Test your understanding.
1. What characters are involved in this soliloquy?
2. Why does Lady Macbeth feel the urge to kill Duncan?
3. What is her husbands title?
4. Lady Macbeth is a young lady in a time where she had to stick to doing what the society expected. Name a woman in today's society who has been forced to act in a manner that the society expects.
5. Rewrite the soliloquy in your own words.
6. Name and define three poetic devices used in the dialogue.
7. What did this act foreshadow?
8. What is the significance of Lady Macbeth's soliloquy in the play?
9. What do the lines: 'Come thick night, and pall the in the dunnest smoke of hell, that my keen knife see not the wound it makes, nor the heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, to cry 'Hold, hold!' suggest about her psychological state?
10. How does Lady Macbeth see her role in Macbeth's life?
11. Highlight any words you do not understand and further research and define them by using the internet.
2. Why does Lady Macbeth feel the urge to kill Duncan?
3. What is her husbands title?
4. Lady Macbeth is a young lady in a time where she had to stick to doing what the society expected. Name a woman in today's society who has been forced to act in a manner that the society expects.
5. Rewrite the soliloquy in your own words.
6. Name and define three poetic devices used in the dialogue.
7. What did this act foreshadow?
8. What is the significance of Lady Macbeth's soliloquy in the play?
9. What do the lines: 'Come thick night, and pall the in the dunnest smoke of hell, that my keen knife see not the wound it makes, nor the heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, to cry 'Hold, hold!' suggest about her psychological state?
10. How does Lady Macbeth see her role in Macbeth's life?
11. Highlight any words you do not understand and further research and define them by using the internet.