You are on page 1of 23

Macbeth: Overview

 
Introductio Shakespeare's play, "Macbeth," is the bloodiest and most
n gruesome of all his plays. the play has various, deeper,
messages and conundrums that need hard work, but it is a
rewarding play.
 
Table of This following are the handouts, readings and projects for
Contents Macbeth.
 
Handout Page
Shakespearean Theater C-2
Preview Questions C-3
Macbeth Act I, sc 1,2,3 C-4
Macbeth Act I, sc 4,5 C-7
Macbeth Act I, sc 6,7 C-9
Macbeth Act I, overall C-10
Macbeth Act II, sc 1,2 C-11
Macbeth Act II, sc 3,4 C-14
Macbeth Act II, overall C-16
Macbeth Act III, sc 1,2 C-17
Macbeth Act III, sc 3,4, C-19
Macbeth Act III, sc 5,6 C-21
Macbeth Act III overall C-22
Macbeth Act IV, 1,2,3 C-23
Macbeth Act IV, overall C-26
Macbeth Act V C-27
General Macbeth C-30
Out, Out C-31
Macbeth Exam C-33
Macbeth Feedback C-37
 
Shakespearean Theater
 
Introductio This brief section on Shakespeare and the theater does not
n tell you anything you shouldn't know already, however it is
important to review it.Read pages 108-111 in DWM and then
answer the questions
Questions Answer the following questions fully.
1. What are the dates when Shakespeare wrote is "best"
work?
 
Look at the Kings and Queens of England chart on Page 1. Who were the
rulers during Shakespeare's peak?
Who was the ruler during Macbeth?
2. Describe (or draw and label) the Globe theater?
3. Who were Groundlings? Where did they sit?
4. What scenery did the theater have? How did the actors compensate?
5. (Thought) Why might there be no girls on stage?
 6. What is a "Soliloquy"? An "Aside"?
7. Where are James I roots? Do you believe Shakespeare
would have used this in the play?
8. How is "Macbeth" a play based on the Greeks?
 
Preview Questions
 
Introductio The following questions are general, life based questions and
n don't require reading the play. In a small group, write a one
page response to each of these questions.
Thought Write a thoughtful response to each of these questions.
1. How does Shakespeare insure the attention of the
audience?
Questions  
 2. Complete the quote "Fair is foul__________"
1. Do you
 3. Why are witches female?
feel that
you are fated to do certain things?
2. Should a wife be supportive of a husband, or should she be more
demanding?
3. If the weather is bad, does your mood change?
4. What evil or sinful things do you suppose your ancestors have done?
 Macbeth: Act I: 1,2,3
 
Introductio As you read the play "Macbeth" (Page 113 in DWM), please
n do these questions.
Act I, scene Answer the following questions fully.
1
Ac t I, scene Answer the following questions fully.
2 1. Who led the rebels? Who beat them? How?
2. What title is given Macbeth?
3. What are the first words of the King? How do they set the
tone for the play?
Act I, scene Answer the following questions fully.
3 1. For their spells, do the witches use earthly things or
ethereal things?
 

Why is that important?


Banquo says they are women with beards. What mythological figure was a
woman with a beard? How are these witches "bubbles of the earth."
2. According to Macbeth, what sort of day is this?Does this show the world
to be in order, or out of order?
3. What is predicted for Macbeth
 
For Banquo? How could Banquo be lesser than Macbeth, but greater?
Do they believe the witches? Why are they so calm when they speak to the
witches?
4. What news does Ross bring Macbeth?
Why does that surprise him? What does he start thinking about?
 
5. Complete this long quote: "To win us to our
harm_________________________
______________________________________________________
__
_____________________consequence."
 
What does it mean? Who are the instruments of harm?
What are the honest trifles that will win Macbeth? Could he become king
without doing anything?

 
6. Look at lines 130-142.
  What is
Macbeth
worried about?
What thought does Macbeth have that shakes him so?
Why doesn't he tell Banquo?
How does his silence betray his thoughts and leanings?
At the end of the scene, what has Macbeth decided to do?
Macbeth: Act I: sc 4,5
Introductio As you read the play "Macbeth" (Page 121 in DWM), please
n do these questions.
Act I, scene Answer the following questions fully.
4  
1. What happenned to old Cawdor?
 
Did he die well or poorly? Quote a line to support your answer.
What error did the king make with old Cawdor?
Why is that a fatal error for a king to make?
2. According to Macbeth, why does he support the king?

Is he lying right now? Explain.


3. Who does the King name as his second in command?
 
According to his soliloquoy, what is Macbeth thinking?
Is he still questioning the witches? Explain.
Explain lines 49-50.
Act I, scene Answer the following questions fully.
5  1. What is the general sense of the letter?
 
What does Lady Mac mean when she says that he is "too full of the milk of
human kindness"? Why doesn't she question the existance of these
witches? What is she going to do for Macbeth?
2. What message does the messenger bring?
 
Why is Lady Macbeth happy about this? Why does she want darkness?
Why does she want to be "un-sexed"?
 
What other literary characters have we tripped across want to be similarly
"un-sexed." Are there some things that only men can do? (besides pee out a
campfire) Explain.
3. What does Lady Macbeth tell Mac to look like (Quote)
 
What has she decided to do? Has he decided to do the same thing? Explain,
with a quote.
Macbeth: Act I: sc 6,7
 
Introductio As you read the play "Macbeth" (Page 125 in DWM), please
n do these questions.
Act I, scene Answer the following questions fully.
6  1. How does the king like Macbeth's castle?
 
Is he making an error here? Explain. Where has this been foreshadowed?

2. Who isn't there to greet the king?


 
Why do you suppose he isn't there?

Act I, scene 7
Answer the following questions fully.
1. What is Macbeth thinking of doing?
What is he afraid of?
What are two reasons why he should not do what he is thinking?
At the end of his speech, is he going to do it?
Why is it important that he is alone?

2. What does Lady Macbeth accuse him of being?


Why? 
How does he answer her? (quote) If he kills the king, is he answering the
call or isn't he?
3. If Lady Macbeth had this chance, what would
she do?  Why does Macbeth
later tell her to bring
forth "men children only."
What weakness does Macbeth have?
Why might it be so easy for Lady Macbeth to urge Macbeth on
Who is more evil: Lady Macbeth or Macbeth? Explain.
 
 
Macbeth: Act I: Overall
 
Introductio Act I is vitally important in establishing and developing the
n themes in this play. The rest of the acts pale in importance
next to it.
 
Interpretin These questions can be found on page 129. Answer them
g fully. 
Interpreting: 7, 9, 10
Thought Answer the following questions fully.
Questions  1. So far, in this play, what are the differences between men
and women?
 2. If Macbeth were more dominant with his wife, would the
ending of the play change?
 3. Do you believe the Macbeth's have a strong marriage or a
weak one?
What qualities make up a strong marriage?
 4. Look back at all the references to Heaven in this first act.
Describe the god that looks down on them?
 
Macbeth: Act II, scenes 1,2
Introductio As you read the play "Macbeth" (Page 130 in DWM), please
n do these questions.
Act II, scene Answer the following questions fully.
1 1. According to Banquo, what is the night like?
Why is nature so upset? 
2. What does Banquo want to talk to Macbeth about? 
Why doesn't Macbeth want to talk?
How should Banquo take this?
Is Macbeth a good assassin? Explain.
3. What does Macbeth see floating in front of him?
What is all over it? What is it urging him to do?
4 Complete the quote: "Words to the heat of deeds Suppose
_____________" Explain. you staged
this play
without a real knife in front of Macbeth. what would that say about the
witches? About macbeths ambition?
If there isn't a knife, is this play still about fate? Explain.
 
Act II, Answer the followign questions fully.
scene 2 1. What has give Lady Macbeth fire?
Where have we seen this "fire" before (movie)
Why couldn't Lady Macbeth kill Duncan?
What is the psychological (deeper) truth under her statement?
2. Complete the phrase "The attempt and not the
deed________________" Explain it.
Where have we seen a similar idea in Eliot?
Would Beowulf ever say such a thing?
How Is Macbeth better then Beowulf?
2. What happenned when he stabbed Duncan?
Why is nature in an uproar?
As a director, why must the actors say these lines?
3. What word couldn't he say? What will he be able to do no
more?
 How are Lady and Macbeth acting after the murder? What does this say
about them? What did Macbeth bring from the room? Why did he do that?
4. Why can't they get their hands clean?

Symbolically, what is that showing? Why does the knocking scare him?
 
 
Macbeth: Act II, scenes 3,4
 
Introductio As you read the play "Macbeth" (Page 134 in DWM), please
n do these questions. The Porter's speech has been edited by
dunderheads and puritan numbskulls. The correct edition
has been photocopied and included.
Act II, scene Answer the following questions fully.
3  1. Where does the Porter imagine he is working?
What sort of condition is the Porter in
How is the Porter partially right?
What three things does drinking provoke?
Why do you need a humourous touch in this play?
Who would you rather have Steven Wright play this role or Bill Murray?
Explain.
 
2. Who discovers the body of the king?
Why is it important that he is introduced now?
What did Lenox see in the night?
3. How do Malcolm and Donalbain deal with the news? What does
the quote
"daggers in men's smiles" mean? How does that echo Lady Macbeth
comments earlier? How does that reflect nature?
5. What
4. What does
does Lady
Macbeth do to do?
Macbeth the guards? Why
  Why is that
a bad move
from a murderer's standpoint? Why would Macbeth want to do that?
Act II, Answer the following questions fully.
scene 4 1. According to the old man, what bizarre things have gone
on in the might?
How do those events directly paralell the death of the king?
2. Who is going to be crowned king?  Who is
being
blamed for regicide?
3. Where is MacDuff going? Why is he
going there
and not to Scone?
 
Macbeth Act II: Overview
Introductio Act II further develops the characters and the conflicts
n presented in Act I, along with some curious additions
 Interpretin The following questions can be found on page 141.
g  Interpreting: 8, 10, 11, 13
 Thought Answer the following questions fully.
Questions  1. If Macbeth is the hero, draw his hero path up till now?
 What is he being trained for?
 What skills are being developed?
 2. Why was the Porter's speech editedin your (and many
other) editions of the text?
  3. How is the marriage of Macbeth and his wife strong?
 
  Macbeth: Act III, scenes 1,2
Introductio As you read the play "Macbeth" (Page 142 in DWM), please
n do these questions.
 
Act III, Answer the following questions fully.
scene 1
 1. Does Banquo suspect Macbeth?
 
What does Banquo similiarly hope for? Where is Banquo going? Why?
 2. Complete the quote: "To be thus is nothing,
but________________" ; Explain.
Why does he now fear Banquo? Who does he think he has killed Duncan
for? How much time to you guess has passed between this scene and the
Act II? Why? How is Macbeth different? Would Shakespeare agree with
the adage: "Power corrupts."
3. Why did Macbeth hire the two men? Who must
they kill?
Act III, Answer the following questions fully.
scene 2  1. What happens to Lady Macbeth and husband at night?
Why?
What do they have to do to their faces (not literally) How else has
Macbeth's relationship to his wife changed? Prove this with a quote.
Describe the set of the play for this scene. What props and lighting would
you have for the best possible effect? 
Macbeth Act III, scenes 3,4
 
Introductio As you read the play "Macbeth" (Page 147 in DWM), please
n do these questions.
Act III, Answer the following questions fully.
scene 3  1. How many murderers are now present to kill Banquo?
How have they lost "The best half oftheir affair." Who is the third
murderer? Why does Shakespeare include this scene and not have this
5. Who wasn't
murder happenatof
the feast? Why not?
stage?
Act III, Answer the
scene 4 following questions fully.
 1. Who appears, uninvited, to Macbeth's dinner What does
  he have on
6. Where
4. What is
Once again,Macbeth going?
how Macbeth
does Lady How does
Macbeth that show the change
get histoattention and his face?
2. does Lady ask her husband do?
in the
insult marriage? How is his
3. WhoMac?
next Does it work?
enters, invited Using the Macbeth's
but unexpected? How definition,
does
what qualities
Macbeth react?ofHow
a man does
does LadyMacbeth
Macbethlack? Do for
cover we this?
still presence a
consider
 What those
is the qualities
"painting ofworthy?
his fear." bad idea?
  What
compliment
does
Macbeth give him?
Macbeth Act III: scenes 5,6
 
Introductio As you read the play "Macbeth" (Page 142 in DWM), please
n do these questions.
Act III, Answer the following question fully.
scene 5  1. Though noone has been able to prove this, this scene is
considered spurious. How is Hecate different from
Shakespeare's other witches?
 Act III. Answer the following questions fully.
scene 6  1. Who does Lennox think killed Duncan? Is he serious or
not? What words establish the tone?
2. This scene exists mostly so it can convey information to the
Macbeth:
viewer. WhatAct III: Overview
information is conveyed?
  
Introductio Act III contains most of the importan events in the story and
n ends the first part of the play. Acts IV and V are the
endgame of the play.
 Questions Answer the following sets of questions fully. They are on
page 156.
 Interpretation: 9, 10, 11, 12
 Viewpoint
 
 Macbeth: Act IV, scenes 1, 2, 3
 Introductio As you read the play "Macbeth" (Page 157 in DWM), please
n do these questions.
 Act IV, Answer the following questions fully.
scene 1  1. When Macbeth asks "what is it you do?", how do the
witches answer him? Why might that answer have more
importance than it appears?

 
 
Who was the first namer?How are names important to this play?
 
2. What are the three predictions for Macbeth?
What makes each prediction?How are the speakers important?
 3. What do the witches show him about Banquo?
 
Why is that disheartening?What is Banquo's connection to James I?
 
4. Complete the Quote: "The firstlings of my heart shall be
____________________________"
Explain. How is this a change for him What did he say that was different
from this? (Please Quote) Is Macbeth getting more or less human? What
does he plan on doing?
 
Act IV, Answer the following questions fully.
scene 2 1. Why does Lady MacDuff curse her husband?
 
How do "our fears make us traitors."How is MacDuff different from the
Wren? Explain the line "father'd he is, and yet he's fatherless."
2. Describe the son?
Why is he drawn this way? Is he witty? How would the audience feel
about Macbeth after this scene? What are the sons last lines Why must he
say them?
Act IV, Answer the following questions fully.
scene 3 1. What is ironic about MacDuff's first speech?
Who is energized? Who is depressed?
What are 2. Does Malcolm want to be king?
the three
faults Malcolm lists off? Complete the quote: "Your wives, your daughters,
your matrons and your maids________________________"
Does he really have these faults?This is, at the beginning, a light scene.
Why would Shakespeare put this light scene right after a violent murder?
3. Describe the king of England?
Why does he have these healing powers (Think question) How is he
different from Macbeth?
 4. What state is Scotland in?
 Where are we on the hero path? Why does he lie about MacDuff's
children?
5. How does MacDuff react to the news?
 Why is it important that he can't speak initially? What does Malcolm beg
him to act like? How does MacDuff answer him? How does MacDuff's
definition of a "man" differ from Malcolm's? Which one would be closer to
Lady MacBeth's definition? Which definition is better?
 
Macbeth: Act IV: Overall
 Introductio Act IV has very little going on, in terms of plot, but a great
n deal in terms of development, particularly interms of
gender and nature.
 Interpreting Answer the following questions fully. They can be found on
page 173 in DWM.
 Interpreting: 5, 6, 9
 Thought Answer the following questions fully.
Questions  1. Draw a hero path for MacDuff?
What is his call? When did the call first come to him? What is the strange
world? What has Macbeth become?
 2. How are the witches feminine spirits?
  3. How does Lady MacDuff differ from Lady Macbeth?
Which one is a stronger woman?
 
Macbeth: Act V
 Introductio Act V is the final act in the play, where all the elements get
n drawn together. Although it is a collection of breif scenes,
they are all meant to run together.
 The last act begins on page 175.
 Act V Answer the following questions fully.
 1. According to the Gentlewoman, what does Lady
Macbeth do?
 
What does she do to her hands? Why? What does she speak of?
Who does she appear to be speaking to? What could you interpret from her
words?
2. How has Macbeth changed?
Where did we see this change begin? What will Macbeth's old age be like?
 3. What is wrong with Lady Macbeth according to the Dr.
What advice does he give? What does Macbeth want to happen?
How is Macbeth's little speech and extension of the washing metaphor?
 

4. What Instruction does Malcolm give?


 How does that prove one of the witches predictions? In the symbolic
reading, how are the trees important?
5. How does Macbeth plan on repelling the troops?
What does Macbeth hear? How does he react?
6. Complete the quote :"Life's but a walking
shadow_________________
______________________"
What does it mean? How has Macbeth's mood been swinging wildly?
Is his speech Existentialist?
 7. Who does Macbeth fight with first?
 How does naming become important again? How is Young Siward
doomed?
8. Does Macbeth want to fight MacDuff?
Explain How was MacDuff born? What sort of surrender does MacDuff
offer?
How is Macbeth's response strong?
   9. How did Young Siward die, according to Rosse?
Why does that hearten the King? How is that 'Manliness" similar to
Macbeth's or MacDuff's?
10. Who will be King?
Why is "time free" now? What plot problem does that present?
Why do they need to bring Macbeth's head back on stage?
 
General Macbeth
Introductio Mary McCarthy was an important writer and critic from the
n 1950's. This essay was a transcribed from a lecture she gave
at Smith College on the play, and crystallizes an unusual and
perceptive view of the work.
Please read the essay, then answer the following questions.
 Questions Answer the following questions fully.
1. How is Macbeth's tragic flaw his lack of imagination?
2. Why is McCarthy so sure Macbeth is Lady Mac's second
husband?
 3. How do Macbeth's endearments come off as trite?
 4. How does Lady Macbeth have imagination? How does it
haunt her?
 5. What is Macbeth's main concern throughout the play?
 6. How is Lady Mac a monster?
 How is it that Macbeth is not?
 7. How does Macbeth's isolation begin?
 8. How does Macbeth act like an executive or a politician?
 9. What is her opinion about Macbeth's soliloquoy's?
 Explain.
 10. What is poetry turned to an ulterior motive?
 11. How is this play "natural"?
 12. Who is the contemporary Macbeth
 Describe him
  Out, Out...
 Introductio Robert Frost wrote this poem about a tragic death that he
n read about in Vermont. The play "Macbeth" is only mention
in the title, yet it runs through this entire poem.
 Questions Answer the following questions fully.
 1. What is the plot of this poem?
 2. The poem begins with personification (or beastifcation).
What is it?
What is the effect that creates?
 3. What does the phrase "And nothing happenned." imply?
After you have finished the poem, how does that phrase have a different
effect?
4. How does Frost describe the hand getting cut off?
What is
Frost's tone? How does the sentence structure accentuate that tone?
5. Define the word "ether"
 6. How does the boy die?
Why the phrase "No more to build on there."
7. What does his family do, now that the boy is dead?
 
Though t Answer the following questions fully.
Question  
1. What does this poem have to do with 'Macbeth"
2. Why does Frost begin with a lyrical, natural description?
3. How does Frost use nature here?
 How is that use different from Shakespeare's?
Macbeth: Individual Exam
Introductio The following exam is designed to test both your knowledge
n of the play and your ability to understand the concepts the
play deals with.
Work quickly and thoroughly
Definitions Define and give examples of the following words.
 1. Personification
 2. Irony
 3. Foreshadowing
 4. Existentialist
 5. Groundling
 6. Soliloquy
 7. Aside
Character Pick the best possible answer. One character and one clue
matching are not used.
 d__MacDuff a. Former King
b__Macbeth b. Present King
__Lady Macbeth c. Far off Future King
e__The Porter d. Not of Woman born
f__Young Siward e. Worked in "hell"
i__Lady Macduff f. Macbeth killed him in battle
c__Fleance g. Next King
g__Malcolm h. Fathered a line of King
h__Banquo i. Gave birth
a__Duncan j. Witch??
Object Identify
Identify the following objects. How were they important to the play?
 
Example:
Bird: Brought message to King of China
1. Dagger 2. Severed head 3. Birnam Wood 4. Dunsinane 5. Cawdor
6. Line of Kings 7. A potent brew 8. Horses eating each other 9. A third
murderer 10. a bloody ghost

Quote Identify
Identify the following quotes fully. Who said them and why are they
significant?
Example:
"And to the Republic, for which it stands....": Homer when he says the
pledge of allegiance to his mother.
 
1. "...a poor player that struts and frets his hour on stage and
 
thenis heard no more."  
 2. "A deed without a name."
4. "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this
 3. "I will answer it like a man, but first I must feel it like a
way comes."
man."
 5. "Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts. Unsex me
here and fill me top to toe with direst cruelty."
6. "If it were done, when it was done, then it were well it
were done quickly."
7. "Be innocent ofthe knowledge, dearest chuck."
8. "Lechery sir, it proviokes and it unprovokes."
 
9."Your wives, your daughters,your matrons and your maids
could not fill up the cisterns of my lust."
10. "Yet I do fear thy nature. It is too full of the milk of
human kindness."
11. "Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown and put a
barren scepter in my grasp."
12. "Thou hast it now. King, Cawdor, Glamis, all as the wierd
sisters prmised and I fear thou played most foully for it."
13. "There are daggers in men's smiles."
14. "Your face, my thane, is as a book wheremen may read
strange matters."
15. "They have murdered me, mother."
 
Close Read Read the following passage from the play and answer the
questions fully.
 
1. What similes or metaphors does Lady
Macbeth use in this speech? How are they
important?
 
 
 
2. What other literary devices does Lady
Macbeth use? How are they effective? ( I see
three)
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. From reading this speech, How would Lady
Macbeth define the word "Man."
 
 
4. How would Lady Macbeth define the term
"woman."
 
 
5. According to his brief response, how would
Macbeth define what a man is?
 
 
6. What other literary characters would align
themselves with Macbeth?
 
 
 
 
With his wife?
 
 
 
Macbeth: Feedback
 
Introductio Feedback gives you the opportunity to comment on the
n work you have just studied and how you studied it. Your
answers will affect how I teach Macbeth in the future.
 
The Work Answer the following questions by marking a number
between 1- 10. 10 means you are extremely happy, while 1
means you are heavily bummed.
 
• How well did you enjoy studying the play? ___
 
• Compared to other works you have studies, how
hard was "Macbeth"? ___
 
• How important do you feel this play is to the Hero
unit? ___
 
The unit Answer the following questions by marking a number
between 1- 10. 10 means you are extremely happy, while 1
means you are heavily bummed.
 
• How hard were the homeworks? ___
 
• How hard were the quizzes? ___
 
• How hard was the other work? ___
Continued on next page
 
, Continued
 
Open Answer these questions with a short phrase or sentence.
ended  
Questions • Did you use any other tools (video, Cliff notes, oral tapes)
to help you understand this play?
 
• What could I do tomake this play more interesting or
accessible for students?
 
• Did you do any of the challenges that relate to this play?
 
• Did you write any essays that relate to this play?
 
• What was your grade on the exam?
 
Other Do you have other thoughts or concerns about the class or
Thoughts the work?
If so, please put them right here.
 
Guess Paper – 2010
Class – XII
Subject –English Paper - 2
Time – 2½ Hours.
Full Marks – 100.
Answer of Question 1 is compulsory from Section A and three questions from
Section B. In
Section B choose questions from at least two text books.
Section – A
Question – 1. Choose ANY TWO passages and answer the questions briefly : -
[25]
(a)Duncan : My plenteous joy, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow, Sons, kinsmen, thanes, And you whose places are
the nearest, know,
……………….. which honour must Not unaccompanied invest only,
But sings of nobleness, like
stars shall shine
On all deservers.
(i)
Where is the speaker ? Who else are present with him ?
(ii)
Which four groups of people does Duncan address ?
(iii)
What does Duncan proclaim ? Give two examples.
(iv)
What does Duncan say to Macbeth after this extract ? How does the declaration
prove
fatal for Duncan.
(b) Macbeth :So is he mine; and in such bloody distance
That every minute of his being thrusts
Against my near’st of life, and thought I could
With bare-fac’d power sweep him
from my sight
And bid my will avouch it, Yet I must not.
(i)
What has the listerner said for Macbeth to start his speech with ‘so’?
(ii)
Identify ‘he’ and state the reason of Macbeth’s disquiet state of mind because of
him.
(iii)
Why will Macbeth not use his bare face’d power ? What must he himself, do after
his
enemy’s fall ?
(iv)
How has Macbeth incited his listener against their common enemy?
(c) Lady Macbeth : Out damned spot I Out say one, two then ‘til time do’t. Hell is
murky my lord, fie a
soldier and afearel. What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our
power to account. Yet
who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him.
Doctor : Do you mark that ?
Lady M : The thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now?
(i)
In which mental condition does lady Macbeth speak in the scene? While past
incidents
are referred to in the following passage?
(ii)
Why does Lady M say there is no need to fear why do you think she is rubbing her
hand?
(iii)
Who is the old man and who is the thane of Fife in reality. What has happened to
them?
(iv)
How does Macbeth react to hear Lady Macbeth’s death soon after this extract?
Section – B.
Macbeth (Shakespeare) [25 Marks]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---
www.icseguess.com
Other Educational Portals
www.cbseguess.com | www.ignouguess.com | www.dulife.com |
www.magicsense.com

http://www.icseguess.com/
Question – 2. In the beginning Lady Macbeth plays a pivotal role in guiding the
actions of Macbeth but at
the end she degenerates into a mental wreek. Justify the statement making a
comparature study of her
character before and after the murder of Duncan.
Question – 3. How does the scene between Lady Macduff and her son touch the
reader’s heart? Compare
and contrast Lady Macbeth and Lady Macduff.
Timeless Short Stories
(Compiled by T. W. Phillips)
Question – 4. “The whole misery of the world seemed to be weighing all about and
above me. And yet the
suffering one seemed to laugh at all”. Howfar is this statement true about Javni and
the auther.
Question – 5. Examine the responses of the native residents of Miguel Street to the
arrival of the Portugese
Couple. Toni and Angela and their strange relationship in V.S. Naipaul’s short
story ‘Love Love Love
Alone’.
Question – 6. How successfully did the writer bring out the humour in the story
leaves in Spring Time.
ISC Poetry (W.R. Gardens)
Question – 7. How did the poet, Ruskin Bond meet each one of the friends
mentioned in the poem, The
Story of Lost Friends? What were his feelings on parting with each of them?
Question – 8. “Each in his narrow cell for ever laid The rude forefathers of the
hamlet sleep”.
(i)
What are Gray’s reflections on the lives of the simple village people buried in the
country
Churchyard?
(ii)
Account briefly for the poems’ universal appeal.
Question – 9. Give a critical appreciation of the poem ‘Hotnoon in Malabar’.
Paper By : Mr. M.P.Keshri
Email Id:- mpkeshari@yahoo.com
Telephone No. 09434150289
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---
www.icseguess.com
Other E

You might also like