Macbeth MVQs

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Act 1 Scene 1 - Witches chant
" fair is foul and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air"
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Act 1 Scene 2 - describing macbeth, heroic
" till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps, and fix'd his head upon our battlements"
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Act 1 Scene 3 - Macbeth meets the witches, destiny, prophecy
" so foul and fair a day i have not seen"
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Act 1 Scene 4 - aside, Macbeth, duplicity, harmatia
" [aside] the prince of cumberland! that is a step on which i must fall down or else o'erlap"
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Act 1 Scene 5 - lady Macbeth, soliloquy, feminism
"come, you spirits that mortal thoughts, unsex me here"
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Act 1 Scene 6 - Duncan, Dramatic irony, regicide
" conduct me to mine host: we love him highly"
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Act 1 Scene 7 - Macbeth, soliloquy, internal conflict about duncan
" his virtues will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against the deep damnation of his taking-off"
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Act 2 Scene 1 - macbeth, regicide
" hear it not duncan; for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or hell"
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Act 2 Scene 2 - macbeth, regret and guilt, murder
" will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?"
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Act 2 Scene 3 - Donaldbain, duplicity, suspicion
" there's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood, the nearer blood"
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Act 2 Scene 4 - ross, darkness, symbolism
" by the clock, 'tis day, and yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp"
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Act 3 Scene 1 - Macbeth, murderers, deception
" both of you know banquo was your enemy"
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Act 3 Scene 2 - Macbeth, metaphor, poison, confusion
" o, full of scorpions is my mind my wife! thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance leaves"
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Act 3 Scene 3 - third murder, Banquos dead, Fleance flees
" there's but one down; the son is fled"
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Act 3 Scene 4 - Macbeth Banquo's ghost, guilt, delusion
" thoust canst not say i did it: never shake the glory locks at me"
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Act 3 Scene 5 - Hecate, witchcraft
" as strength of their illusion, shall draw him onto his confusion"
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Act 3 Scene 6 - Lennox, Personification, tyrant
" our suffering country under a hand accursed"
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Act 4 Scene 1 - Macbeth, witches, anger, desperation
" What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom"
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Act 4 Scene 2 - innocent, vulnerable
" to do harm is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly"
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Act 4 Scene 3 - Macduff, disbelief, hellish and bird imagery
" all my pretty ones? did you say all? O hell-kite! All? What, all my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop?"
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Act 5 Scene 1 - Lady Mabeth, sleep walking, vulnerable, contrast
" the than of fife had a wife: where is she now?"
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Act 5 Scene 2 - Angus, hyperbole, opposites
" now does he feel his title hang loose about him, like a giants robe upon a dwarfish thief"
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Act 5 Scene 3 - Macbeth, Prophecy, harmatia
"whats the boy malcom? was he not born of woman"
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Act 5 Scene 4 - malcom, Birnam Woods
" let every soldier hew him down a bough and bear't before him"
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Act 5 scene 5 - Soliloquy, mortality, life is meaningless
"Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more"
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Act 5 Scene 5 - Siward, Bravery, climax
" Do we but find the tyrant's power to-night, Let us be beaten, if we cannot fight"
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Act 5 Scene 7 - Macbeth, Killed Young Siward, prophecy
" but swords i smile at, weapons laugh to scorn, Brandish'd by man that's of woman born"
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Act 5 Scene 8 - Macduff, Prophecy, witches struck, cesarean
"Macduff was from his mothers womb untimely ripp'd"
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Card 2

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Act 1 Scene 2 - describing macbeth, heroic

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" till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps, and fix'd his head upon our battlements"

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Act 1 Scene 3 - Macbeth meets the witches, destiny, prophecy

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Card 4

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Act 1 Scene 4 - aside, Macbeth, duplicity, harmatia

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Card 5

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Act 1 Scene 5 - lady Macbeth, soliloquy, feminism

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