Help with Macbeth Act 1
Choose the theme that the quote best develops.
‘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,
Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.’
a. Faith
b. Femininity and Beauty
c. Man’s relationship with God
d. What is true love?
e. Femininity and Strength
Choose the theme that the quote best develops.
‘I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.’
a. Respecting your elders
b. Ambition and Masculinity
c. The price of peace
d. Marriage, Fidelity, and Commitment
e. Poverty and Extravagance
Choose the theme that the quote best develops.
‘If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well
It were done quickly; if the assassination
Could tramme up the consequence, and catch
With his surcease success; that but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all here . . .
. . . I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’er-leaps itself
And falls on the other.’
a. Individual versus Society
b. Faith
c. The danger of ambition
d. Astrology
e. Race and Identity
Choose the theme that the quote best develops.
‘Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under’t.’
a. Infidelity
b. The traits of a good and decent king
c. Enjoyment versus Health
d. Appearance versus Reality
e. Motherhood
Choose the theme that the quote best develops.
Yet I do fear thy nature;
It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way; thou wouldst be great,
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it.’
a. The price of peace
b. Man’s relationship with God
c. The inherent value of life
d. Violence and Peace
e. The dark side of ambition
Choose the theme that the quote best develops.
‘The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step.
On which I must fall down, or else o’er-leap,
For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires!
Let not light see my black and deep desires’
a. True love
b. Respecting your elders
c. The ends justify the means
d. Ambition and Guilt
e. The finality of death
Choose the theme that the quote best develops.
‘And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths’
a. The traits of a good and decent king
b. Femininity and Strength
c. The danger of knowledge
d. Race and Identity
e. Respecting your elders
Choose the theme that the quote best develops.
‘So foul and fair a day I have not seen.’
a. Race and Identity
b. Femininity and Strength
c. Enjoyment versus Health
d. Violence and Peace
e. Man’s relationship with God
Choose the theme that the quote best develops.
For brave Macbeth, – well he deserves that name, –
Disdaining fortune, with his brandish’d steel,
Which smok’d with bloody execution,
Like valour’s minion carv’d out his passage
Till he fac’d the slave.’
a. The qualities of a good warrior and leader
b. Man versus Nature
c. Free Will
d. Gluttony
e. Man’s relationship with God
Choose the theme that the quote best develops.
‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair’
a. What is true love?
b. Masculinity
c. Duty and Loyalty
d. Appearance versus Reality
e. The value of war
