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What is the Elizabethan Era?
The Era both Macbeth and Hamlet was written in
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Who are the 3 Witches (Weird Sisters)?
They planted the seeds of greed and ambition in Macbeth that ultimately led to his fall.
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What is the ghost of King Hamlet?
The catalyst that drove hamlet into becoming the person he was
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What is a ghost? (Elizabethan definition)
The soul of a dead person who is said to appear to the living in bodily likeliness at a place
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What is the dagger?
This illusion shows Macbeth's insecurities with his actions--a figment of Macbeth's hallucinations.
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What is the Afterlife?
The reason why Hamlet didn't kill Claudius
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Who is the ghost of Lady Jane Grey?
This ghost was Queen of England for just nine days in 1553, as part of an unsuccessful bid to prevent the accession of a Catholic Queen
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What are the Three Apparitions?
An armed head, a bloody child, and a child crowned with a tree in his hand. They showed that Macbeth's fate is inevitable.
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What is Protestant?
This is the religion that is dominant in Denmark.
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Who is the ghost of the Sir Walter Raleigh?
This Elizabethan ghost was an English soldier, courtier, and explorer who was imprisoned at Tower of London and later executed.
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What is the ghost of Banquo?
It reveals Macbeth's state of mind- his guilty conscience
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What is the murder of Polonius?
King Hamlet's Ghost reappears after this point of no return for Hamlet.
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