2.
In his final speech, Malcolm promises to
bring back peace and to reward all those
2. who helped defeat the tyrant and restore
e Scotland to its rightful line of kings.
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1.1 Macbeth (Act 1, Scene 7, lines 25-26)
3.
1.2 Macduff (Act 4, Scene 3, line 220)
4. 1.3 Lady Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 1, lines 43-44)
1.4 Duncan (Act 1, Scene 4, line 58)
5. 1.5 Banquo (Act 2, Scene 1, lines 26-29)
2.1 You are falling apart and going mad.
You used to be strong and able to control
situations. Your guilt and lack of support
from your husband has made you insecure
and weak.
2.2 You are a good soldier and a loyal friend to
Macbeth. You do not just accept what the
Witches say and you warn Macbeth that
they might be evil. You are amazed by your
own prophecy from the Witches and have a
Ma gut response that you would like it to come
Du true, but are basically too honest to make
not the wrong choice.
aga 2.3. You are tired of trying to keep your power
and have people hate you for your actions.
Te You have just heard of your wife's death but
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1. cannot grieve for her right now because you
1 are too involved in the attack on your castle.
You decide to fight to the finish, despite
: your despair at the way your life has gone,
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because the Witches have told you that
nothing can possibly harm you.
2. The answers to Question 2 here are
suggestions. You know your characters
if your answers show an understanding
of the context (who; what; where; what is
happening, what has just happened, and
what is about to happen) and an awareness
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of what type of person the character is at this
point in the play and why.
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I Images and symbols Page 32
1. Five. The thunder and lightning and the
1 presence of the Three Witches suggest
the conflict between the natural and the
supernatural. The mention of 'hurlyburly'
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suggests the consequences of all the power person in whom 'he placed an absolute
struggles involving the ambition of the
traitors to take over the crown, ignoring their
loyalty to their king. `[F]air is foul, and foul is
fair' is a paradox, indicating that appearance
and reality are two different things: the hero
of this battle may be the enemy in the next.
Macbeth is mentioned in connection with the
Witches so fate versus free will is introduced.
2. Own opinion. You can prefer either one.
They both help us to understand the issues
of guilt, ambition without moral checks and
using power for good or evil, and ultimately
help us to see the results of the decisions
made by Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, and to
fear making such decisions for ourselves.
Blood is mentioned more times than
any other word in the play. It is the ability
to kill with the sword that makes Macbeth
a good soldier but it is taking his king's
blood unlawfully that turns him into an
evil person rather than a hero. It is the
blood on Banquo's hair that horrifies
Macbeth most when he sees his ghost at the
banquet. Macbeth becomes so accustomed
to killing, however, that he does not even
stop at killing children. It is when he realises
that he is 'in blood step'd so far' that he
recognises that he is left friendless and
hated and will only stop this bloody process
when he himself dies. Blood is a thread that
runs through the whole play, making the
audience aware that killing 'in cold blood'
(not in a battle) is self-destructive in the end
and damns your soul forever.
Sleep works the opposite way as a symbol.
It is sleep that suggests innocence and
goodness. If you sleep well, your conscience
is clear and you have no guilt. The theme
of guilt is brought to the fore by Macbeth's
speech about his having 'murdered sleep'.
Duncan is innocently asleep, believing
Macbeth to be his loyal cousin, liegeman
and host, when he is killed by the very
trust'. Macbeth knows he should not kill 1.4
his king but he wants the crown and so goes sisters about becoming king. He is the
ahead. He knows the consequences of turning Thane of Glamis and has now become
to evil but only acknowledges what those the Thane of Cawdor, which are the 'two
consequences mean to him when he realises truths'. The third greeting of the weird
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 that he will never sleep easily again. He has
more nightmares before he kills Duncan
than afterwards because he seeks absolute
power so ruthlessly that he overcomes his guilt
after seeing Banquo's ghost and, although
sleep evades him, he stifles his guilt and carries
on killing. Lady Macbeth, however, does things
the other way around. She cannot kill Duncan
while he is asleep but thinks that it will be
easy to 'wash' the blood off their hands and
their consciences. It is when she sleeps that her
guilt comes out and she sleepwalks restlessly,
voicing her guilt in her sleep.
3. Theme: idea; message; moral; good versus
evil; emerge slowly.
Symbol: image; motif; connotation; blood;
be the serpent; repeat clearly; representation.

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1. 0, J, C, M, B, K, D, F, I, H, N, G, E, L, A
2. B
3. A
4. B
5. D
6.1 D 6;4 A
6.2 E 6.5 B
6.3 F 6.6 C

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