Quotes by Theme

Question 1

MACBETH - Initial Presentation

(4)

Answer 1

1. “Brave Macbeth”
2. “Bellona’s bridegroom”
3. “Stars hide your fires/ let not light see my black andd eep desires”
4. “Unseamed him from the nave to the chops”

Question 2

OTHELLO - Initial Presentation

(4)

Answer 2

1. “My parts, my title and my perfect soul”
2. “Valiant, brave and wise”
3. “Keep up your bright swords or the dew will rust them”
4. “She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them”

Question 3

MACBETH - Influences (Lady Macbeth)

(5)

Answer 3

1. “Pour mine spirits in thine ear”
2. “Are you a man?”
3. “Unsex me here”
4. “Look like the flower but be the seprent under’t”
5. “A foolish thought to say a sorry sight”

Question 4

MACBETH - Influences (Witches)

(5)

Answer 4

1. “All hail Macbeth, thou shalt be King hereafter”
2. “Stay you imperfect speakers, tell me more”
3. “Speak I charge you”
4. “If chance will have me King, why chance may crown me”
5. “The instruments of darkness tell us truths; win us with honest trifles to betray us in deepest conseuence”

Question 5

OTHELLO - Influences (Iago)

(10)

Answer 5

1. “I’ll pour pestilence in his ear”
2. “Make the net that shall enmesh them all”
3. “With as little web as this I will ensnare a great a fly as Cassio”
4. “I will in Cassio’s lodging lose this napkin/ and let him find it”
5. “Iago is most honest”
6. “That he would steal away so guilty-like, seing you coming”
7. “Is he not honest?/”Honest, my lord?”
8. “O bewre my lord of jealousy, it is the green eyed monster”
9. “Observe her well with Cassio, wear your eye”
10. “Behold her topped?”

Question 6

MACBETH - Committing

(2)

Answer 6

1. “Is this a dagger I see before me, the handle towards my hand?” / “and on the blade […] gouts of blood”
2. “I go and it is done”

Question 7

OTHELLO - Committing

(2)

Answer 7

1. “In the due reverence of a sacred vow, I here engage my words”
2. “But let her live”

Question 8

MACBETH - Violence + Impact

(10)

Answer 8

1. Tis said, they eat each other”
2. Seize upon Fife; give to the edge o’the sword his wife, his babes and all the unfortunate souls”
3. “I am in blood stepp’d so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er”
4. “Blood will have blood”
5. “We are yet but young indeed”
6. The Thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now? What, will these hands ne’er be clean?”
7. “Macbeth doth murder sleep - the innocent sleep”
8. “O full of scorpions is my mind”
9. “But wherefore could I not pronounce Amen”
10. “Will all great Neptune’s oceans wash this blood clean from my hand”

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Question 9

OTHELLO - Violence + Impact

(6)

Answer 9

1. “O monstrous, monstrous! […] I will tear her all to pieces”
2. “I will chop her into messes, cukhold me!”
3. “Arise black vengeance form thy hollow cell! Yield, O love, they crown and heartened throne to tyrranous hate”
4. “[He strikes her”
5. “O blood, blood blodd”
6. “Zounds!”

Question 10

MACBETH - Ending

(5)

Answer 10

1. “Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen”
2. “I will not yield to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet”
3. “In double sense”
4. “Tied me to a stake I cannot fly but bear-ike I must fight the cause”
5. “And thou oppos’d being of no women born, yet I will try the last”

Question 11

OTHELLO - Ending

(4)

Answer 11

1. “Like the base Indian threw a pearl away richer than all the tribe”
2. “Of one that loved not wisely but too well; of one not easily jealous but being wrought perplexed in the extreme”
3. “I kissed thee ere I killed thee; no way but this, killing myself, to die upon a kiss”
4. “From this point forth I never will speak a word”

Question 12

MACBETH - Women

(2)

Answer 12

1. “Out damned spot! Out I say!”
2. “Be innocent of the knowledge”

Question 13

OTHELLO - Women

(3)

Answer 13

1. “I understand the firy in your words but not the words”
2. “I had rather have lost my purse”
3. “Villainous whore!”

Question 14

MACBETH - MacDuff

(1)

Answer 14

1. “Front to front, bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself; within my sword’s length”

Question 15

OTHELLO - Emilia

(2)

Answer 15

1. “But I do think it is their husband’s faults if wives do fall; say they slack in their duties […] say they strike us”
2. “What is it that they do when they change us for others? Is it sport?”

Question 16

OTHELLO - Cassio

(1)

Answer 16

1. “Cassio I love thee, but never more be officer of mine”