Lady Macbeth

Lady Macbeth

Let's start with a quiz on Lady Macbeth!

Multiple Choice

What is Lady Macbeth doing when she first appears on stage?

• Cooking

• Cleaning

• Reading a letter

• Writing a letter

Multiple Choice

In the letter Macbeth refers to her as his "dearest partner of ________."

• weakness

• greatness

• in crime

• masculinity

Multiple Choice

(1.5) Lady Macbeth worries that Macbeth is "too full of the _____ of human kindness"

• milk

• orange juice

• tea

• coffee

Multiple Choice

When Lady Macbeth is told that Duncan will visit she has another soliloquy in which she says: "The ______ himself is hoarse/that croaks the entrance of Duncan under my battlements"

• Crow

• Eagle

• Owl

• Raven

Multiple Choice

What does Lady Macbeth ask the spirits for?

• To kill Duncan for her

• To be 'unsexed'

• To set up a meeting for witches

Multiple Choice

Why does she ask the spirits for this?

• Because she is pure evil

• As a woman she has no real power beyond the domestic sphere and as she considers Macbeth to have too many 'feminine' qualities she needs more of the qualities required to do what needs to be done to secure the throne

• She is actually the fourth witch and has been controlling Macbeth all along

Multiple Choice

How do we know in Act One Scene Five that Lady Macbeth hasn't completely lost all sense of her own morality?

• She asks to be palled in the 'dunnest smoke of hell' to hide from heaven/God. She therefore understands how she will be viewed and wants to hide herself from divine judgement.

• She prays for a peaceful death for Duncan

Multiple Choice

Why is the biblical allusion in this scene "look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under't significant"

• Lady Macbeth is the perfect woman and just like Eve is a woman who can be trusted to do the right thing.

• Macbeth is like the snake tempting Lady Macbeth with thoughts of power

• The Adam and Eve story involved a snake and Lady M is like a snake as she is so slippery

• Lady Macbeth is like an Eve figure in the play tempting her husband into giving into temptation. Eve is often blamed for the downfall of humanity. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth's downfall is similar.

Multiple Choice

In Act One Scene Seven what does Macbeth tell his wife?

• Let's kill Duncan with poison

• We will proceed no further in this business

Multiple Choice

“I have given suck and know how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me. I would while it was smiling in my face…dashed the brains out”

Why is this line so important?

• She refers to infanticide: the epitome of evil. It is made the worse by the fact that she refers to the baby 'smiling' which makes her description of 'dashing' the brains out seem all the more violent and disturbing. She is willing to sacrifice her maternal instincts.

• She is referring to the baby she had by her first marriage and is telling Macbeth that she would be willing to sacrifice that child so that the bloodline would be pure in terms of who gets to move up to the throne.

Multiple Choice

After the murder scene Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth:

• You have murdered sleep

• You are a monster

• A little water clears us of this deed

• Be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck

Multiple Choice

In Act Three Scene Two - how does the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth change?

• Lady Macbeth becomes reliant on Macbeth and Macbeth becomes the dominant figure in the relationship

• Lady Macbeth becomes more and more powerful

Multiple Choice

Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth to "be ________of the knowledge dearest________"

• innocent, chuck

• guilty, bird

• innocent, partner

• innocent, serpent

Multiple Choice

In Act Five Scene One what is different about Lady Macbeth's speech?

• She now speaks in prose

• She now speaks in verse

• She is a speaking Greek

Multiple Choice

How is Lady Macbeth referred to at the very end of the play by Malcolm?

• Mother

• Fiend-like queen

• Serpent

• Witch