Macbeth Quotes (CHARACTER)

Question 1

Beginning of play, Macbeth is viewed as noble and brave

Answer 1

• “Bellona’s Bridegroom” Ross A1 S2
• “For Brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name) / Disdaining Fortune with his brandished steel, / which smoked with bloody execution.” Macbeth A1 S2

Question 2

Before the TP, Macbeth is beginning to change, briefly considers murdering Duncan

Answer 2

-“If good, why do I yield to that suggestion / whose horrid image doth unfix my hair / and make my seated heart knock at my ribs / against the use of nature?” Macbeth A1 S3

Question 3

Set during TP, where Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to kill Duncan

Answer 3

• “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” Lady Macbeth A1 S7
• “False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” Macbeth A1 S7

Question 4

Set after the TP, Macbeth’s guilt is taking over him, he hallucinates and is affected daily

Answer 4

• “Is this a dagger which I see before me, / the handle toward my hand? Come let me / clutch thee: / I have thee not , and yet I see thee still.” Macbeth A2 S1
• “But wherefore could I not pronounce ‘Amen’? I had most need of blessing and ‘Amen’ stuck in my throat” Macbeth A2 S2

Question 5

Set after the murder of Duncan, Macbeth has changed for the worse, he has now killed Banquo without the influence of his wife

Answer 5

• “To be thus is nothing, / but to be safely thus.” Macbeth A3 S1
• “Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck” Macbeth A3 S2

Question 6

Set after Banquo’s death, everyone hates Macbeth, he is killed by Macduff

Answer 6

• “But gentle heavens, / cut short all information front to front / bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself. / Within my swords length set him; if he ‘scape / heaven forgive him too” Macduff A4 S3
• “Behold where stands / the usurper’s cursed head. The time is free” Macduff A5 S8