GCSE - Gcse English Literature - Macbeth - Illustrating And Supporting Points Solution

Q.1.

"Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown / And put a barren sceptre in my gripe." - Macbeth

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Macbeth regrets that his descendants will not inherit the throne, worrying that the witches have given him a "fruitless" crown and a barren "sceptre"
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Macbeth regrets that his descendants will not inherit the throne, worrying that the witches have given him a "fruitless crown" and a "barren sceptre"
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Macbeth regrets that his descendants will not inherit the throne, worrying that the witches have given him a fruitless crown and a barren sceptre
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Macbeth regrets that his descendants will not "inherit" the throne, worrying that the "witches" have given him a "fruitless crown" and a "barren sceptre"

Q.2.

"I have bought / Golden opinions from all sorts of people, / Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, / Not cast aside so soon." - Macbeth

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Macbeth thinks of other people's impressions of him as clothing: they are golden opinions which he does not wish to cast aside
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Macbeth thinks of other people's impressions of him as "clothing": they are "golden" opinions which he does not wish to cast "aside"
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Macbeth thinks of other people's impressions of him as clothing: they are "golden opinions" which he does not wish to "cast aside"
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Macbeth thinks of other people's "impressions" of him as "clothing": they are "golden opinions" which he does not wish to "cast aside"

Q.3.

"There's no art / To find the mind's construction in the face." - The King

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One of the themes of Macbeth is the lack of correspondence between physical appearance and character. The King makes this point when he comments on the impossibility of reading a man's character in his face
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One of the themes of Macbeth is the lack of correspondence between physical appearance and character. The King makes this point when he says, "There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face"
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By saying "There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face", the King comments on how appearances can be deceptive
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All of the above

Q.4.

"If you can look into the seeds of time, / And say which grain will grow, and which will not, / Speak then to me." - Banquo

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Banquo views "present" events as "seeds of time" which will grow into "future" events
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Banquo views present events as seeds of time which will grow into future events
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Banquo views present events as "seeds of time" which will grow into future events
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Banquo talks - "seeds of time" - about present events which will grow into future events

Q.5.

"Thou shalt not live, / That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies / And sleep in spite of thunder." - Macbeth

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Macbeth is ashamed of "pale-hearted" fear and has no trouble "sleeping in spite of thunder"
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Macbeth is ashamed of pale-hearted fear and has no trouble "sleeping in spite of thunder"
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Macbeth's determination to destroy those whom he fears represents an attempt to feel safe, to sleep in spite of thunder
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Macbeth's determination to destroy those whom he fears represents an attempt to feel safe, to "sleep in spite of thunder"

Q.6.

"Our high-placed Macbeth / Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath / To time, and mortal custom." - Macbeth

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Macbeth refers to himself both with the royal "we", saying "our", and in the "third" person as "Macbeth"
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Macbeth refers to himself both with the royal "we", saying our, and in the third person as Macbeth
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In saying our high-placed Macbeth, Macbeth refers to himself in both the first and the third person simultaneously
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In saying "Our high-placed Macbeth", Macbeth refers to himself in both the first and the third person simultaneously

Q.7.

"His two chamberlains / Will I with wine and wassail so convince, / That memory, the warder of the brain, / Shall be a fume." - Lady Macbeth

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Lady Macbeth compares memory to a "warder" guarding the brain
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Lady Macbeth compares "memory" to a "warder" guarding the brain
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Lady Macbeth intends to get the chamberlains drunk through "wine" and wassail
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Lady Macbeth intends to get the "chamberlains" drunk through "wine" and "wassail"

Q.8.

"Be this the whetstone of your sword. Let grief / Convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it." - Malcolm

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Malcolm encourages Macduff to use his "anger" to fight Macbeth, sharpening his "sword" on the "whetstone" of his "grief"
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Malcolm encourages Macduff to use his anger to fight Macbeth, sharpening his sword on the "whetstone of his grief"
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Malcolm encourages Macduff to use his anger to fight Macbeth, sharpening his sword on the "whetstone" of his grief
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Malcolm encourages Macduff to use his anger to fight Macbeth, "sharpening his sword" on the "whetstone" of his grief

Q.9.

"When the hurly-burly's done, / When the battle's lost, and won." - 2nd Witch

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By referring to battle dismissively as a "hurly-burly" and acknowledging both the "winning" and the "losing" sides, the witch shows little interest in human affairs
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By referring to battle dismissively as a "hurly-burly" and acknowledging both the winning and the losing sides, the witch shows little interest in human affairs
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By referring to battle dismissively as a "hurly-burly" and acknowledging both the winning and the losing "sides", the "witch" shows little interest in human affairs
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By referring to battle dismissively as a hurly-burly and acknowledging both the winning and the losing sides, the witch shows little interest in human affairs

Q.10.

"Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men / May read strange matters." - Lady Macbeth

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Lady Macbeth warns her husband that his facial expression gives him away, "as a book" where men may read strange matters
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Lady Macbeth warns her husband that his facial expression gives him away, saying that others may read him "as a book"
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Lady Macbeth warns her husband that his facial expression gives him away. "Your face, my thane, is as a book."
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Lady Macbeth warns her husband that his facial expression gives him away, as a book where men may read strange matters