Macbeth
Graphic Novel - Act One – Quick Text Version
Scene One
- setting:
- characters:
Scene Two
- setting:
- characters:
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3 witches
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King Duncan
Sergeant
Lenox
Malcolm
Rosse
Part One
Multiple Choice Questions
Read each question carefully. Select the most correct response.
1. With whom are the witches planning
to meet?
a. King Duncan
b. the Heath
c. Macbeth
d. Fleance
2. What kind of warrior is Macbeth?
a. brave
b. violent
c. strong
d. all of the above
3. The colours on the pages help
a. make the page look better
b. create the mood
c. catch your attention
d. none of the above
4. Why are words bolded throughout the
text?
a. to add emphasis to the word(s)
b. because they look better
c. to add difference to the text
d. because it is the title of the play
5. The best meaning of the word
surrendered found on page 11 is:
a. run around
b. died
c. fought harder
d. given up
6. How does the reader know a new
scene has started?
a. New scenes start on a new page.
b. New scenes are labeled with a text box in the
shape of a scroll
c. New scenes usually begin with a caption.
d. all of the above
7. How is the reader expected to follow
the speech bubbles?
a. they are organized in top to bottom, left to
right order
b. the bubbles are numbered
c. there is only one bubble to be read per
box
d. readers can read the bubbles in any order
Part Two
Short Response
Answer the following question using only the lines provided.
8. Using at least 2 pieces of evidence from the text and your own ideas, describe the
character of Macbeth. (Focus on using adjectives to identify his traits)
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Macbeth
Graphic Novel - Act One - Quick Text
Scene Three
- setting:
- characters:
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3 witches
Angus
Macbeth
Rosse
Banquo
Part One
Multiple Choice Questions
Read each question carefully. Select the most correct response.
1. What do the witches tell Banquo?
a. that he will be king
b. that his children will be king
c. that Macbeth will be king
d. that he will die a painful death
2. How does Macbeth feel after being
told he is to become Thane of Cawdor
by the witches?
a. crazy
b. calm
c. peaceful
d. confused
3. Based on Macbeth’s experience in
this scene, how are people often
rewarded for good work?
a. promoted
b. fined
c. pat on the head
d. visit from witches
5. The best meaning of the word
thane found on page 14 is:
a. king
b. peasant
c. chief
d. beggar
6. How does the reader know a
character is thinking?
a. the word bubble is in the shape of a cloud
b. the word bubble is a square
c. the text begins with ―thought:…‖
d. none of the above
7. How does the reader know Macbeth
has been in battle?
a. the reader sees his wounds
b. the reader sees his war medals
c. the reader sees blood on his clothes
4. How does the artist indicate that
characters are whispering?
a. words are bolded
b. the bubbles are shaded
c. the bubbles are wobbly
d. the bubbles are created by dotted lines
Part Two
Short Response
Answer the following question using only the lines provided.
8. Using evidence from the text and your own ideas, explain how Macbeth feels about
the 3rd prophecy spoken by the witches after Rosse and Angus share news about
Macbeth’s promotion with him.
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LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT THE ORIGINAL TEXT
Act 1 Scene 3 – The witches approach Macbeth while he is on his way home after the war
MACBETH
Speak, if you can: what are you?
FIRST WITCH
Identify the 3 prophecies given to Macbeth by the witches:
All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of
Glamis!
1.
SECOND WITCH
2.
All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of
Cawdor!
3.
THIRD WITCH
All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!
BANQUO
Good sir, why do you start and seem to fear
Things that do sound so fair? (to the
WITCHES) I' th' name of truth,
Are ye fantastical, or that indeed
Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner
You greet with present grace and great
prediction
According to Banquo, Macbeth first reacts in 2 two ways:
1.
2.
Of noble having and of royal hope,
That he seems rapt withal.
MACBETH
Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more.
By Sinel’s death I know I am thane of Glamis.
Macbeth states himself that he cannot
news that he has just received.
the
But how of Cawdor? The thane of Cawdor lives,
A prosperous gentleman, and to be king
Stands not within the prospect of belief,
ANGUS
We are sent to give thee thanks. Not pay thee
ROSS
And, for an earnest of a greater honor,
He bade me, from him, call thee thane of
Angus and Ross deliver news of Macbeth’s promotion: he
is to become
Cawdor.
BANQUO
Banquo believes that
What, can the devil speak true?
MACBETH
The thane of Cawdor lives. Why do you
dress me in borrowed robes?
Macbeth is still
ANGUS
Who was the thane lives yet,
But under heavy judgment bears that life
Which he deserves to lose. He was
combined with those of Norway, or did
line with the rebels. He labored in his
country’s wrack. Treason is capital,
confessed and proved, have overthrown
him.
Macbeth received the promotion to Thane of Cawdor
because
MACBETH
(to himself) It’s just like they said—now I’m the
At this point Macbeth is
thane of Glamis and the thane of Cawdor. And the
best part of what they predicted is still to come.
(to ROSS and ANGUS) Thank you for the news.
BANQUO
That, trusted home,
Might yet enkindle you unto the crown,
But Banquo tells him not to trust the witches because
Besides the thane of Cawdor. But ’tis strange.
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths, win
us with honest trifles, to betray us in deepest
consequence.
Macbeth speaks to himself and states
MACBETH
(aside)
Two truths are told,
As happy prologues to the swelling act
1.
Of the imperial theme. (to ROSS and ANGUS) I
thank you, gentlemen.
(aside) This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill,
2.
Why hath it given me earnest of success,
Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor. If
good, why do I yield to that suggestion whose
3.
horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my
seated heart knock at my ribs, against the use of
nature? Present fears are less than horrible
imaginings.
4.
My thought, whose murder yet is but
fantastical, shakes so my single state of man
That function is smothered in surmise,
And nothing is but what is not.
His final decision before the end of the scene reveals
MACBETH
1.
(aside) If chance will have me king, why,
chance may crown me without my stir.
BANQUO
New honors come upon him, like our strange
2.
garments, cleave not to their mold But with the
aid of use.
MACBETH
(aside)
Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest
day.
MACBETH
Give me your favor. My dull brain was wrought
with things forgotten. Let us toward the king.
(aside to BANQUO) Think upon what hath
chanced, and, at more time, let us speak our
free hearts each to other.
Banquo believes
Macbeth
Graphic Novel - Act One
Scene Four
- setting:
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- characters:
King Duncan
Macbeth
Malcolm
Scene Five
- setting: ____________________________
- characters: Lady Macbeth Messenger Macbeth
Banquo
Part One
Multiple Choice Questions
Read each question carefully. Select the most correct response.
1. What announcement does King
5. The best meaning of the word
noble found on page 19 is:
Duncan make in scene four?
a. He has executed Cawdor
b. He has confessed his sins
c. His son is heir to the throne
d. Macbeth is heir to the throne
a. cowardly
b. brave
c. honourable
d. manipulator
6. Who lives at Inverness?
2. What does Lady Macbeth think of
Macbeth’s personality?
a. he is kind hearted
b. he is violent
c. he is weak
d. he is without courage
3. Consider Lady Macbeth’s character;
what kind of wife is she?
a. loving
b. manipulative
c. controlling
d. all of the above
4. What emotion is indicated in Lady
Macbeth’s speeches on page 20?
a. surprise
b. fear
c. sadness
d. enthusiasm
a. King Duncan
b. Macbeth
c. Banquo
d. Fleance
7. On page 19, how is Duncan’s power
indicated in the pictures?
a. he is wearing a crown.
b. he is sitting on a throne.
c. There is a red carpet on his floor.
d. all of the above.
8. By the end of this scene Lady Macbeth
has convinced her husband to kill the king?
a. true
b. false
9. On page 21, Lady Macbeth calls on
evil spirits because she needs their
help to
a. come up with a plan to kill the king
b. convince her husband to go through with her plan
c. become courageous enough to kill the king
d. cast a spell on the king so that he will die
Part Two
Note Making
Answer the following question using only the lines provided.
10. Using evidence from the text and your own ideas, list how Lady Macbeth influences
her husband on page 22 to kill Duncan.
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DUNCAN
Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not
Those in commission yet returned?
MALCOLM
ACT ONE SCENE 4
My liege,
They are not yet come back. But I
have spoke with one that saw him die,
who did report that very frankly he
confessed his treasons,
While the King waits to hear if the traitor was executed,
Malcolm talks about him . . .
Implored your highness' pardon,
and set forth a deep repentance.
Nothing in his life became him like the
leaving it. He died as one that had
been studied in his death
To throw away the dearest thing he
owed as ’twere a careless trifle.
DUNCAN
There’s no art
To find the mind’s construction in
Important theme:
the face. He was a gentleman on
whom I built an absolute trust.
DUNCAN
My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow. Sons, kinsmen, thanes,
And you whose places are the nearest, know
We will establish our estate upon
Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter
The prince of Cumberland; which honor must
On this same day the King names . . .
Not unaccompanied invest him only,
But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine
On all deservers. (to MACBETH)
From hence to Inverness,
And bind us further to you
MACBETH
(aside) The prince of Cumberland!
That is a step on which I must fall
down, or else o'erleap, for in my way
We start to see a change in Macbeth by his reaction to
this news
it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not
light see my black and deep desires.
The eye wink at the hand, yet let that
be which the eye fears, when it is
done, to see.
DUNCAN
The King believes that Macbeth
True, worthy Banquo. He is full so
valiant, and in his commendations I am
fed; it is a banquet to me.—Let’s after
him, whose care is gone before to bid us
welcome: it is a peerless kinsman
But really . . .
Therefore . . .
Macbeth
Graphic Novel - Act One
Scene Six
- setting:
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- characters:
King Duncan
Malcolm
Lady Macbeth
Scene Seven
- setting: ____________________________
- characters: Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Part One
Multiple Choice Questions
Read each question carefully. Select the most correct response.
1. Who greets King Duncan at
5. The best meaning of the word
Inverness?
ambition found on page 25 is:
a. two messenger boys
b. Lady Macbeth
c. Macbeth
d. Malcolm
2. What literary device is present when
Malcolm comments that the birds
nesting at Inverness is a good sign?
a. pathetic fallacy
b. oxymoron
c. imagery
d. irony
3. How would you describe Macbeth’s
emotions in scene seven?
a. fear
b. honour
c. laziness
d. drive
6. What emotion is indicated by the
jagged division on page 26?
a. sadness
b. anger
c. fear
d. confusion
7. How is Macbeth’s movement
indicated in the first panel on page
27?
a. undecided
b. excited
c. controlling
d. sick
4. What tool will Macbeth use to kill
Duncan?
a. broom
b. knife
c. dagger
d. gun
a. colour
b. repeated lines
c. arrows
d. blurring
8. Lady Macbeth convinces her
husband that they will not
in the murder of Duncan.
a. fail
b. succeed
c. attempt
d. get caught
Part Two
Short Response
Answer the following question using only the lines provided.
9. Describe a time in your life when you felt pressured by someone. Use specific details
to explain whether you gave into that pressure or not, and explain why.
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