3 Reasons Macbeth Gives For Not Wanting To Kill Duncan

Question: 1. What atmosphere is established in Scene 1?

Answer: A salty wind, damp, steam mixed with fog

Question: 2. How does Banquo describe the Witches when he first sees them upon the heath?

Answer: He describes them as foreign

Question: 3. Macbeth is reported to be a valiant soldier in Act I. The line, “Till he unseamed him from the nave to

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Question: th’chops And fixed his head upon our battlements”, paints a different Macbeth. What can you infer from that

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Question: Line?

Answer: That Macbeth is not a good person

Question: 4. In Scene 1 the Witches say, “Foul is fair and fair is foul.” Which characters do you consider fair or foul?

Answer: Duncan is fair, Macbeth and Macduff are foul

Question: 5. Why do you think Shakespeare opened Scene 3 with the Witches discussing an evil deed they have

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Question: Committed?

Answer: To “set the scene”

Question: 6. What prophesies do the Witches make for Macbeth and Banquo?

Answer: Macbeth - Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, King hereafter . Banquo - “Lesser than Macbeth, but greater”, “not so happy, yet much happier”; “thou shalt get kings though thou be none”.

Question: 7. What does Lady Macbeth mean when she says of Macbeth, “Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o’ the

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