Starter quiz
- In Act 1, Scene 7 of 'Macbeth', Macbeth has a soliloquy. What could be argued is its purpose?
- To give Lady Macbeth time to kill King Duncan off stage.
- To reveal the plot to commit regicide to the audience: Macbeth goes through it.
- To reveal the depths of Macbeth's hesitancy. ✓
- To give King Duncan time to go to sleep so Macbeth can kill him.
- To reveal Macbeth's feelings towards Lady Macbeth.
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- In Act 1, Scene 7 of 'Macbeth', why is Lady Macbeth initially angry with Macbeth?
- He's come up with his own plan for killing Duncan, rather than adhering to hers.
- He didn't tell her he had been promoted to the Thane of Cawdor.
- He didn't tell her that King Duncan was staying at their home for the night.
- He accuses her of being drunk when she came up with the plan for killing Duncan.
- He tells her he doesn't want to continue plotting against Duncan. ✓
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- What information does a single paragraph outline contain that can support extended writing?
- Bullet points of all the evidence you will use in an essay.
- A topic sentence written in full. ✓
- A chronological list of all your topic sentences in note form.
- Bullets points of the supporting evidence for your topic sentence. ✓
- A summary sentence written in full. ✓
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- 'Macbeth' is a story about regicide. For Shakespeare's Jacobean audience, why was regicide one of the most serious crimes you could commit?
- God selected the monarch. Thus, to challenge the monarch was to challenge God. ✓
- James I made a law decreeing that it was the most serious crime.
- Jacobeans adhered to a strict hierarchy with the monarch at the top. ✓
- Monarchs were thought to have supernatural powers.
- Monarchs were compassionate to their subjects: killing them was deemed cruel.
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- In 'Macbeth', Shakespeare uses Act 1 to show that Lady Macbeth knows Macbeth very well. Which lines of dialogue best show this intimacy?
- 'Hie thee hither'
- 'art not without ambition' ✓
- 'too full o' the milk of human kindness' ✓
- 'Great Glamis! worthy Cawdor!'
- 'dearest partner of greatness'
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- When Lady Macbeth first sees Macbeth in Act 1, she greets him with, 'Great Glamis! worthy Cawdor! Greater than both by the all-hail hereafter!' What are valid inferences about this greeting?
- Lady Macbeth knows Duncan is already dead, and greets her husband accordingly.
- Lady Macbeth is most pleased about his being promoted to Thane of Cawdor.
- Lady Macbeth is already manipulating her husband by targeting his ambition. ✓
- Lady Macbeth anticipates Macbeth's ascension to the throne. ✓
- Lady Macbeth is proud of his achievement in battle and hails his bravery.
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Exit quiz
- In Act 1, Scene 7 of 'Macbeth', how could Lady Macbeth's dialogue be characterised?
- ruthlessly rhetoric
- ruthlessly emotional
- ruthlessly blackmail
- ruthlessly emasculating ✓
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- What could characterise Lady Macbeth's change from Act 1, Scene 5 of 'Macbeth' to Act 1, Scene 7?
- increasingly goads
- increasingly flattering
- increasingly violent ✓
- increasingly desperate ✓
- increasingly blackmail
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- In 'Macbeth', Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth, 'When you durst do it [regicide], then you were a ______'.
- 'man' ✓
- Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth, '[I] 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 its boneless gums and ______ its brains out.'
- 'dash'd' ✓
- Which quotation is the strongest example of the emotional blackmail Lady Macbeth uses to suggest she doubts Macbeth's constancy in Act 1 of 'Macbeth'?
- 'When you durst do it, then you were a man.'
- 'Leave all the rest to me.'
- 'Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself?' ✓
- 'do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness'
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- Starting at the beginning, place Act 1, Scene 7 of 'Macbeth' in the correct order.
- 1⇔Macbeth's soliloquy, in which he determines he doesn't want to kill King Duncan.
- 2⇔Lady Macbeth focuses on emasculating Macbeth.
- 3⇔Lady Macbeth reveals her own violent capabilities, and her constancy to Macbeth.
- 4⇔Lady Macbeth lays forth exactly how they will kill King Duncan.
- 5⇔Macbeth resolves that he will commit regicide.
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Key learning points
- Lady Macbeth seems to become more desperate for power throughout Act 1
- Lady Macbeth's desperation could be interpreted as what leads to her manipulating her husband
- Lady Macbeth's language appears to get more aggressive and violent in Act 1, Scene 7
- Lady Macbeth uses persuasive rhetoric in Act 1, Scene 7
Common misconception
Lady Macbeth's presentation is the same in both Act 1, Scene 5 and Scene 7.
There is an increase in urgency, violence and strategy in Act 1, Scene 7.
Keywords
Rhetoric - If you are skilled in the art of rhetoric, it means you speak persuasively and eloquently.
Desperation - Desperation is a state of being in distress or despair. Being in this state can make you act impulsively.
Emasculate - If you emasculate someone, you deprive them of their masculine role or identity.
Ruthless - If you are ruthless, you act without mercy.
Imagery - Imagery is language that creates a vivid mental image.
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