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Themes, Ideas and Messages MatchUp

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4-5

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Drag the top boxes to their matching pair. You must match all the pairs before clicking ‘Check!’ Match the quotation with the relevant analysis. This quiz focuses on AO2.

Here we see the theme of guilt and a suggestion that bad deeds cannot be undone.

Here we see the theme of violence. Macbeth realises that one violent act leads to another, which is exactly what has happened to him.

Here we see the themes of appearances and reality, and deception. Flowers symbolise beauty and nature, whereas a serpent represents danger and deception.

Here we see the theme of death through the symbolism and language of death.

Here we see the theme of chaos and the unnatural happenings that are a result of the king being murdered. There is no doubt that the strange happenings are real and that everything is affected, even animals.

Here we see the theme of fate and destiny. Macbeth's good intentions do not last long (particularly after he has spoken to Lady Macbeth, who has other ideas).

Here we see the theme of appearances and reality. Macbeth is so worried about what he is going to do that he's seeing things.

Here we see the theme of trust and disloyalty. There is irony here as we know that the new thane is also disloyal.

Here we see the theme of trust and deception. Duncan clearly trusts Lady Macbeth but she proves to be a dangerous hostess.

Macbeth:

If chance will have me king, why

chance may crown me,

Without my stir

(Act 1, Scene 3)

Lady Macbeth:

look like the innocent flower,

But be the serpent under't

(Act 1, Scene 5)

Lady Macbeth:

What, will these hands ne'er be clean?

(Act 5, Scene 1)

Ross:

And Duncan's horses – a thing most strange and certain –

Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race,

Turned wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out

(Act 2, Scene 4)

Lady Macbeth:

The raven himself is hoarse

That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan

Under my battlements

(Act 1, Scene 5)

Duncan:

No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive

Our bosom interest

(Act 1, Scene 2)

Duncan:

See, see! our honoured hostess!

(Act 1, Scene 6)

Macbeth:

Is this a dagger which I see before me,

The handle toward my hand?

(Act 2, Scene 1)

Macbeth:

It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood

(Act 3, Scene 4)

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Pass Mark

75%