Macbeth Brief Questions
Macbeth is a notable literary work by William Shakespeare. A complete discussion of this literary work is given, which will help you enhance your literary skills and prepare for the exam. Read the Main texts, Key info, Summary, Themes, Characters, Literary devices, Quotations, Notes, and various study materials of Macbeth.
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Macbeth Brief Questions
What is Inverness? (NU. 2016)/ What is the name of Macbeth’s castle? (NU. 2022)
Ans. Inverness is the name of Macbeth’s castle.
What is the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth?
Ans: Macbeth is the play’s protagonist, and Lady Macbeth is his wife.
Who are the three witches? ✪✪✪
Ans: Representing evil, darkness, chaos, and conflict, the Three Witches, also known as the Weird Sisters, plot against Macbeth using spells and prophecies.
Who was Hecate?
Ans- Hecate is the Goddess of witchcraft.
How do the three witches greet Macbeth? (NU. 2020, 23)
Ans: They greet Macbeth as the Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, and as the future King.
Who is Macduff?
Ans: Macduff is a general in Duncan’s army. His wife and son were killed by Macbeth’s men, and eventually he was able to slay Macbeth.
On what pretext does Lady Macbeth refuse to kill Duncan? ✪✪✪ (NU. 2020)
Ans: Lady Macbeth refuses to kill Duncan because he looks like her father sleeping there.
What is the cause of Lady Macbeth’s madness? ✪✪✪ (NU. 2021)
Ans: Her guilt over her crimes causes Lady Macbeth’s madness.
What does Lady Macbeth pray to the spirits when she hears the approaching of Duncan? ✪✪✪ (NU. 2021)
Ans. She wants to be filled with cruelty, given a hard heart, and the thick blood necessary to do what has to be done in order to make Macbeth king.
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair”- What is meant here?
Ans: What is considered good is, in fact, wrong, and what is considered bad is actually good.
Who was Duncan? ✪✪✪
Ans: Duncan, a fictitious character, was the excellent King of Scotland.
Who was Malcolm?
Ans: Malcolm was King Duncan’s oldest son, the heir to the throne, and brother to Donalbain.
What does the phrase ‘the milk of human kindness’ mean? ✪✪✪ (DU aff.- 2018)
Ans: Gentleness of human nature.
Why does Lady Macbeth wish to drive away her feminine qualities? ✪✪✪ (NU. 2022)
Ans. Lady Macbeth wishes to drive away feminine qualities so that she can execute her design of putting an end to Duncan’s life.
What is Golgotha?
Ans: Golgotha was the place where Christ was hanged on the cross.
What does the phrase ‘the milk of human kindness’ mean?
Ans: The gentleness of human nature.
What does Macbeth do with the daggers after the murder?
Ans: After Macbeth murders King Duncan, he takes the daggers to his wife instead of leaving them with the guards.
What figure of speech do you find in “Fair is foul, and foul is fair”? ✪✪✪ (NU. 2013; DU aff.- 2017)
Ans: Alliteration & Assonance, and Paradox.
What was Duncan’s gift to Lady Macbeth? (NU. 2014)
Ans: A precious Diamond.
Where did the three witches meet? (NU. 2016; DU aff.- 2017)
Ans: On the heath (marshes).
What is Macbeth’s tragic flaw? ✪✪✪ (NU. 2013, 17; DU aff.- 2018)
Ans: His high ambition.
“All the perfumes of Arabia Will not sweeten this little hand.”- Who is the speaker? ✪✪✪ (NU. 2018)
Ans: Lady Macbeth spoke this hyperbolic line.
Who is the peerless dame of Greece? ✪✪✪ (NU. 2012, 16, 18)
Ans: “The peerless dame of Greece” is Helen, the wife of Menelaus.
Who utters, “Fair is foul and foul is fair?” ✪✪✪ (NU. 2019)
Ans: The Witches say, “Fair is foul and foul is fair.”
Who kills Macbeth? (NU. 2015, 17, 19, 23)
Ans: Macduff kills Macbeth.
Name the sons of King Duncan. (NU. 2019, 23)
Ans: Malcolm and Donalbain were Duncan’s sons.
How do the three witches address Macbeth? (NU. 2014, 18, 20, 23)
Ans. They greet him as “Thane of Glamis, “Thane of Cawdor, and King hereafter” (future king).
Why does Lady Macbeth faint? ✪✪✪ (DU aff.- 2018)
Ans: In an attempt to distract Macduff from her husband’s inadequate reasoning, Lady Macbeth pretends to faint.
Who is Bellona’s bridegroom? (NU. 2022)
Ans. Macbeth is described as “Bellona’s bridegroom”.
What does Lady Macbeth’s fainting signify?
Ans: Lady Macbeth’s fainting signifies that she is completely shocked that the king has been murdered.
What three things does Macbeth learn from the witches and apparitions?
Ans. Three things: he should fear Macduff, he should not fear any man born of a woman, and nothing will affect his reign until Birnam Wood moves.
Complete the gap in the following statement: “It is a tale—– full of sound and fury” (NU. 2013)
Ans: “It is a tale told by an Idiot, full of sound and fury”.