{"id":10903,"date":"2017-09-04T21:30:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:30:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-09-04T21:30:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:30:24","slug":"MacbethA","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/MacbethA\/","title":{"rendered":"Act 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Text of Book<\/u><\/h2>\n

Act 1, page 1<\/a><\/h3>\n

Act 1, page 2<\/a><\/h3>\n

Act 1, page 3<\/a><\/h3>\n

Act 1, page 4<\/a><\/h3>\n

Act 1, page 5<\/a><\/h3>\n

Act 1, page 6<\/a><\/h3>\n

Act 1, page 7<\/a><\/h3>\n

Questions<\/u><\/h2>\n\n\n
1)<\/b><\/td>\nWhat is the main idea of Act 1?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
2)<\/b><\/td>\nBanquo says to the witches, "…you should be women, \/ And yet your beards forbid me to interpret \/ That you are so…."<\/p>\n

What does "interpret" mean in this passage?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
3)<\/b><\/td>\nAfter hearing the witches tell him he will be Thane of Cawdor and king one day, Macbeth says, "But how of Cawdor? The Thane of Cawdor lives, \/ A prosperous gentleman; and to be King Stands not within the prospect of belief, \/ No more than to be Cawdor…."<\/p>\n

What does "prospect" mean in this passage?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
4)<\/b><\/td>\nBanquo warns Macbeth about believing the witches when he says, "And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, \/ The instruments of darkness tell us truths, \/ Win us with honest trifles, to betray us \/ In deepest consequence"<\/p>\n

What does "instruments" mean in this context?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
5)<\/b><\/td>\nIn the same passage (also copied below), what does "trifles" mean?<\/p>\n

"And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, \/ The instruments of darkness tell us truths, \/ Win us with honest trifles, to betray us \/ In deepest consequence."<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
6)<\/b><\/td>\n What does "plague" mean in this quote from Macbeth? "But in these cases \/ We still have judgement here: that we but teach \/ Bloody instructions, which being taught return \/ To plague th'inventor: this even–handed justice \/ Commends th'ingredience of our poisoned chalice \/ To our own lips."<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
7)<\/b><\/td>\nHow does Macbeth get the title Thane of Cawdor?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
8)<\/b><\/td>\nIn Act 1, scene 3, the first witch's story about the sailor's wife shows that the witches are:<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
9)<\/b><\/td>\nSelect the three prophecies the three witches give to Banquo.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
10)<\/b><\/td>\nAfter reading a letter from Macbeth telling her about the events of the battle and his meeting with the witches, Lady Macbeth says: "…yet do I fear they nature; It is too full o'th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way; thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it:"<\/p>\n

What do Lady Macbeth's statements about her husband reveal?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
11)<\/b><\/td>\nWho tells Macbeth to "look like the innocent flower, \/ But be the serpent under't."?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
12)<\/b><\/td>\nWhat is Lady Macbeth asking for in the passage below?
(Act 1, Scene 5, lines 41–45)<\/p>\n

"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! Make thick my blood; \/ Stop up th' access and passage to remorse,"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
13)<\/b><\/td>\nMacbeth says, "…and I have bought \/ Golden opinions from all sorts of people, \/ Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, \/ Not cast aside so soon."<\/p>\n

What does "golden opinions" mean?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
14)<\/b><\/td>\nIn his long speech at the beginning of scene vii, Macbeth says he believes he should not kill King Duncan for all of the following reasons except<\/b>:<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
15)<\/b><\/td>\nWho do Lady Macbeth and Macbeth plan to frame for the murder of the king?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
16)<\/b><\/td>\nWere there any events that weren't clear to you?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Text of Book Act 1, page 1 Act 1, page 2 Act 1, page 3 Act 1, page 4 Act 1, page 5 Act 1, page 6 Act 1, page 7 Questions 1) What is the main idea of Act 1? 2) Banquo says to the witches, "…you should be women, \/ And yet your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Wizard-of-Oz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}