame
To wear a heart so white.
I hear a knocking
At the sout entry; retire we to our chamber;
A little water clears us of this deed;
How easy is it, then! Your constancy
Hath left you unattended.’ -Lady Macbeth
a) The ends justify the means
b) Motherhood
c) The traits of a good and decent king
d) Femininity and Strength
e) Guilt
5) ‘Infirm of purpose!
Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead
Are but as pictures; ’tis the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed,
I’ll gild the faces of the grooms withal;
For it must seem their guilt.’ -Lady Macbeth
a) Masculinity, femininity, fear, and strength
b) The inherent value of life
c) Violence and Peace
d) Marriage, Fidelity, and Commitment
e) The strength of love
6) ‘I’ll go no more:
I am afraid to think what I have done;
Look on’t again I dare not.’ – Macbeth
a) Greed
b) Respecting your elders
c) Guilt
d) The finality of death
e) Man’s relationship with God
7) ‘These deeds must not be thought
After these ways; so, it will make us mad.’ -Lady Macbeth
a) Motherhood
b) Enjoyment versus Health
c) Masculinity
d) Violence and Peace
e) Guilt
8) ‘But wherefore could I not pronounce ‘Amen’?
I had most need of blessing, and ‘Amen’
Stuck in my throat.’ – Macbeth
a) Femininity and Strength
b) Guilt
c) Violence and Power
d) Man versus Nature
e) The ends justify the means
9) ‘That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold,
What hath quench’d them hath given me fire.’ – Lady Macbeth
a) This is an example of tragic flaw
b) This is an example of tragic hero
c) This is an example of Shakespeare’s wordplay
d) This is an example of catharsis
e) This is an example of personification
10) ‘I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters:
To you they have show’d some truth.’ – Banquo
a) The danger of knowledge
b) The strength of love
c) Greed
d) Individual versus Society
e) Femininity and Beauty
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