Which of these lines provides important information for the exposition of the play? (10 points)
O Banquo, Banquo!/Our royal master's murder'd!
And, for an earnest of a greater honor,/He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor
Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives.
Hail, king, for so thou art: behold, where stands/The usurper's cursed head:
4.
Why are these lines from Act III important in the plot of the play? (2 paragraphs) (25 points)
Macbeth to Lady Macbeth
the time has been,
That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
And there an end; but now they rise again,
With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,
And push us from our stools: this is more strange
Than such a murder is
5.
Using these lines from Act I and Act IV, explain how the Macbeth described in the beginning of the play is different from the Macbeth who is speaking these lines in ACT IV. (2 paragraphs) (25 points)
ACT I
Soldier
But all's too weak;
For brave Macbeth,—well he deserves that name,—
Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,
Which smok'd with bloody execution,
Like valor's minion,Carv'd out his passage
Till he fac'd the slave;
And ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,
Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,
And fix'd his head upon our battlements.