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Macbeth-Workbook

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MACBETH
NAME _________________
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About the Author: Shakespeare
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Historical and Social Context: Macbeth
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Character Profile: MACBETH
Thane of Glamis. Macbeth is a General in King Duncan's army and related to King
Duncan. He becomes Thane of Cawdor, then King of Scotland
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Character Profile: LADY MACBETH
Wife of Macbeth. Helps Macbeth plan Duncan’s murder and later commits suicide
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Character Profile: Three Witches
They prophecies the future for Macbeth, who then comes to rely on them for their powers
Prophecy 1:
Prophecy 2:
Prophecy 3:
How does this Make
Macbeth/ Banquo feel?
How does this Make
Macbeth/ Banquo feel?
How does this Make
Macbeth/ Banquo feel?
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Character Profile: King Duncan
King of Scotland, He is murdered by Macbeth
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Character Profile:
Malcolm
Character Profile:
Donalbain
Duncans elder son. He flees to England
after Duncan is murdered. He becomes
King of Scotland after Macbeth
Duncan’s younger son. He flees to ireland
after Duncan is murdered
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Character Profile: Macduff
Thane of Fife. He is suspicious of Macbeth and flees to England. He gets revenge for the
murder of his family by killing Macbeth
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Character Profile: Lady Macduff
Wife of Macduff. She is murdered at Macbeths orders.
Character Profile: Son of Macduff
A boy also murdered at Macbeths orders
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Character Profile: Banquo
General in King Duncan’s army and a friend of Macbeth.
He is murdered at Macbeth’s orders.
Character Profile: Fleance
Banquo’s son. He escapes the murderers sent to kill him by Macbeth
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Character Profile: Ross
He serves Macbeth but later deserts him. He informs Macduff of his wife’s murder.
Character Profile: Lennox
He serves Macbeth but later switches sides to fight against him.
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ACT 1 Summary
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
Scene 6
Scene 7
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ACT 2 Summary
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
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ACT 3 Summary
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
Scene 6
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ACT 4 Summary
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
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ACT 5 Summary
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
Scene 6
Scene 7
Scene 8
Scene 9
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ACT 1: Find suitable quotations to prove the statements made
about each scene.
Act 1, scene 1
The play begins with an eerie, almost supernatural atmosphere.
Act 1, scene 2
Macbeth has triumphed in the battle.
Macbeth is well respected by King Duncan.
Macbeth has been given the new title of Thane of Cawdor.
Act 1, scene 3
The supernatural elements of the play are reinforced by Macbeth’s first words echoing those of the weird
sisters in I, i.
Macbeth’s initial reaction to the prophecies is one of bewilderment.
Macbeth considers how he might become king sooner than expected.
Macbeth believes he should take no action to hasten his becoming king.
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Act 1, scene 4
The theme of appearance and reality is emphasised by Duncan.
Duncan appoints Malcolm his successor.
Macbeth sees Malcolm as a rival for the crown.
Duncan has great respect for Macbeth.
Act 1, scene 5
Lady Macbeth thinks that her husband is rather weak.
Lady Macbeth believes she can influence her husband to do what she wants.
Lady Macbeth calls upon evil or supernatural powers to help her.
Lady Macbeth is aware of the need to show a friendly appearance but to be cruel and cunning in reality.
Act 1, scene 6
Duncan still respects Macbeth and will reward him further.
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Act 1, scene 7
Macbeth has doubts about killing Duncan.
Macbeth is ambitious and really does want to be king.
Lady Macbeth is angered at her husband’s apparent weakness.
Lady Macbeth convinces her husband to kill Duncan.
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ACT 2: Find suitable quotations to prove the statements made
about each scene.
Act 2, scene 1
Macbeth promises honours to Banquo once he is king, in return for Banquo’s loyalty.
Macbeth’s vision of the dagger causes further doubts about the murder.
Macbeth is resolved now to murder Duncan.
Act 2, scene 2
Macbeth and his wife experience ill omens.
Lady Macbeth tells her husband to “pull himself together” and get rid of the evidence.
Macbeth shows signs of remorse and anxiety.
Lady Macbeth feels that she has more courage than her husband.
Act 2, scene 3
Lennox and Macduff experienced ill omens during the previous night.
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Macduff announces to all that Duncan has been murdered.
Macbeth killed Duncan’s guards because he was so enraged that they killed Duncan.
Malcolm and Donaldbain flee in case they are killed next.
Act 2, scene 4
There have been more ill omens.
Macbeth is about to be crowned king.
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ACT 3: Find suitable quotations to prove the statements made
about each scene.
Act 3, scene 1
Banquo is suspicious of how Macbeth came to be king.
Macbeth feels insecure about being king and he is afraid of Banquo.
Macbeth is good at manipulating people to believe what he wants them to believe.
Macbeth plotted Banquo’s murder.
Act 3, scene 2
Macbeth’s worries deepen. Shakespeare uses animal imagery to illustrate this.
Lady Macbeth is determined to keep up appearances.
Macbeth keeps to himself the plot against Banquo. Lady Macbeth does not know.
Act 3, scene 3
Banquo is murdered but Fleance escapes. The murderers have done half a job.
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Act 3, scene 4
Macbeth is disturbed by the news that Fleance lives.
Macbeth’s strange behaviour (ie he sees the ghost that no-one else can see) is explained away as an illness.
Lady Macbeth – as she has done before – tells her husband to pull himself together.
Macbeth shows signs of fear and possibly paranoia.
Macbeth contemplates ill omens.
Macbeth is resolved to get more information from the weird sisters.
Macbeth sees that he can’t turn back. He must carry on even if it means more bloodshed.
Act 3, scene 5
Hecate and the weird sisters plan to lead Macbeth to his own ruin.
Act 3, scene 6
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Some Thanes regard Macbeth as a dictator.
ACT 4: Find suitable quotations to prove the statements made
about each scene.
Act 4, scene 1
Quote the three new predictions.
Macbeth is resolved to have Macduff and his family killed.
Act 4, scene 2
Lady Macduff is cross with her husband for being absent from Fife.
Act 4, scene 3
Macduff views Macbeth as a bloodthirsty dictator who is not fit to live.
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ACT 5: Find suitable quotations to prove the statements made
about each scene.
Act 5, scene 1
Lady Macbeth’s “sleep-talking” reveals her and Macbeth’s crimes.
Lady Macbeth is tormented by subconscious guilt for Duncan’s murder.
Act 5, scene 2
Angus realises that Macbeth is obeyed only out of obedience, not out of loyalty.
Act 5, scene 3
Macbeth is hubristic.
Macbeth is violent and abusive towards his subjects.
Macbeth resolves to fight until his death.
Macbeth wishes his political problems in Scotland could be sorted out by “medicine.”
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Act 5, scene 4
Malcolm and the English chop down branches from Birnam Wood to hide their army’s strength.
Act 5, scene 5
Macbeth is quite numb and has no fear.
Macbeth is becoming nihilistic.
Macbeth is afraid but still gives the appearance of brave determination.
Act 5, scene 6
Malcolm is characterised as being worthy to be king.
Act 5, scene 7
Macbeth is confident and successful in battle.
Act 5, scene 8
Macbeth is relying on the prophecy of the weird sisters and believes he is invincible.
Macduff is not “of woman born.”
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Act 5, scene 9
Malcolm is to be crowned king.
Malcolm is likely to be a good king, just like Duncan.
Act 2 Scene 1
Macbeth has reached the point where he must decide whether he will murder King Duncan
or not. Remember Lady Macbeth’s attempts to persuade him. What should he do? List
the reasons he should kill Duncan or not kill the King in the table below.
To kill Duncan . . .
Not to kill Duncan . . .
Next:
❖ Put the reasons in order of priority.
❖ Write a paragraph persuading Macbeth either to kill or not to kill Duncan
❖ Review how Lady Macbeth has tried to influence her husband.
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Analysing Act 2 Scene 1
Court of Macbeth's castle.
Enter BANQUO, and FLEANCE bearing a torch before him
BANQUO
How goes the night, boy?
FLEANCE
The moon is down; I have not heard the clock.
BANQUO
And she goes down at twelve.
FLEANCE
I take't, 'tis later, sir.
BANQUO
Hold, take my sword. There's husbandry in heaven;
Their candles are all out. Take thee that too.
A heavy summons lies like lead upon me,
And yet I would not sleep: merciful powers,
Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature
Gives way to in repose!
Highlight and draw arrows to the
words that suggest darkness.
What atmosphere is created?
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How is Banquo’s nervous state of
mind shown in this speech?
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Enter MACBETH, and a Servant with a torch
Give me my sword.
Who's there?
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MACBETH
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A friend.
BANQUO
What, sir, not yet at rest? The king's a-bed:
He hath been in unusual pleasure, and
Sent forth great largess to your offices.
This diamond he greets your wife withal,
By the name of most kind hostess; and shut up
In measureless content.
What
does Banquo tell the audience
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about Duncan’s visit?
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MACBETH
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Being unprepared,
Our will became the servant to defect;
Which else should free have wrought.
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BANQUO
All's well.
I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters:
To you they have show'd some truth.
MACBETH
I think not of them:
Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve,
We would spend it in some words upon that business,
If you would grant the time.
BANQUO
At your kind'st leisure.
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What does Banquo ask Macbeth
about?
How does Macbeth
respond? Why?
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MACBETH
How and why does Macbeth try to
bribe Banquo?
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If you shall cleave to my consent, when 'tis,
It shall make honour for you.
BANQUO
So I lose none
In seeking to augment it, but still keep
My bosom franchised and allegiance clear,
I shall be counsell'd.
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MACBETH
Good repose the while!
BANQUO
Thanks, sir: the like to you!
Exeunt BANQUO and FLEANCE
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Key question: how has the relationship changed
between Banquo and Macbeth from Act 1?
MACBETH
Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready,
She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed.
Exit Servant
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.
Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going;
Macbeth is alone on the
stage, speaking his thoughts
Match the statements below to
quotations in the soliloquy
o Macbeth imagines that he sees
a dagger
o Macbeth thinks the dagger is a
hallucination due to extreme
stress
o Macbeth reaches out for the
dagger
o He thinks the dagger shows his
feelings
o He can’t believe his eyes
And such an instrument I was to use.
Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses,
Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still,
And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Which was not so before. There's no such thing:
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder,
Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.
With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design
Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,
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Match the statements below to
quotations in the soliloquy
o Macbeth believes the dagger
is a hint to murder Duncan
o He thinks his eyes deceive
him
o The dagger is stained with
blood
o It is night time
o Strange and supernatural
events are occurring
o Macbeth needs to be
stealthy and quiet
o Macbeth decides to kill
Duncan
o Action and not words is what
is needed
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And take the present horror from the time,
Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.
A bell rings
I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
TASK 1
Write a paragraph to explain why you think Macbeth decides to kill Duncan. Before
you write think about the following:
❖ is he really evil?
❖ can he tell the difference between right and wrong?
❖ is he ambitious?
❖ is he under the power of the witches and / or his wife?
❖ is he aware of the seriousness and implications of what he is doing?
❖ is he acting on the spur of the moment?
TASK 3
Imagine you are writing either Macbeth or Banquo’s PUBLIC SPEECH and INNER
THOUGHTS for this scene. Split your page in half and use one half to write what the
character is speaking and the other column to write what they are thinking
Example: Banquo
PUBLIC SPEECH
INNER THOUGHTS
Fleance, we must be vigilant on a dark I have a bad feeling that is preventing
night such as this and guard the King me from sleeping. Macbeth’s behaviour
with our lives . . .
has been most strange at the banquet . .
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Analysing Act 2 Scene 2
What has happened between this scene and the
previous one? Why has it taken place offstage?
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The same.
Enter LADY MACBETH
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LADY MACBETH
That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold;
What hath quench'd them hath given me fire.
Hark! Peace!
It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman,
Which gives the stern'st good-night. He is about it:
The doors are open; and the surfeited grooms
Do mock their charge with snores: I have drugg'd
their possets,
That death and nature do contend about them,
Whether they live or die.
MACBETH
[Within] Who's there? what, ho!
LADY MACBETH
Alack, I am afraid they have awaked,
And 'tis not done. The attempt and not the deed
Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready;
He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled
My father as he slept, I had done't.
Enter MACBETH
My husband!
Underline words in Lady Macbeth’s speech
that show her confidence and exhilaration
in the plot.
How does Shakespeare build tension
here?
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MACBETH
I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise?
LADY MACBETH
I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry.
Did not you speak?
MACBETH
When?
LADY MACBETH
Now.
What is the effect of Shakespeare’s use of
short speeches and questions in the
dialogue between Macbeth and his wife?
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MACBETH
As I descended?
LADY MACBETH
Ay.
MACBETH
Hark!
Who lies i' the second chamber?
LADY MACBETH
Donalbain.
What is on Macbeth’s hands? _________________
What state of mind after the murder?
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Who is the dominant partner – Macbeth of his wife?
Read through the speeches, highlighting quotations that
show:
Lady Macbeth being strong and decisive
Macbeth being weak and frightened
MACBETH
This is a sorry sight.
Looking on his hands
LADY MACBETH
A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.
MACBETH
There's one did laugh in's sleep, and one cried
'Murder!'
That they did wake each other: I stood and heard them:
But they did say their prayers, and address'd them
Again to sleep.
LADY MACBETH
There are two lodged together.
MACBETH
One cried 'God bless us!' and 'Amen' the other;
As they had seen me with these hangman's hands.
Listening their fear, I could not say 'Amen,'
When they did say 'God bless us!'
LADY MACBETH
Consider it not so deeply.
What does Macbeth’s inability to say
‘Amen’ suggest?
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MACBETH
But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'?
I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen'
Stuck in my throat.
LADY MACBETH
What is Lady Macbeth’s warning?
These deeds must not be thought
After these ways; so, it will make us mad.
MACBETH
Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast,–
LADY MACBETH
What do you mean?
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Why is Macbeth worried that he has murdered
sleep?
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MACBETH
Still it cried 'Sleep no more!' to all the house:
'Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore Cawdor
Shall sleep no more; Macbeth shall sleep no more.'
LADY MACBETH
Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane,
You do unbend your noble strength, to think
So brainsickly of things. Go get some water,
And wash this filthy witness from your hand.
Why did you bring these daggers from the place?
They must lie there: go carry them; and smear
The sleepy grooms with blood.
MACBETH
I'll go no more:
I am afraid to think what I have done;
Look on't again I dare not.
What practical advice does Lady Macbeth give
her husband?
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How does this quotation suggest Macbeth’s guilt
and regret on killing Duncan?
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LADY MACBETH
Infirm of purpose!
Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead
Are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed,
I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal;
For it must seem their guilt.
Copy and explain TWO quotations that suggest Lady
Macbeth is frustrated with Macbeth
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Exit. Knocking within
What is the dramatic impact of the knocking at the castle
gates?
Explain what the following quotations reveal
about Macbeth’s state of mind:
MACBETH
“What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine
eyes”
Whence is that knocking?
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How is't with me, when every noise appals me?
What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes.
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Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
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The multitudinous seas in incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
“Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand?”
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“my hand will rather The multitudinous seas in
incarnadine”
Re-enter LADY MACBETH
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LADY MACBETH
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My hands are of your colour; but I shame
To wear a heart so white.
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Knocking within
I hear a knocking
At the south entry: retire we to our chamber;
A little water clears us of this deed:
How easy is it, then! Your constancy
Hath left you unattended.
What do Macbeth’s final lines reveal about his
feelings?
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Knocking within
Hark! more knocking.
Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us,
And show us to be watchers. Be not lost
So poorly in your thoughts.
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MACBETH
To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself.
Knocking within
Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!
Exeunt
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TASK 1: Copy THREE quotations that suggest that Macbeth regrets killing Duncan.
Explain how each quotation shows his guilt.
1. “_________________________________________________________”
explanation
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2. “_________________________________________________________”
explanation
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3. “_________________________________________________________”
explanation
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TASK 2
Imagine that you are creating a film production of this scene. Draw a storyboard to show
how you would film the most tense moment of this scene. Think about how you would use
camera angles, sound effects, costume, setting and lighting to create a tense atmosphere.
Write a paragraph explaining your ideas.
TASK 3
Essay style question. In this scene Lady Macbeth awaits and is then told of Duncan’s
murder. Explain how Shakespeare builds tension in this scene. Consider:
❖ How tension is continued from the previous scene – Act 2 Scene 1
❖ Lady Macbeth’s speech and behaviour as she awaits Macbeth’s return
❖ The differences between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s reactions to Duncan’s murder
❖ Dramatic techniques used to build tension
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TASK 4
In this scene Shakespeare uses a number of techniques to create tension. Fill in the
table below with an example of each technique and an explanation of how it creates
tension.
Technique to
create tension
Quotation: example of
technique
Impact: how it creates tension
Punctuation
Sentence / line
length
Use of contrast or
opposites
Dramatic images
Sound
TASK 5 – who do you feel most sympathy for at this point in the play – Macbeth or
Lady Macbeth? Explain why you think this.
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Preparing for Act 5 Scenes 3 to 5
Remind yourself of the second set of prophecies the witches gave to Macbeth. As a result,
Macbeth feels his position as King of Scotland is secure. Fill in the prophecies and explain
why Macbeth feels so secure because of them.
Macbeth’s Three Prophecies
Prophecy 1:
Prophecy 2:
Prophecy 3:
Why does this prophecy
make Macbeth feel
secure?
Why does this prophecy
make Macbeth feel
secure?
Why does this prophecy
make Macbeth feel
secure?
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Act 5 - Scene 3
Why is the doctor at Macbeth’s castle?
Who has he seen? What have we learnt
about the patient?
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Dunsinane. A room in the castle.
Enter MACBETH, Doctor, and Attendants
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MACBETH
Bring me no more reports; let them fly all:
Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,
I cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm?
Was he not born of woman? The spirits that know
All mortal consequences have pronounced me thus:
'Fear not, Macbeth; no man that's born of woman
Shall e'er have power upon thee.' Then fly,
false thanes,
And mingle with the English epicures:
The mind I sway by and the heart I bear
Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.
Highlight quotations that show Macbeth
relying on the prophecies for security.
Explain how they show this
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Enter a Servant
The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon!
Where got'st thou that goose look?
Servant
There is ten thousand–
MACBETH
Geese, villain!
Copy and explain THREE insults Macbeth
uses to describe the servant
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Servant
Soldiers, sir.
MACBETH
Go prick thy face, and over-red thy fear,
Thou lily-liver'd boy. What soldiers, patch?
Death of thy soul! those linen cheeks of thine
Are counsellors to fear. What soldiers, whey-face?
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Servant
The English force, so please you.
MACBETH
Take thy face hence.
Exit Servant
Seyton!–I am sick at heart,
When I behold–Seyton, I say!–This push
Will cheer me ever, or disseat me now.
I have lived long enough: my way of life
Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf;
And that which should accompany old age,
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,
I must not look to have; but, in their stead,
Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath,
Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. Seyton!
Colour code parts of this speech that
❖ show Macbeth’s bravery
❖ create sympathy for Macbeth
❖ show Macbeth being
demoralised
Copy words that suggest autumn imagery.
Why does Macbeth use them?
Enter SEYTON
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SEYTON
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What is your gracious pleasure?
MACBETH
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What news more?
SEYTON
All is confirm'd, my lord, which was reported.
How does Macbeth react to the news that his
castle is surrounded?
MACBETH
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I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack'd.
Give me my armour.
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SEYTON
'Tis not needed yet.
MACBETH
I'll put it on.
Send out more horses; skirr the country round;
Hang those that talk of fear. Give me mine armour.
How does your patient, doctor?
Doctor
Not so sick, my lord,
As she is troubled with thick coming fancies,
That keep her from her rest.
MACBETH
Cure her of that.
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?
Doctor
Therein the patient
Must minister to himself.
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How are the audience meant to see Macbeth
here?
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What is Lady Macbeth suffering from?
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Macbeth asks the doctor to cure his wife. How
might the cure also be relevant to Macbeth?
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What is the doctor’s diagnosis?
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MACBETH
Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.
Come, put mine armour on; give me my staff.
Macbeth ignores the doctor’s advice; he
Seyton, send out. Doctor, the thanes fly from me.
asks for a cure for Scotland’s ‘diseases’ –
Come, sir, dispatch. If thou couldst, doctor, cast
highlight phrases that suggest illness
The water of my land, find her disease,
And purge it to a sound and pristine health,
I would applaud thee to the very echo,
That should applaud again.–Pull't off, I say.–
What rhubarb, cyme, or what purgative drug,
Would scour these English hence? Hear'st thou of them?
Macbeth PERSONIFIES Scotland, making it seem like a diseased human. Why are images of disease used?
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What does Macbeth continue to rely on?
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Doctor
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Ay, my good lord; your royal preparation
Makes us hear something.
MACBETH
Bring it after me.
I will not be afraid of death and bane,
Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane.
Doctor
What impression do the doctor’s final
words give?
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[Aside] Were I from Dunsinane away and clear,
Profit again should hardly draw me here.
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Exeunt
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Macbeth – THEN and NOW
Compare your impressions of Macbeth in this scene with your views of him after the
murder of Duncan in Act 2 Scene 2. Which words best describe him?
THEN
Act 2 Scene 2
Keywords
NOW
Act 5 Scene 1
in control
confident
nervous
calm
guilty
brave
deceptive
confused
ambitious
fearless
ruthless
fearful
aggressive
remorseful
weak
manipulated
vicious
confused
mislead
The next scene switches to Malcolm, Duncan’s son, and the English forces, who are
preparing to attack Macbeth’s castle. The quick changes of scene remind the
audience just how close Macbeth’s enemies are and make them wonder how reliable
the witches’ prophecies are.
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Act 5 - Scene 4
Country near Birnam wood.
Drum and colours. Enter MALCOLM, SIWARD and YOUNG SIWARD, MACDUFF, MENTEITH,
CAITHNESS, ANGUS, LENNOX, ROSS, and Soldiers, marching
MALCOLM
Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand
That chambers will be safe.
MENTEITH
We doubt it nothing.
SIWARD
Malcolm mentions “chambers” meaning
bedrooms: what does this remind the audience
of?
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What wood is this before us?
MENTEITH
The wood of Birnam.
MALCOLM
Let every soldier hew him down a bough
And bear't before him: thereby shall we shadow
The numbers of our host and make discovery
Err in report of us.
Soldiers
It shall be done.
What has Malcolm ordered? Why? Explain how
the witches’ prophecy comes true.
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SIWARD
We learn no other but the confident tyrant
Keeps still in Dunsinane, and will endure
Our setting down before 't.
MALCOLM
'Tis his main hope:
For where there is advantage to be given,
Both more and less have given him the revolt,
And none serve with him but constrained things
Whose hearts are absent too.
What is happening to people who were
loyal to Macbeth?
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MACDUFF
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Let our just censures
Attend the true event, and put we on
Industrious soldiership.
SIWARD
The time approaches
That will with due decision make us know
What we shall say we have and what we owe.
Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate,
But certain issue strokes must arbitrate:
Towards which advance the war.
Exeunt, marching
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Act 5 - Scene 5
Dunsinane. Within the castle.
Enter MACBETH, SEYTON, and Soldiers, with drum and colours
MACBETH
Hang out our banners on the outward walls;
The cry is still 'They come:' our castle's strength
Will laugh a siege to scorn: here let them lie
Till famine and the ague eat them up:
Were they not forced with those that should be ours,
We might have met them dareful, beard to beard,
And beat them backward home.
A cry of women within
What is that noise?
What clues are given in these speeches
that Macbeth will soon be defeated?
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SEYTON
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It is the cry of women, my good lord.
Exit
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MACBETH
I have almost forgot the taste of fears;
The time has been, my senses would have cool'd
To hear a night- shriek; and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors;
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts
Cannot once start me.
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Re-enter SEYTON
Wherefore was that cry?
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SEYTON
The queen, my lord, is dead.
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MACBETH
She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
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Highlight phrases that show
Macbeth’s confidence that he will win
the siege of his castle
Seyton brings news of Lady
Macbeth’s death. How does Macbeth
react?
How does the cry of women affect
Macbeth’s mood?
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The news of his wife’s death causes Macbeth to brood on the hopelessness of life in this
SOLILOQUY
Connect the statements to the relevant quotations
in the speech.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
o
Life is over as quickly as a burning candle
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
o
Life is meaningless
o
Repetition is used to show the monotony
To the last syllable of recorded time,
of life
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
o
People are foolish
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
o
No-one knows the true meaning of life
o
Life seems as short as an actor in a
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
performing a scene in a play
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
o
No-one is remembered after they die
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
o
Macbeth is unafraid of death
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Enter a Messenger
Thou comest to use thy tongue; thy story quickly.
Messenger
Gracious my lord,
I should report that which I say I saw,
But know not how to do it.
MACBETH
Well, say, sir.
Messenger
As I did stand my watch upon the hill,
I look'd toward Birnam, and anon, methought,
The wood began to move.
MACBETH
What news does the messenger bring?
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Liar and slave!
Messenger
Let me endure your wrath, if't be not so:
Within this three mile may you see it coming;
I say, a moving grove.
MACBETH
If thou speak'st false,
Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive,
Till famine cling thee: if thy speech be sooth,
I care not if thou dost for me as much.
I pull in resolution, and begin
To doubt the equivocation of the fiend
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That lies like truth: 'Fear not, till Birnam wood
Do come to Dunsinane:' and now a wood
Comes toward Dunsinane. Arm, arm, and out!
If this which he avouches does appear,
There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here.
I gin to be aweary of the sun,
And wish the estate o' the world were now undone.
Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!
At least we'll die with harness on our back.
Exeunt
How does Macbeth react to this news?
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Can you summarise the story of Macbeth in ten key points? You might want to start with…
1) The witches predict Macbeth will become king. 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) Macbeth is killed and Malcolm becomes king. M A ROHIM
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Answering Exam Questions on Macbeth: PETAL
Point Answer the quesUon you’re being asked. This should be a statement.
Evidence Technique Analysis Link Use a quote. Try to use small chunks of text, not whole sentences.
Pick a key word from your quote. IdenUfy the a) type of word and b) type of sentence your quote comes from. Consider what the word a) means and b) suggests. How does the sentence type reflect how the character feels? What is the audience supposed to think at this point?
Think about what life was like in Shakespeare’s Ume. What did he want the audience to think about life/men/women/
relaUonships/society in these lines.
MUST ❑ Make a clear point that answers the question ❑ Use a quote ❑ Explore the effect of a key word ❑ Link to Shakespeare’s intentions
SHOULD ❑ Identify the type of word used, exploring different meanings ❑ Identify the type of sentence used, exploring effect ❑ Consider the audience’s reaction ❑ Consider Shakespeare’s intentions
COULD ❑ Explore how characters change across the play ❑ Evaluates Shakespeare’s purpose for writing ❑ Analyse the significance the scene would have had during Shakespeare’s time -­‐
P: Answer the question you’re being asked. This should be a statement. -­‐
E: Use a quote. Try to use small chunks of text, not whole sentences. -­‐
T/A: Pick a key word. Identify the a) type of word and b) type of sentence your quote comes from. Consider what the word a) means and b) suggests. How does the sentence type reflect how the character feels? What is the audience supposed to think at this point? -­‐
L: Think about what life was like in Shakespeare’s time. What did he want the audience to think about life/men/women/relationships/society in these lines. M A ROHIM
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My Skill Audit:
Skill
Very Confident Neither confident (2)
(3)
(1)
Not Very confident unconfident (4)
(5)
Selecting a key word
Identifying word type
Identifying sentence type
Exploring the effect on the reader
Exploring Shakespeare’s intentions
Making links between scenes in the play
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Peer Assesment:
P: They start with a clear point about something Lady Macbeth does
E: They have included a quote, which is copied with no mistakes.
T: They identify the type of word used (noun, verb, adjective). L: They link to what Shakespeare may have wanted his audience to think AND/OR suggest how the scene is historically/culturally significant
A: They explain what the word means and what it might suggest.
T: They identify the type of sentence used (simple, compound or complex).
A: They explain how the sentence type can add to the meaning of the quote.
A: They explain the effect on the audience/reader.
Must (Level 4) -­‐ Make a point -­‐ Include a quote -­‐ Explain what the quote means -­‐ Link to what Shakespeare wanted us to think Should (Level 5) -­‐ Identify a the type of word used -­‐ Commented on different meanings of the key word -­‐ Explain the audiences thoughts/feelings Could (Level 6) -­‐ Identify sentence type or punctuation choices uses -­‐ Comment on how these structural details add to meaning -­‐ Comment on the historical/cultural significance of the quote
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Level 4:
Lady Macbeth insults Macbeth. She says that he is a ‘coward’. This suggests
that he’s a coward. The audience is meant to think that he’s not manly but
she is. Shakespeare may have wanted to show us that Lady Macbeth was in
control.
Level 5/6:
Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth by insulting him. For example, she says that he can ‘live a coward in thy own esteem’ if he doesn’t kill Duncan. The word ‘coward’ means to be afraid. It could also suggest that he’s a coward. Shakespeare uses a type of sentence here to add more detail. The audience is meant to think Macbeth is a coward. Shakespeare may have done this to show that Lady Macbeth is in control. This is important because during Shakespeare’s time men would be in control of the relationships, not women. M A ROHIM
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