Macbeth Act I Review

Which literary device are being used here: “Look like th’ innocent flower, but be the serpant under ‘t.”

QUOTE ID: “…Come you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe, top-full / of direst cruelty…”

What does blood NOT symbolize in Macbeth?

QUOTE ID: “Fair is foul, and foul is fair”

In scene ii the captain says Macbeth “well deserves” what name?

What is the SETTING of the play?

What literary device is shown in “Come, thick night, / And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell.”?

QUOTE ID: “Yet do I fear thy nature; / It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way”

In Act I, scene i, what mood is established?

QUOTE ID: 9. “But ‘tis strange: / And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths, / Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s / In deepest consequence”

Which of the following is NOT a theme we have seen?

As Act I, scene iii, concludes, Macbeth seems resigned to think about murder he may have to commit. Whose murder is Macbeth thinking about?

QUOTE ID: “There’s no art / to find the mind’s construction in the face: / He was a gentleman on whom I built / An absolute trust”

QUOTE ID: “Stars, hide your fires; / Let not light see my black and deep desires”

QUOTE ID: “I have given suck, and know / how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me. / I would, while it was smiling in my face, [...] dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you / Have done to this.”

How has Lady Macbeth been characterized so far?

QUOTE ID: “So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”