1. Directions: As you work through the notes/questions, you can check your answer!

2. Clean-up answer key

3. Directions: As you work through the notes/questions, you can check your answers!

4. 1. C=Fear that the ATTEMPT to kill (not the actual murder) will ruin them

5. 2. She was ready to bash out her baby’s brains before but now she’s sentimental thinking about her dad.

6. 3. She’ll “gild” or smear the faces of the guards (with Duncan’s blood) to frame them.

7. 4. Blood=guilt/shame

8. 5. Her hands are also red (bloody, guilty), but she isn’t a coward about it

9. 6. Remorseful (He wishes the knocking could/would wake Duncan)

10. 7. Mac and Lady M were just covered in blood; they need time to clean up before returning to stage

11. 8. Dramatic irony We know those terms aren’t apt descriptions of Macbeth!

12. 9. Macduff could have prevented the murder OR caught Macbeth in the act

13. 10. Understatement (litote)

14. 11. Allusion to Greek myth: Gorgons turned people to stone (like Medusa did)

15. 12. Dramatic irony- we know she is not gentle!

16. 13. Duncan trusted, he “planted,” whereas his son is wary See page 14: “There’s no art/To find the mind’s construction in the face:/[Cawdor] was a gentleman on whom I built/an absolute trust” (I.iv.12-14)

17. 14. Macduff insults Macbeth by skipping the coronation

18. 15. Banquo suspects that Macbeth engaged in foul play/deceit to expedite the prophecies

19. 16. The last supper! Who is the next to go?

20. 17. Ride you this afternoon. Is’t far you ride. Goes Fleance with you
17. Ride you this afternoon? Is’t far you ride? Goes Fleance with you? Fleance is the one who could potentially be a king, so he’s a very real threat to Macbeth