Macbeth Quotes and what to say about them!

Macbeth Quotes

• You need to KNOW quotations

• But more importantly can you use them

• What can you say about the quotations

• YOU MUST TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY - I WILL PRINT OF YOUR WORK TO CHECK WHAT YOU SAY

WHO SAID WHAT

and WHEN!

Multiple Choice

'Out, damned spot! Out, I say!' Who says this and where in the play.

• Macbeth after Duncan's murder

• Lady Macbeth at the end when she's gone mad

• Lady Macbeth at the beginning after Duncan's murder

Multiple Choice

'All my pretty ones? Did you say all?' Who says this and when?

• Macbeth after his castle has been taken over

• Lady Macduff after her children have been murdered

• Macduff after Macbeth has murdered all of his children

Multiple Choice

'Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself' Who says this and when?

• Macbeth when he is trying to decide whether to kill Duncan

• Lady Macbeth when she is saying Macbeth is weak

• Macbeth at the beginning when Duncan has been kind to him

Multiple Choice

'There's daggers in men's smiles' Who says this and when?

• Lady Macbeth when telling Macbeth to be venomous

• Donalbain to Malcom after their father has been killed

• Donalbain to Malcom when they return to Scotland

Multiple Choice

'Are you a man?' Who says this and when? Who says this and when?

• Banquo to Macbeth when they meet the witches

• Lady Macbeth to Macbeth when he sees Banquo's ghost

• Lady Macbeth when she is saying Macbeth is weak

Multiple Choice

'And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp.' Who says this and when?

• Lady Macbeth moments before her death

• Rosse to the Old Man after the death of Duncan

• Banquo to Macbeth after they meet the witches

Multiple Choice

'I'll devil-porter it no further.' Who says this and when?

• The porter as the castle gate

• Macbeth after he has murdered the King

• Macduff after hearing his family have been murdered

Multiple Choice

'Sleep no more, Macbeth does murder sleep.' Who says this and when?

• Macbeth at the end just before he is killed

• Lady Macbeth after Macbeth has 'killed' Banquo

• Macbeth after he has murdered Duncan

Knowing the quotations

• How many did you get right?

• If one appeared on the exam what would you be able to say about it?

• If you needed one of these to use in 'elsewhere in the play' what could you say about it?

• You need to make a revision aide from your answers

You need to be able to talk about:

• the way Shakespeare uses language (words, methods) to create meaning

• Some context

• How the quotation relates to other parts of the play

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Multiple Choice

'Out, damned spot! Out, I say!' We know that Lady Macbeth says this.

What THEME is covered?

• Cleanliness

• Guilt

• Ambition

Open Ended

'Out, damned spot! Out, I say!' Explain how this quote shows the audience GUILT? Write about all the possibilities...

Open Ended

'Out, damned spot! Out, I say!' Explore the use of punctuation in this quotation. What and why has Shakespeare used this structure?

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Zooming in on ... 'damned'.

How might this adjective effect the audience?

Open Ended

'Out, damned spot! Out, I say!' Does Shakespeare use repetition here? Why and what is the effect?

Multiple Select

'All my pretty ones? Did you say all?' What emotions might this quote evoke from the audience? (3)

• Sadness

• Sympathy for Macduff

• Horror at the massacre

• Macduff seeming pathetic

Open Ended

'All my pretty ones? Did you say all?'

Write about the methods that Shakespeare uses here to emphasise these emotions. What can you pick out, can you WALAAL?

Open Ended

'All my pretty ones? Did you say all?' How is this quote about Macbeth? What does it say about him?

Open Ended

'All my pretty ones? Did you say all?'

What other parts of the play can you connect with this...?

Multiple Select

'Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself'. What method is used here? (2)

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Foreshadowing

Open Ended

'Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself'. Choose one method, Metaphor or Foreshadowing and write about how it is effective in this part of the story.

Poll

'Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself'

Do 'vaulting' and 'overleaps' mean this same thing?

• yes

• no

Open Ended

What does Shakespeare want us to think about 'VAULTING'? How is this different to 'OVERLEAPS'? What does this quote make the audience feel about Macbeth at this point in the play?

Multiple Select

'Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself'.

Can we use this quote to talk about these points in the play? (3)

• When he has failed at the end?

• When he sees Banquo's ghost?

• When Lady Macbeth has to convince him to act?

• When he learns that Lady Macbeth has ended her life.

Multiple Choice

'There's daggers in men's smiles.' Can you remember who says this?

• Malcolm to Macduff

• Donalbain to Malcolm

• L Macbeth the Macbeth

Multiple Choice

'There's daggers in men's smiles.' What method has Shakespeare used here?

• Shakespeare uses onomatopoeia

• Shakespeare uses a metaphor

• Shakespeare uses rhythm

Open Ended

'There's daggers in men's smiles.' Using the words - Shakespeare uses a metaphor... can you explain how and why he uses a metaphor in this quotation...

Open Ended

Zoom in on the word 'daggers'. Write down all the CONNOTATIONS of this word...

Open Ended

Why might Shakespeare have chosen 'daggers' and not knives as the word here? Write down all the other parts of the plot that you can connect with this quotation.

Multiple Choice

'Are you a man?' Why does Lady Macbeth says this again?

• Because she just thinks he's completely weak

• Because he is acting strangely when he sees Banquo's Ghost

• Because she is trying to convince him to be brave

Multiple Select

'Are you a man?' Lady Macbeth says this because people at the time believed that...

• men should always be totally masculine.

• men should never show fear.

• a man should always be the strongest.

• All of the above!

Poll

Does Lady Macbeth use language - her words - to manipulate Macbeth?

• No

• Yes

Open Ended

What other words can we think off that mean 'manipulative'...

Open Ended

'Are you a man?' We often talk about what Shakespeare does with language, but here I want you to focus on what the speaker does here and throughout the play to get what they want. How are these words manipulative, and where else are they?

Open Ended

The theme of an exam question is about masculinity. What can you say about the words 'Are you a man?' and 'All my pretty ones? Did you say all?'

Multiple Choice

Recall who says 'And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp.'

• Macbeth after Lady Macbeth has died

• The Porter to no one in particular

• Rosse the the Old Man

Multiple Choice

'And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp' is a metaphor. What is the 'travelling lamp'?

• A torch that moves along

• The sun

• A candle

Multiple Choice

'And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp'.

The sun is strangled meaning this quotation also features...

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Open Ended

'And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp'.

The sun is strangled meaning this quotation also features personification. What is the effect of this method and how does it relate to the plot as a whole?

Multiple Select

'And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp'.

The sun is strangled by darkness suggesting which theme? (3)

• Fulfilment

• The supernatural

• Good vs Evil

• Fear

Open Ended

'And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp'.

Describe using ideas from the quote how Shakespeare creates atmosphere here.

Multiple Choice

'I'll devil-porter it no further'.

Who says this...

• Macbeth

• The Porter

• Banquo

Multiple Choice

'I'll devil-porter it no further'. What is the Porter pretending to be here?

• A sleep

• The gate keeper to hell

• He's not pretending, he's just drunk

Multiple Choice

'Sleep no more, Macbeth does murder sleep.' Says who...?

• Lady Macbeth

• Duncan

• Macbeth

Open Ended

'Sleep no more, Macbeth does murder sleep.' Macbeth just killed Duncan. What does this quote mean and what are the alternative meanings?

Open Ended

'Sleep no more, Macbeth does murder sleep.' What themes could be connected to this quotation?

Open Ended

'Sleep no more, Macbeth does murder sleep.' Macbeth states that he hears a voice say these words... write about how this could be possible.

Open Ended

'Sleep no more, Macbeth does murder sleep.'

Who also suffers from disturbed sleep - are these people suffering from similar emotions - what is that emotion? Why does Shakespeare want the audience to explore this emotion?

Open Ended

Near the end of this short scene who does The Porter let into the castle and what do they discover?

Open Ended

Why does Shakespeare ensure that The Porter talks about the devil and hell here? What ideas is he trying to plant or cement into the audience's mind.