Which theme from Macbeth do these lines support?
What is the final question Macbeth asks the witches, which they refuse to answer?
August 5, 2019Macbeth Plot Analysis Graphic Organizer
August 5, 2019Which theme from Macbeth do these lines support?
Question Description
1.
Which of the following is a theme from Macbeth?
| Those without convictions are easily manipulated. | |
| The visible is more dangerous than the invisible. | |
| Firm beliefs will help you succeed. | |
| Friendship can withstand any challenge. |
2.
Which theme from Macbeth do these lines support?
This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill,
Why hath it given me earnest of success,
Commencing in a truth?
| Those without convictions are easily manipulated. | |
| Darkness is dangerous. | |
| Ambition unchecked can lead to corruption. | |
| Things are not always what they seem. |
3.
In a response of three to five sentences, explain how Macbeth changes throughout the scene in this lesson. Use the lines from Group A, when he first hears the weird sisters’ greeting, and Group B, the aside he makes after he learns he has been named Thane of Cawdor, to support your answer.
| Group A By Sinel’s death I know I am Thane of Glamis; 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. |
Group B [Aside.] Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial (royal) theme-… If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings: My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smother’d in surmise, and nothing is But what is not. |
