Macbeth - themes test questions

Ambition, Appearance and Reality, and the Supernatural are just three of the themes explored in Macbeth. Match the quotations to the themes they represent.

1

"Thou wouldst be great, / Art not without ambition, but without / The illness should attend it."

2

"Is this a dagger which I see before me, / The handle toward my hand?"

3

"Look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under't."

4

"Have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / Vaulting ambition"

5

"Come you spirits / And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full with direst cruelty."

6

"By the pricking of my thumbs, / Something wicked this way comes."