Macbeth Exam reassessment work
Identify the following characters from the play:
-Thinks that the blood on his or her hands will make the oceans red, rather than be cleansed
-A noble whose absence from the banquet upsets Macbeth; later Macbeth kills his family
-A noble whose ghostly presence at the banquet disturbs Macbeth
-Kills him or herself after sleepwalking
-Fleance’s father
-Executes a rebel to protect and aid King Duncan
-A counterpoint (kind of like a balance) to Lady Macbeth’s terrible woman
-Is beheaded in the end of the play
-Takes the daggers to place them on the body
-Appeared like Lady Macbeth’s father
-Concludes that his or her life is a “tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury and signifying nothing”
-Can’t stop washing her hands
-Causes a sailor to be lost, thrown about by winds because of what the sailor’s wife did
-Asks the spirits to “… fill me from the crown to the toe top-full / Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood, / Stop up the
access and passage to remorse, / That no compunctious visitings of nature/ Shake my fell purpose nor keep peace
between/ The effect and it”
-King of Scotland at the beginning of the play
-Is not “of woman born”
-Escapes the murderers (and King James I of England and Scotland’s ancestor)
-Has “twenty mortal murders” on his head or crown.
-Must have light continuously near
-Orders the soldiers to hack down tree limbs from Birnam Wood as a disguise
Define a paradox. Find 5 examples of paradoxes in our play.
List the original three prophecies the witches give to Macbeth. To Banquo.
Recreate the prophecy chart below:
Apparition
First Prophecy
-on your own paperSecond Prophecy
-on your own paperThird Prophecy
-on your own paper-
Prophecy
-on your own paper-on your own paper-on your own paper-
Translation
-on your own paper-on your own paper-on your own paper-
How it comes true
-on your own paper-on your own paper-on your own paper-